Successful Software

Articles

Some of the less ephemeral articles, in alphabetical order:

• 3 Low-Competition Niches In Retail Software
• 5 great ways to waste money in Google Adwords
• 7 ways to be a healthier programmer
• 10 mistakes microISVs make
• 10 things non-technical users don’t understand about your software
• 10 questions to ask before you write a single line of code
• 13 ways to fail at commercial software
• 15 criteria for evaluating software product ideas
• 100 ways to increase your software sales in 2009
• A new front end for e-junkie
• A simple change that doubled sales
• A small experiment with LinkedIn ads
• A survey of ecommerce providers for software vendors (2009)
• A test of cost-per-actions vs cost-per-click in Google Adwords
• Advertising your software on Facebook (=Fail)
• App stores set to dominate future software sales?
• Beware upgradeware
• C++ for the next decade
• Calculating volume discounts for software
• Choosing a development ‘stack’for Windows desktop applications
• Cookie tracking for profit and pleasure
• Cost effective software registration with ejunkie
• digg vs reddit vs slashdot vs stumbleupon – who’s the daddy?
• Do customers need to see an advertisement seven times?
• Does the world *really* need yet another Twitter client, RSS reader, ToDo list or backup application?
• First impressions count
• Functional programming – coming to a compiler near you soon?
• Getting customer feedback
• Google Adwords: improving your ads
• How good are your backups?
• How much money will my software make (and what has that got to do with aliens)?
• How to find a great software product name
• If you aren’t embarrassed by v1.0 you didn’t release it early enough
• Is it worth advertising Mac software on Google Adwords?
• Interview with a cracker
• iPhone app store economics
• Is it possible to run a successful software business with a 4 hour work week?
• Lazy instantiation marketing
• Lessons learned from 13 failed software products
• Mac OS X market share accelerates in 2008
• Marketing your software through affiliates
• Moving from POP3 to IMAP
• Optimising your application
• Outsourcing artwork through 99designs.com
• Outsourcing software testing
• Pivot tables demystified
• Problem exists between keyboard and chair
• Programming in flares
• Programming with your feet
• Promoting your software
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6

• Running a microISV
• Selling software vs selling eyeballs
• Seeing your software through your customers’ eyes
• Selling your own software vs working for the man
• Selling your software in China
• Selling your software in retail stores (all that glitters is not gold)
• Setting an optimal bid price for Google CPA bids
• Shareware is dead – long live shareware!
• Should I give free upgrades for life?
• Should you offer a money back guarantee?
• Sometimes the best way to recover Windows data is Linux
• Software piracy
• Speccing my dream development PC
• Success is always one feature away
• Tips on travelling with a laptop
• The great digital certificate ripoff?
• The art, science and ethics of box shots
• The importance of targeted website traffic
• The other side of the interface
• The software awards scam
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• The truth about conversion ratios for downloadable software
• The two types of reseller
• TrialPay results
• Unskilled and unaware of it
• Using a Mac Mini for development
• Using defence in depth to produce high quality software
• What type of free trial should I offer for my software?
• Where I program
• Your harddisk *will* fail – it is just a matter of when