December 2011
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Why Do Rich People Get Even More Rich?
Opportunity, I think is the best word to describe it. While most people consider getting a job in a fortune 500 company as a rare opportunity. Rich people who were born with rich parents don’t event need to apply for a job their entire lives.
Let me first say this, I am not born rich nor wealthy. I consider myself in the middle class in Pampanga. I worked as an employee almost my entire...
November 2011
2 posts
Anonymous asked: Hi Jed, I need you to help me out. I have started a bulksms here in Ghana. I am acyually whitelabelling the service from UK. I need you to build a "free" or affordable website for me. Or if you can give me a designer who can fit my budget. I am checking tweet caddy but dont you have similar app for facebook?- Andy Adjetey, Ghana.
The Rise of the Creative Teams
I remember then when our art teacher asked us to draw something about the Philippines on an illustration board as our home work. I drew a similar mini comic of the late Larry Alcala. While most of my classmates obviously asked their parents to draw for them, or drew all the same things like mountains, rice fields and farmers.
I got the best flattery a young artist would have; my teacher took...
October 2011
4 posts
Tweet Caddy
Today, I have finally shipped my side project TweetCaddy.com in a single sentence; it’s the most advanced tweet scheduler. And I believe it’s going to send you new customers from Twitter.
This idea came from my past failed project Bodega Sale. I noticed some of the Bodega Sale users are very active on Twitter. These “users” are all Shopify store owners which by the way,...
Why Startup Weekends Don't Work
Last Friday, Oct 21 2011 The first Startup Weekend Manila was held in MINT College. This event gives an opportunity to entrepreneurs to bring their startup ideas to reality. You first pitch your idea then they’ll vote. The ones who get enough votes will get a change to “work” on their project for two consecutive days.
This is the first I’ve seen in the Philippines....
Also: Why I'm learning to code →
roybahat:
I run a company whose product is written in code, and I don’t yet speak the language. I sometimes feel like a newspaper publisher who has to take his editor’s word for it that the articles are good. You trust your people, you know you could never write the way they do, but it would still be good…
September 2011
2 posts
A Summary of My Adventure
It’s almost a month now since I posted about my experience on Bodega Sale. Where I worked on the app for 1 year on the side and it did not sell to a single user. Remember this was a web app where we usually charge a recurring monthly or yearly fee. So the customer will really give it some thought before subscribing. And when they do subscribe, they will definitely use it.
Lessons From...
August 2011
1 post
Dying App: Bodega Sale a Web-based Bookkeeping App
For the past 2 years I have continued to struggle on selling SaaS (Software as a Service) products. Although, I have been a provider for my family as a freelancer and I get to pay the rent and bills every month. But for me and for some others, entrepreneurship is just an irritating itch that I need to scratch — maybe for the rest of my life, but I’m fine with that.
Last June, I...
July 2011
2 posts
How To Embed Google Maps in your Shopify Store
I’m not sure how many Shopify store owners own brick and mortar businesses. If you do, maybe you want to show people where your store is in the city so they can have a visit and check out your items.
Embedding Google Maps is a great way to have instant directions to your customers. This will reduce customer’s confusion of your store’s address and it will make your store look...
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Free Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Online Store
I’m writing this article to give you an idea on how to drive free traffic into your online store and hopefully bring paying customers.
For many, marketing usually associate to spending money. For example, Pay Per Click Advertising or PPC. When I started using Google Adwords I spent about $70 and all I can say is that it can bring you decent traffic quickly. However having traffic...