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Do you use a CRM?

I really agree. I'm using paypal at quicklytest.it at the moment and there are 3x ways to handle the subscriptions.

Currently the customer drive their own traffic (via the guides on the website). Mechanical turk is something I've thought about, but it's not really an accurate representation of a wide market, so I'm not sure the results would have much value.

Disappointed that it didn't do that?

I'd be grateful if you could drop me a quick email to discuss? questions@quicklytest.it. Thanks again.

Great point Stavros, I believe this is the biggest source of failure for startups.

Additionally - I've added a chat box to the website (olark) if anyone wants to catch up.

Hi eskim,

It's not just startups that I'm targeting, but individuals who might have a couple of cool ideas that want to make that first step and see if they're as cool as what they thought.

Hi Bill,

thank you for the feedback.

1) I believe that a landingpage can validate and 'idea' as you can use it to gage interest, via the visitor clicking through for information, time spent on the page, number of times the visitor returns etc.

2) I think it's fairly well documented that ideas on their own don't mean anything, they have little if no value. It's the execution that counts and if quicklytest.it is the first step in execution then great! It gets you out of the door.

I personally did it for quicklytest.it as I wanted to great each of my new signups and ask them for feedback straight away.

Hi JD, Bryan,

I have thought this too, however the barrier of a higher price point was too much to stop people making that initial purchase.

I have done exactly what you have suggested and predicted revenue from a 2 month turnover.

This is no means meant to be 'startup' in the massive growth sense.

I like to build products that are useful for people. If I can earn some beer money out of it at the end of them month then great.

Hi Prodigal,

Although chrisacky flagged up some major issues in security above, there is more than one server/ domain running the system which they didn't discover. Once there is around 50 users on a server / domain I've created a new one.So thankfully chrisacky only managed to discover a small amount of users active on the service currently.

Hi,

First off let me appolgize about the sloppy coding. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer, I outsourced the programming.

The information you posted is invaluable and I'll drop you an email shortly to follow up.

It's working fine in the UK

Thank you I enabled http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-green-cache/

The numbers come from around 10,000 visitors.

Mmm, I'll take a look at the www. now!

Sorry, I'm just rebooting the sever. Looks like it just got battered!

The feedback was from techy people, but not necessarily people who know the ins and outs of startups.

That's a good point though, perhaps if I just told the end user 'Probably would work' rather than 24% overall conversion rate it might be more user friendly.

Hi Colin. Yes I agree it's a fine balance between not having a product and pretty much spamming and wanting to get out of the door with something that could be really valuable to a lot of people.

I've found that the service is really useful to those who wouldn't be able to test their ideas (not technical, not enough time etc) and I know a couple of projects that have come out of it so far that look really good. So have faith.

Mm that's a good point though, perhaps I could include something about it being suitable for 'lean startups'. Is that copyrighted I wonder?

Cool idea. It'd be good if there was some user voting in there to make it more of a chart that just one persons opinion though.

Anyone have any other ideas?

If it's getting buired in 'noise' are you sure your product isn't just noise?

Make a blog, write about what you're doing and if it's interesting you will find readers. Then ask these visitors to get involved.

The other alternative is to throw down a bunch of cash on PPC advertising.

Does anyone have any other ideas for coming up with product / startup ideas?

For sure?

Your URL isn't working.

This is a good shout, however it isn't a very scalable way to get in front of sales people.

I included this in PPC. Unless you're suggesting spamming people.

Agreed. I do need to look at a niche before I try and grow the business.

This is great. Ironic, but I'll give it a shot.

I am yes in my day job. I've been ranked as the top sales person in both the organisations I've worked in since graduating.