On our recent trip to Boston for the Business of Software Conference, we took a side trip to the Hallowe’en capital of America – Salem, MA. There we saw a real piece of clever marketing, a real noble claim. We saw the storefront of the Official Witch of Salem! Imagine that! It opened my eyes to the possibilities. Saturday Morning Productions, the official business of the basement! Mini-Compressor, the official compressor of photos! Chris and Ada, your official Get Stuff Done team!
Blogging, facebooking, tweeting, oh my
Posted November 4, 2011 by AdaCCCategories: Business Side, Fun
Tags: More Work, Pop, Rap, Rock, Whatevah
When music videos first came out, I think music* stars thought this would be a clever way to market their music – you know, appeal to the visual learners. I don’t think they thought it would essentially quadruple their workload – learning ‘acting’ parts/dance moves – not to mention hiring of directors, writers, models, dancers.
While we don’t make any music videos at Saturday MP, I can’t help but relate to this model and blame the Internet for making us more work. Sure, we sell Mini-Compressor on the Internet. We market on the Internet. We look up movie times on the Internet. We love the Internet. It has made us money, but it has made us more work too.
It’s no longer good enough for us to have an awesome software product. Now we have to deal with SEO (I thought that was CEO spelled funny) and AdWords. Not to mention blogging semi-regularly so visitors to our site don’t think we’re defunct. And don’t get me started on FaceBook and Twitter.
Think about the last time you hunted for a plumber. If it didn’t have e-mail, a website and fancy graphics, did you automatically discount it as not a good plumber and went to the next guy? How about restaurant? Same thing? No menu online? Skip it.
There’s so much pressure!
If you’ve come here to check out Mini-Compressor, here’s the final word. It’s a great product. We love it. We use it. Tell a friend!
If you’ve come here to check out Chris or Ada, we’re legit too.
Thanks for paying attention.
* pop, rock, rap, whatevah
Developper’s Hours
Posted October 7, 2011 by AdaCCCategories: Business Side, Fun, Software Development
Tags: Adorable Daughter, Afternoon Naps, Retirement
There’s a barber shop in our neighbourhood. He’s recently cut his hours. I’ve never met him before but I imagine he’s near retirement and would like to spend his hard earned money on trips and precious time with the grandkids. I kinda imagine him to be like the Wealthy Barber. Anyway. He cut his hours. He’s only open limited hours 4 days a week. Ironically, his shop is next to a former bank. I got a few laughs when I told Chris it would be funny if we could get pictures of the new barber’s hours next to the bank’s hours.
Here at Saturday MP, we don’t keep banker’s (or barber’s) hours. Being a developper, Chris naturally gravitates to odd hours. And odd habits. Plus, he’s an early riser. Me? I’m a night owl. My productivity is highest in the mid-afternoon, around the time Adorable Daughter gets off school, or near home time if I was in a traditional office setting. Doh! Chris tries to take an after-lunch nap whenever he can. And, when it comes down to it, if there’s a deadline or something pressing, we’ll put in late hours. And, who can forgot our namesake? Saturday Mornings!
Moving Pains
Posted September 29, 2011 by Chris CCategories: Support
Yesterday, September 28, we physically relocated our website in cyberspace. My apologies if you had trouble viewing the website yesterday during the move. We ran into some trouble with setting up our forwarding address and some people got sent to the non-existent old website address. Everything should be sorted out by now but if you are still having trouble viewing the site please let us know at support@saturdaymp.com.
Preferred Methods of Payment
Posted September 15, 2011 by AdaCCCategories: Fun
Tags: Cha-Ching, Happiness
Let’s get this straight. If anyone wants to give us money, we’ll gladly take it. We’d be even happier if it was money for the sale of Mini-Compressor, but we’re not too picky.
We currently accept payment through all major credit cards as well as Paypal, though an account is not required. We’ve toyed with alternative ideas. And by alternative, we really mean alternative. Like, big fat novelty cheques:
It's signed, it's good!
Or a cloth bag with a dollar sign on it:
Re-usable Bag
