Let’s be honest. Sales of Mini-Compressor have been steady, but what we really want is 4 bazillion people to buy a copy and tell 2 friends. Then we can have bags with dollar signs on them! And build our dream garage_*_.
We’ve been working our little brains to think of ways to market our flagship product, on a basement level budget, and this is what we’ve come up_**_
[Read More]SaturdayMP has been around for a long time. The concept of a weekend software company is how our friends and acquaintances know us (dreamers). Sure, we incorporated just over 2 years ago, but the name has been around for longer in our circles. This past winter, Chris had a few opportunities to see some familiar faces and catch them up on our ‘latest venture’. Imagine our embarrassment when he had to 1) borrow a pen to 2) write down his contact info on the back of a gas receipt. Seriously! Doesn’t this dude have a business card? That was my next project.
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I was just talked into and/or talked my friends into purchasing Magicka. That reminded me I had posted Part 1 of “How the Gold Master was Delayed” and I should look for Part 2. It’s nice to see a humorous look at a very stressful time for both the developer and the client.
I just signed up for PayPal’s new Micropayments. PayPal seems to be rolling this out slowly as you have to sign-up and then you will be notified in 2 days if you are accepted or not. In theory it should save us a couple pennies every-time we sell a copy of Mini-Compressor. The fixed cost per transaction is reduced from $0.30 to $0.05 but the percentage cost goes up from 2.9% to 5%.
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