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Patrick McKenzie / patio11 of Kalzumeus Software
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I am thinking of starting my own mISV. Any advice? Scads. Either send me an email with specific questions or just start reading the archives. I rather recommend starting at the back and continuing forward. The easiest way to do this is to go to my very first post and use the Next/Previous buttons at the bottom of every post.
Related pages
Pieter Levels / @levelsio ← Pieter was heavily inspired by Patrick.
Articles
2006.06.27 - Kalzumeus.com - Dev Journal: First Three Days in the Trenches
2006.06.27 - Kalzumeus.com - From Design to Market In Eight Days Or Less
2006.06.27 - Kalzumeus.com - The Original Conception through Release In 7 Days Story
2006.06.28 - Kalzumeus.com - The Pros and Cons of Java for uISV
2006.06.28 - Kalzumeus.com - Development plan for the rest of the week
2006.06.29 - Kalzumeus.com - Unveiling The Software & Market
2006.06.30 - Kalzumeus.com - Introducing the Bingo Card Creator website
2006.06.30 - Kalzumeus.com - From Visitor to Downloader to Purchaser
2006.06.30 - Kalzumeus.com - Unexpected Expenditure & Great Marketing Idea
2006.07.01 - Kalzumeus.com - Why Even One Man Teams Should Use Source Control
2006.07.02 - Kalzumeus.com - So I Hit The Big Red Button And Went Away For Six Hours…
2006.07.02 - Kalzumeus.com - Bingo Card Creator By the Numbers
2006.07.03 - Kalzumeus.com - Yahoo Advertising vs. Google Advertising
2006.07.03 - Kalzumeus.com - Must Not Get Blinded By The Trees…
2006.07.05 - Kalzumeus.com - I Just Made (A) Front Page of Google
2006.07.07 - Kalzumeus.com - Hustling for development dollars on eBay
2006.07.10 - Kalzumeus.com - Nice Weekend Camping, Plans for This Week
2006.07.11 - Kalzumeus.com - Conversion Rate Steadily Improving
2006.07.14 - Kalzumeus.com - Getting started with eSellerate
2006.07.20 - Kalzumeus.com - I am really starting to hate web development
2006.07.21 - Kalzumeus.com - Five Programs I Will Eventually Donate $20 To
2006.07.24 - Kalzumeus.com - If you're coming here via Google…
2006.07.26 - Kalzumeus.com - Another Payment Processor To Look At
2006.07.27 - Kalzumeus.com - From "Minimize CPC" to "Maximize Conversions"
2006.07.27 - Kalzumeus.com - Re-evaluating My Opinion of YSM
2006.07.27 - Kalzumeus.com - Drop-Dead Simple Update Checking
2006.07.27 - Kalzumeus.com - Lesson: Check To Make Sure You Have Uploaded The Correct Installer
2006.07.28 - Kalzumeus.com - Google's Lawyers Admit To gmail Privacy Leak
2006.07.29 - Kalzumeus.com - And back to your regularly scheduled programming…
2006.07.29 - Kalzumeus.com - Legitimate Organic Searches Eclipse PPC
2006.07.29 - Kalzumeus.com - 10 minute tweaks to boost your conversion
2006.07.30 - Kalzumeus.com - On-page SEO for Small Companies
2006.08.03 - Kalzumeus.com - Semi-Offtopic: The Passion of the Customers
2006.08.03 - Kalzumeus.com - Support Does Not Scale. Customer Service Does.
2006.08.05 - Kalzumeus.com - Bingo Card Creator 1.03 Released
2006.08.05 - Kalzumeus.com - Peeking Over Your Customers' Shoulders
2006.08.06 - Kalzumeus.com - A Love Note To My Favorite Productivity App. Ever.
2006.08.08 - Kalzumeus.com - The (Trial Downloads) Numbers Game
2006.08.08 - Kalzumeus.com - Don't Let Java/.NET Deployment Scare You
2006.08.08 - Kalzumeus.com - Early Results of Auto-Submission Experiment
2006.08.08 - Kalzumeus.com - I'm Reviewed On A High Traffic Web Site!
2006.08.11 - Kalzumeus.com - Everybody Say Hiya To the New Guy
2006.08.11 - Kalzumeus.com - Tweak Your Installer, Double Your Sales
2006.08.13 - Kalzumeus.com - Ten Reasons Why Most Internet Writing Is Terrible
2006.08.15 - Kalzumeus.com - You Can Probably Stand To Charge More
2006.08.23 - Kalzumeus.com - If Three of Your Computers Burned Up In A Week…
2006.08.23 - Kalzumeus.com - Open Source vs. uISVs — Some Myths That Need To Die
2006.08.24 - Kalzumeus.com - I Took My Own Advice… And It Paid Off
2006.08.26 - Kalzumeus.com - The Visual Impact Stock Icons Make
2006.08.30 - Kalzumeus.com - Another Hosted Services Success Story
2006.08.31 - Kalzumeus.com - How much content does your website have?
