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I also agree. I've been with them for 10+ years and only had 2 or 3 issues which were solved in a few hours. Great support and an excellent company.

I remember a similar styled ad notification about a year ago for the cr-48 test in chrome & chromium dev channels.

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

First of all, congrats on getting this far. As you know, your consulting biz is a straight services play and will only grow in relation to how many employees you have. Increasing price to match demand will only get you so far (unless you're a superstar). You do have a lot of options to grow depending on what kind of work you want to do.

- Build a network and do a rev share with other freelancers with different specialities. This will allow you to offload tasks you are mediocre at and focus on what you do well. This should increase network productivity and deal flow IF you find the right people.

- Expand on the cheap. Outsource specific tasks offshore. Do not outsource entire projects. To outsource for cost, you must break down everything into small manageable pieces.

- Move into account management and client services. Find firms/other freelancers who compete on cost and distribute your work over them. Quality and profit per project will drop but you should be able to increase your project flow significantly.

IMHO the best way is to build products and move out of services.

(I've done this a few times and currently have a small network of other freelancers while I work at a bootstrapped company.)

Great work!

Could you talk more about your room concierge service? Are you automating the request procedure or does the room concierge team contact the hotels?

I'm curious what the process looks like from the hotel perspective.

fwiw, that design pattern is called lazy registration.

Not at all. The issues described in the linked post have arisen _because_ the community has grown so much and so fast over the past few years.

I think the pricing page is giving you a high ctr % because it's really the only option for a visitor to understand the product.

Perhaps you should work on your template and include a simple features page as well. CTR from features -> pricing would be more meaningful than what you have atm. The very best measure though is email subscribe opt-ins (bonus points for double opt-ins).

Although you should really have a statistically valid number of uniques to qualify the idea (a few k). Keep working on your process and generating more ideas and you'll find something with market fit!

I would use the email signup % on that page as the indicator for validity. Over 5%? Do it.

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We were in the same situation and settled for mispelledword.net while we were in dev - until we stumbled onto an auction for the word.com and picked it up for ~$2k. We were incredibly lucky though.

If you can't reach them or don't have the budget and that name is The One go with D.

The cobbler's children have no shoes.

sorry, i've hardcoded biz apis and can't release it without lots of sanitization. the rescuetime aspect of it is really simple though! they have a decent api and nice js embeddable widgets.

rescuetime. I put together a simple chrome extension which hijacks the newtab page and shows a biz dashboard + personal rescuetime stats/graphs. nothing gets you back to work harder than seeing that today was only 50% as productive as yesterday.