HI Peter and Tristran, great business idea and great start to the web platform.
My first unanswered question for me was: how are you converting the uploaded schedules to something you can send out via SMS and email? I'm guessing you have written something that parses uploaded files in various formats, but some broad details about the mechanism and more importantly, some example schedule templates that business owners can learn from or adapt to their own use might convert more new visitors to customers. I'm sure there are things workwhen won't parse and you want to try and help new users avoid that disappointment. I think your pricing is too high. I don't have the market research you had when you set these prices but my gut says it feels too high, particularly for <15 businesses. $80 works out at $5 per employee per month and you really have to deliver a lot of value to justify $5 a month. Note: I don't think offering a free trial on its own solves that problem. Many web startups don't get free trial adoption if the paid subscription they move to automatically later on is too expensive. Users figure, "why would I go to the trouble and time necessary to setup a free trial if I know it's too expensive for me later?" If payment by PayPal won't allow you to offer a free trial then you *definitely* need another payment method. Free trials are an expected part of the web services offering and you want to over-deliver — not under-deliver — on that expecation. Alternative to free trial: consider allowing people to register and upload a schedule for free with unlimited users and show them the resulting parsed schedule. Then allow them to send that schedule for free to, say, three users on that schedule (radio buttons.) That helps me persuade other people in my company that we need this tool, proves that the service works, and provides you with valuable marketing information on people and companies that you can use as a prospect list. http://notifier.workwhen.com/home/tour#section-activity needs to be cut up into separate pages, it's way too hard to navigate up and down via anchors. Centered bulleted text breaking onto a second line is just about as unreadable as unreadable can get. Finally, I got an error when trying to back my way out of the PayPal checkout at http://notifier.workwhen.com/account. I'll clear cookies later and see if that fixes it. More (much more) available from me and the team at www.pollenizer.com. This is what we do. Cheers! - alan On Dec 5, 9:39 pm, Peter Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > www.notifier.workwhen.com > > Hello people, > > A mate and I have finished coding up our little web app and are now > trying to spread the word. > > WorkWhen Notifier - is a way for business's to better distribute > their staff schedules (rosters). Business's can send us their > schedules and we will push it out to their staff via SMS and Email. > > Its a simple app but the benefits of better communication are many. > > ALL FEEDBACK IS WELCOME AND WANTED!!! > > Thanks Silicon Beach! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