2006.09.01 - Kalzumeus.com - How NOT to do your license key checking
2006.09.05 - Kalzumeus.com - Everything You Need To Know About Registration Systems
2006.09.07 - Kalzumeus.com - Writing a Customer-Focused Blog
2006.09.10 - Kalzumeus.com - Once Is Chance, Twice is Coincidence, Third Time Is A Pattern
2006.10.02 - Kalzumeus.com - Undergoing Massive Spam Attack Today
2006.10.02 - Kalzumeus.com - Object Lesson on Blogging for your Business
2006.10.04 - Kalzumeus.com - Stock Market Bingo, or, Investing for the uISV
2006.10.09 - Kalzumeus.com - Selling Software To People Who Don't Buy Software
2006.10.10 - Kalzumeus.com - Accounting For Lazy Programmers
2006.10.11 - Kalzumeus.com - Blatant Plug For A Program I Like
2006.10.22 - Kalzumeus.com - Bingo Card Creator Goes International
2006.10.26 - Kalzumeus.com - A Handy Little Tool You Might Not Know About
2006.10.29 - Kalzumeus.com - If One File On Your Web Server Gets Corrupted…
2006.11.01 - Kalzumeus.com - Free PR8 Link To Your Website (Shh, Keep It A Secret)
2006.11.02 - Kalzumeus.com - Trial Installer Corrupted, Again
2006.11.06 - Kalzumeus.com - The Simple Joys Of Living In Rural Japan
2006.11.16 - Kalzumeus.com - The Busyness/Business Continues
2006.11.16 - Kalzumeus.com - Using Analytics To Improve Your Web Design
2006.11.16 - Kalzumeus.com - Payloadz + Google Checkout = … ?
2006.12.02 - Kalzumeus.com - Blogging As Professional Promotion
2006.12.05 - Kalzumeus.com - Things You Shouldn't Worry About
2006.12.13 - Kalzumeus.com - I Am Oddly Motivated By Free Money
2006.12.13 - Kalzumeus.com - Got Invited To Beta Google Split Testing Product
2006.12.28 - Kalzumeus.com - So For Those Of You Investing Your Profits…
2007.01.15 - Kalzumeus.com - Already Confirmed Paypal Email Address But Can't Withdraw Money
2007.01.20 - Kalzumeus.com - Effects Of Purchase Page Reorganization
2007.01.25 - Kalzumeus.com - 5 things you don't know about me
2007.01.30 - Kalzumeus.com - Amusing Mac Java Niggles and Incompatibilities
2007.01.30 - Kalzumeus.com - Do You Understand Your Market Cycle?
2007.01.31 - Kalzumeus.com - January 2007 Sales, Stats, and Strategy
2007.02.04 - Kalzumeus.com - Bingo Card Creator (CD) gets a new look
2007.02.05 - Kalzumeus.com - Rates At Which Shareware Customers Request Refunds
2007.02.07 - Kalzumeus.com - Google (Finally) Lets You See Backlinks
2007.02.14 - Kalzumeus.com - MicroISV on a Shoestring Reader
2007.02.16 - Kalzumeus.com - How To Deal With Abusive Customers
2007.02.18 - Kalzumeus.com - Revenue Growth Is A Wonderful Thing
2007.02.19 - Kalzumeus.com - The Photo Doesn't Quite Do It Justice
2007.02.22 - Kalzumeus.com - Am I Fanatical About Customer Service?
