upgradeind

Thanks for the insight about email addresses, I hadn't considered that. I know from personal experience that I usually get new addresses but rarely abandon old ones.

I wonder if providing the option to use a phone number OR an email address to receive the code be a good fail safe?

looks nifty, will need to try it out a bit then get back to you

How the hell did you get get somebody to give you money. I have a product but no money, want to trade places?

yeah, affiliate marketing is generally more trouble than it's worth for a business my size, at least for the moment. I've just heard too many horror stories.

I guess what I ultimately want is a "salesman-ish" cofounder to do help with the business side and marketing, while I crank out what my customers want.

Eh I look at it like this: if a sales person is confident in their abilities in social marketing/online ads, it would be a great deal for them because they're getting in to it late in the game after everything else, including the board is designed on in stock. They don't have to worry about it being vaporware, etc.

Hey thanks for the tips, I'll check this out. I tried adwords, saw absolutely no ROI after lots of experimentation.

Hmm those are good ideas. At the moment, a rather strange side effect of having these boards mass produced is that the completed boards are cheaper than the boards + parts separated. So I'd actually make much less money selling deconstructed kits.

But yeah it's kind of strange, I frequently hear complaining that start ups can often seem to be marketing people looking for a technical founder to deliver their product on a silver platter. For me, it's just the opposite. I've got the product now I just need somebody to help put it on the map.

Anyone interested in checking out the kickstarter campaign that was successful, there are lots of photos and a backstory: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/upgradeindustries/boardx...