As always, these founder posts are more brain dumps than edited articles. I apologize if the following is difficult to read. Menyu Struggles Another long stretch since my last post, but as always hustling as hard as ever. Menyu, our online platform for finding restaurant menus, has been holding its own during the coronavirus. We’ve…
June 24th. A long time since my last entry. As you read this, please excuse poor grammar. I do proof read, but this is a journal entry – more brain dump than crafted article. Good morning and happy Saturday. My wife and I are traveling to the beach today (Geneva-on-the-lake in northeast Ohio) for one…
Notify Next Startup Saas A lot going on recently. This morning, I finished all features for NotifyNext (waitlist startup for barbershops) that are needed for launch and moved them to the Staging server. We’ll now thoroughly test the software and consider launching if it tests well. In the meantime, I’m going to work on fixing…
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted an update, so I wanted to make sure I get down what I’ve been up to the last month. Kevin and I have joined another startup that is a SAAS product for barbershops. Kevin’s friend had paid a developer to design and build the initial product and has been…
It is Wednesday evening and I’m feeling a bit burnt out. I worked (my job) until almost 6pm, just got done mowing the yard, and am hungry and tired. Earlier in the week I wrote and posted an article on how to integrate a PHP website with a Mailchimp email list using CURL and Mailchimp’s…
Getting ready to go to the post office this morning and mail 18 fridge magnets. We send each person that signs up for our newsletter a free refrigerator magnet. This week we had 15 signups in Ohio, 1 in Indiana, 1 in Vermont, and 1 in Colorado. I finished my latest blog post and published…
Another busy week working on the startup. I finished and published my latest article Wednesday night. It’s titled SEO Copywriting: A Practical SEO Example. It covers how to optimize your article for SEO and the article itself works as the reader’s template to learn. I think it will help a lot of people understand the…
Published an Article This morning, I finally finished and published a 3k-word article How to start an online marketplace. This post covers the marketplace business design and how to increase your chances of starting a successful online marketplace. The marketplace is a difficult business to launch because of it’s complex pricing, intense competition, and marketing…
In this post, I’m going to review the concepts of starting an online marketplace. More appropriately, how to create an online platform that serves a market. We won’t cover the actual building of a marketplace. Rather, we’ll cover the business model – the design for the successful operation of the business, identifying products and services,…
The last few days have been really busy. I’ve reviewed / graded several menus for Menyu. I also entered 5 or so menus. I wrote and just posted an article about DreamHost. I’ve used them to host my websites and online businesses since 2004. We’re an affiliate of theirs, so I thought it good to…