Ian Landsman is Starting From Scratch, November 16, 2006:
Open Source Help Desk List - Update
If you're in the market for a powerful and user friendly Help Desk solution, please take a look at my company's flagship product HelpSpot.
So on October 4th I launched the mini site Open Source Help Desk List as an experiment to see if a one page site could be both a useful resource and an effective sales tool. So far I think it’s working! The site gets decent traffic already and I’ve had several emails thanking me for providing the resource. At the same time, the site has generated sales of over $2,800. Not bad for a total cost of $50 (5 year domain name) and a few days of work.
I don’t necessarily think it will generate $3K in sales every month and a half, but I do think it can lead to some significant sales over the year. This has definitely inspired me to look around a bit more and see what other mini sites may make sense to create.
Discussion
Ian, do think a free Squidoo lens would have had the same effect?
Created by Geoff on 11.16.2006 9:23 am
I have one and it's never sent any business. It's generated 1 trial in the year or so it's been live. Granted it's not help desk specific so maybe I'll try that at some point.
Created by Ian on 11.16.2006 10:02 am
Ian, which tool/service you are used for sending opensourcehelpdesklist.com press-release?
thanks, olga
Created by olga on 11.18.2006 5:29 am
Oh man I forgot about that, that's another $200 to cost. Still a good profit though.
I used prweb. The site is a total mess but I guess it was OK.
Created by Ian on 11.18.2006 8:13 am
Ian,
I found no other way to tell you over e-mail, so here it is: You provided my a blurb on JoS for a question on development using Macs, and I've put it at
http://www.movetomac.com/productsdevelopedonapplemac
Thanks!
Created by macman on 11.20.2006 11:51 pm