We did some improvements for our next iteration of the prototype. We included leads from twitter, modified the homepage a bit and added more data and add some basic info features for the leads. We would love your view and what other feature might help you more?
What you need is a long vacation. I would recommend you to find the right sub-ordinates/partners to take your place for the time being and plan a 2-3 week trip to a place where you can relax. :)
The whole point of building a company is that different people can do what they are best at and solve a problem. All members of an organization are a cogs in the wheel. They all need to move together to get things done smoothly. Being an entrepreneur has a lot of pressure but when you already have a company set up, with employees, with business people etc, you should focus on building strategies. Delegate more, hire the right people, apply the right management techniques which suit your work culture. It's all about having the right people under you so that you can just lead the company in the right direction.
Trust me, a vacation will have a big influence on you right now and give you a different perspective too :)
I agree, bulleting might not look so good but I think we can have a small description line below the main tag.
Keeping it simple and small does have wonderful results though. I have tried another product where we had a lot going on the homepage. Not a lot of people signed up for that. Where as in this case, a lot of people sign up. I think it's because of the simplicity of the message.
The tag lines you gave make a lot of sense! They are more attractive from a selling point of view too :)
Ah, that's what I thought cause I tried adding a tags and all too. On the Hacker News mobile app, the post link becomes click able though. Thanks again!
* In the current prototype we are not displaying any contact details as we want to validate how many people are interested in the leads. But with our first version, we are going to provide an ability to contact the lead right from the dashboard. Getting more info about the lead will be the next iteration. We will try to study what information a business owner might want regarding the leads and then carry on from there. The fields you mentioned are very important in my opinion too.
* We will add filters based on demography. We wanted to validate the whole concept and see how many business owners are actually interested. Now we will focus on getting more reliable sources for leads. A lot of facebook/LinkedIN groups have very genuine enquires. Hence, at present we only know about those which are India oriented. We will be researching for other countries now. Once we have good number of reliable sources for different countries, we will work on the demography filter.
* Thank you so much for this! This is an amazing feature and I believe can be targeted at enterprise level companies too. I mean, if I was Costa Coffee, I would definitely want to see who are unhappy with Starbucks or want coffee from our competitors.
* Fees - is a very tricky point at present. The point you made is very valid that a internet sales guy or a telesales executive can get more leads. I think we have to find a balanced price depending on the customer value proposition we provide and how valuable it is to initial businesses who sign up.
Ahan. Well, the target audience is not limited to IT service providers or designers for that matter. Even, if I own a bakery shop, I would want leads from people asking for cupcakes.
This is another challenge we faced to write the description in the best way possible so as to not focus on one vertical and alienate other businesses. What would you guys recommend? Should we write bullet points after the tag line stating:
1. Recommended for small business owners and freelancers. Ex: Developer, Designer, Event Organizer.
2. Helps you expand your services to real people enquiring about those on social networks.
If you wanted something in PHP, I would have suggested Wordpress. Its the largest and the most popular CMS out there today. I learned a lot by their methodologies and the way they do things or the they the theme architecture is built etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927274
http://leadify.in/