Comments on: ViEmu Marketing Week http://blog.ngedit.com/2006/05/29/viemu-marketing-week/ A blog on the development of the NGEDIT text editor Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: J http://blog.ngedit.com/2006/05/29/viemu-marketing-week/#comment-5404 J Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:28:38 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2006/05/29/viemu-marketing-week/#comment-5404 Tam, thanks for sharing your experience. I apologize for not getting back to you earlier. I plan to release 2.0 in a few days, which should help with sales, and I plan to widen the catalog later on... hopefully, all the marketing work together with the product improvements will help. Best luck with your product, Jon Tam, thanks for sharing your experience. I apologize for not getting back to you earlier. I plan to release 2.0 in a few days, which should help with sales, and I plan to widen the catalog later on… hopefully, all the marketing work together with the product improvements will help.

Best luck with your product,

Jon

]]> By: Tam Hanna http://blog.ngedit.com/2006/05/29/viemu-marketing-week/#comment-4777 Tam Hanna Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:45:37 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2006/05/29/viemu-marketing-week/#comment-4777 Hi, I can share a similar experience. I am a little ISV marketing Palm OS stuff and blogging about the Palm OS, Staff, IT world and Micro ISVness - but lets get back to topic. I have a product caled Binary Clock that is in a similar situation as is yours. Its old web site was www.tamoggemon.com, and I eventually moved it over to www.palmbinaryclock.com. I added download buttons, more screenshots,... and sales immediately went up. For a small shack, the web site is the number one selling point(dont rely on your ESD...ever) - so getting it higher on google is a must do, as is increasing download rates(huge buttons). Analyst feedback made me add the Reading button, and all of that at next to no cost. I didnt have the time to write about this on TamsPalm yet, but will do eventually for sure! Best regards and thanks for motivating me Tam Hanna Hi,
I can share a similar experience. I am a little ISV marketing Palm OS stuff and blogging about the Palm OS, Staff, IT world and Micro ISVness - but lets get back to topic.

I have a product caled Binary Clock that is in a similar situation as is yours. Its old web site was http://www.tamoggemon.com, and I eventually moved it over to http://www.palmbinaryclock.com.

I added download buttons, more screenshots,… and sales immediately went up. For a small shack, the web site is the number one selling point(dont rely on your ESD…ever) - so getting it higher on google is a must do, as is increasing download rates(huge buttons). Analyst feedback made me add the Reading button, and all of that at next to no cost.

I didnt have the time to write about this on TamsPalm yet, but will do eventually for sure!

Best regards and thanks for motivating me
Tam Hanna

]]> By: J http://blog.ngedit.com/2006/05/29/viemu-marketing-week/#comment-1972 J Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:42:07 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2006/05/29/viemu-marketing-week/#comment-1972 Thanks a lot for the praises. Indeed, it takes some effort not to concentrate on kodumi. But, on the other hand, I find the thrill of actually having a product "out there" and having happy customers a necessity. You're right that the actual editing shown there is not very compelling. I didn't want something too fast as it may be distracting, but it's actually not clear at all except for vi diehards. I'm working in something better though. I'll post about it as I get closer to it. Thanks again! Thanks a lot for the praises. Indeed, it takes some effort not to concentrate on kodumi. But, on the other hand, I find the thrill of actually having a product “out there” and having happy customers a necessity.

You’re right that the actual editing shown there is not very compelling. I didn’t want something too fast as it may be distracting, but it’s actually not clear at all except for vi diehards.

I’m working in something better though. I’ll post about it as I get closer to it.

Thanks again!

]]> By: /AITOR http://blog.ngedit.com/2006/05/29/viemu-marketing-week/#comment-1960 /AITOR Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:27:14 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2006/05/29/viemu-marketing-week/#comment-1960 I find the new main page much more appealing than the old one, good job! The animated demo gives some life to the page, but i find it difficult to follow what i'm seeing there. Well, given the fact that the only vi command i know is ":q!" this is not a big surprise, but i believe that even vi freaks could eventually feel confused. In the future, if you have some nice features to show you could try a screencast as seen on RubyOnRails or TextMate. Also i'm very glad about your plans of releasing another product before the long awaited Kodumi. The development on these "secondary" products shows that you have a good and realistic business plan. It must not be very easy to focus on these not so "interesting" products instead of having more fun working in Kodumi. But you have realized that although not having so much fun these products are giving you good things... money, business experience, people attention, and above all motivation. I have the strong feeling that you are moving forward towards a successful ISV. Keep on! I find the new main page much more appealing than the old one, good job! The animated demo gives some life to the page, but i find it difficult to follow what i’m seeing there. Well, given the fact that the only vi command i know is “:q!” this is not a big surprise, but i believe that even vi freaks could eventually feel confused. In the future, if you have some nice features to show you could try a screencast as seen on RubyOnRails or TextMate.

Also i’m very glad about your plans of releasing another product before the long awaited Kodumi. The development on these “secondary” products shows that you have a good and realistic business plan. It must not be very easy to focus on these not so “interesting” products instead of having more fun working in Kodumi. But you have realized that although not having so much fun these products are giving you good things… money, business experience, people attention, and above all motivation.

I have the strong feeling that you are moving forward towards a successful ISV. Keep on!

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