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10 of the Best Mac Apps on the Planet

A collection of hidden Mac gems that deserve your attention.You have probably heard of many of these apps, but some are absolute hidden gems that deserve more attention than they get. So take a look through the list, and I guarantee at least one of these apps you’ll

Entrepreneurship

How I Made an Extra $34,223 in Revenue During Black Friday

Over the Holidays during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I ran two promotions. Combined, they made $34,223 in sales. One was a direct email campaign to existing customers and newsletter subscribers, while the other was part of a bundle promotion with eleven other products. This article will break down

Newsletter

Issue #01 Hello World

Hello there 👋 Welcome to the first of my about-once-per-month newsletter, where I’ll be sharing: Lessons from 20 years of running a software businessMarketing experiments and resultsStats and figures, including revenue!Details about building and shipping productsExperiments in self-improvementEvery month I’ll send a round-up of the latest articles I’

Entrepreneurship

Why Keeping Your Startup Small Might Be the Best Way Forward

When you’ve been running a business for a while, and it’s finally starting to make a profit, there’s a temptation to begin hiring and find some office space so it can be a “real business”. It feels like a natural progression. Fast forward 12 months, and you’

Entrepreneurship

What to Do When an Employee Quits and You Didn’t See It Coming

I wasn’t qualified to interview or hire people. It’s not something I wanted to be responsible for. I never wanted to be a boss. I was in my early 20’s and working out of my spare room. Finally, the company started to make enough money to pay

Self Improvement

3 Challenges for January

There’s nothing like the promise of a fresh new year to kick-start some challenges. So rather than setting out some New Years resolutions that will probably fail far too soon, I’ve decided to do a few challenges for January instead. It’s just 30 days. How hard can

Entrepreneurship

Think Before You Grow Your Business

Left unchecked, a business can take on a life of its own.When you say, you run your own company, people often ask how many staff you have. The higher the number, the more impressed people seem to be, and I understand that. I fell into this trap myself. The

Technology

Buying a Commodore Amiga 30 Years Later

When I was younger, we had an Atari ST as our home computer, and while it was a great machine and I loved it dearly, I always found a lot of the games weren't quite as good as on the Amiga that a lot of my friends had. I routinely

Technology

Building a Hackintosh Pro

If Apple made a mini-tower that was upgradable and could take a full-sized graphics card (or two), I’d have purchased it in a heartbeat. However, they don’t. There’s no doubt that Apple has a refresh for the desktop market in the works. I just don’t know

Entrepreneurship

Post-Launch Depression

It’s Thursday evening. I’m feeling nervous, almost sick. I’m pacing around the kitchen, staring intently at my phone like nothing else in the world matters. Everything rests on this. Any minute now, I’ll know for sure. I’ll find out if we made it. Apple updates

Entrepreneurship

Paid, Paymium or Freemium

Choosing the right pricing strategy for any new app is hard, but it can cost you thousands of dollars in lost revenue if you choose the wrong pricing model. In this article, I will cover the three main revenue models on the App Store and explain how to make sure