About a year ago, after 15 years of simply billing clients by the hour, I decided to build (and promote and sell) my own things for a change. I built an iPad app called Remembary and a fun photoblog called Starshipsstarthere.ca.
The year has been interesting: from rave reviews to PR disasters, from the front page of Hacker News to the CBC’s “”Oddities”" website, from being a big deal in Indonesia (briefly) to being mentioned in a speech by Premier Dexter, from buying Google Adwords to having a vendor table at Hal-Con.
This talk will cover all that and more: what worked and what didn’t, how my new motto “”fail early, fail often”" has led to some surprising successes, some real world numbers for site traffic and sales, some social media advice, and what happens when something goes ‘viral’ (and when it doesn’t).
Website: http://www.shindigital.comTwitter: @ajlburke