2007.02.24 - Kalzumeus.com - AdCenter Actually Performs Quite.12.ntly
2007.02.26 - Kalzumeus.com - Google vs. Paypal — Customer Preference
2007.03.06 - Kalzumeus.com - Note to those using Inno Setup…
2007.03.07 - Kalzumeus.com - Always Dangerous Making Predictions Early…
2007.03.14 - Kalzumeus.com - How Much Time A uISV Spends On Customer Support
2007.03.21 - Kalzumeus.com - Let Me Save You $30+ On Your Taxes
2007.03.23 - Kalzumeus.com - Market/Pain Selection for Kalzumeus
2007.03.28 - Kalzumeus.com - "Thats Funny, No One Has Bought a CD In Weeks"
2007.03.30 - Kalzumeus.com - Hideho, Readers of "Neat New Things"
2007.04.01 - Kalzumeus.com - March Stats and a note of thanks
2007.04.14 - Kalzumeus.com - I'm Glad *I* Don't Compete With Google…
2007.04.14 - Kalzumeus.com - Lightbox — Quick, Pretty Screenshot Previews
2007.04.25 - Kalzumeus.com - I Do Not Normally Carry Press Releases…
2007.04.27 - Kalzumeus.com - Busiest Day For Customer Support Ever
2007.04.28 - Kalzumeus.com - Kalzumeus Hits 25% Feature Complete
2007.05.01 - Kalzumeus.com - I Love It When People Fix My Problems
2007.05.04 - Kalzumeus.com - Out With The Old, In With The New (Buttons)
2007.05.04 - Kalzumeus.com - Why Your uISV Should Have A Blog
2007.05.10 - Kalzumeus.com - Insomnia Leads To Download Page Redesign
2007.05.10 - Kalzumeus.com - Google Analytics Redesign — More Web2.0, Less Useful
2007.05.12 - Kalzumeus.com - Minor Usability Errors In Checkout Funnel = You Lose Lots Of Money
2007.05.16 - Kalzumeus.com - 65,000 spams on the wall, 65,000 spams…
2007.05.19 - Kalzumeus.com - More Web Site Tweakage (Link Colors, Download Buttons)
2007.05.26 - Kalzumeus.com - Community-oriented Marketing — Forums, Usenet, Mailing Lists, etc
2007.05.29 - Kalzumeus.com - A Note About Startups Outside the Valley
2007.05.30 - Kalzumeus.com - Ranking For An Arbitrary Organic Search Query
2007.06.07 - Kalzumeus.com - Spending Money, Incurring Headaches
2007.06.07 - Kalzumeus.com - Programming Productivity Up By 10%… Yowza
2007.06.17 - Kalzumeus.com - Kalzumeus — The What, The Why, and a bit of The When
2007.07.02 - Kalzumeus.com - Happy Birthday, Bingo Card Creator
2007.07.06 - Kalzumeus.com - Conflict of Interest: Payment Processors vs uISVs
2007.07.09 - Kalzumeus.com - Freeware Can Be Profitable, Apparently
2007.08.23 - Kalzumeus.com - Marketing A Superhero.11.l (Web Admin Hackery Galore)
2007.09.01 - Kalzumeus.com - Best Single Day Ever, Plus.08.st 2007 Stats
2007.09.08 - Kalzumeus.com - Using Google Website Optimizer Safely
2007.09.13 - Kalzumeus.com - One of My Competitors Owes Me A Favor
2007.09.15 - Kalzumeus.com - Preliminary uISV Survey Results Up
2007.09.16 - Kalzumeus.com - Its A Small, Small World These Days
2007.09.21 - Kalzumeus.com -.12.ptive AdSense Ads Worse Than Click Fraud
2007.09.29 - Kalzumeus.com - Google's Conversion Optimizer… Rocks
2007.10.03 - Kalzumeus.com - Before I Try RentACoder… [Edit: Got My Help, Thanks!]
2007.10.03 - Kalzumeus.com -.09.ember 2007 Stats, Or, You Make $1k a Month on WHAT!?
2007.10.07 - Kalzumeus.com - Don't Make My Really Elementary SEO Mistake
2007.10.20 - Kalzumeus.com - Firebug — Pretty Darn Good CSS Tool
2007.10.20 - Kalzumeus.com - Need To Borrow A Mac User For A Minute
2007.10.22 - Kalzumeus.com - Developing Linkbait For a Non-Technical Audience
2007.11.06 - Kalzumeus.com -.10.ber 2007 Stats — $2,000 in sales
2007.11.10 - Kalzumeus.com - Conversion Optimizer: AdWords, Done Right
2007.11.19 - Kalzumeus.com - A Side-Project You May Be Interested In
2007.11.23 - Kalzumeus.com - What the Duplicate Content Penalty Looks Like
2007.11.26 - Kalzumeus.com - Because You Can't Quite Get Enough Transparency…
2007.11.29 - Kalzumeus.com - Fantastic Article on SEO For Bloggers
2007.12.02 - Kalzumeus.com - Six days. Twenty Dollars. One New Business.
2007.12.22 - Kalzumeus.com - Merry Christmas to other uISVers!
2008.01.13 - Kalzumeus.com - Year 2007 Stats and Year 2008 Goals
2008.01.13 - Kalzumeus.com - Need Services Of Web Design Freelancer
2008.01.17 - Kalzumeus.com - A Little Thing That Made My Day