.NET Micro-ISV (or Get Rich Working from Home!)
Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, Thurs June 4th to hear Joe Albahari present on using your .NET skills to write a program to sell over the Internet. Sound hard? It's easier than you think! This presentation will cover what Joe learned in setting up a successful Micro-ISV (Independent Software Vendor), including:
· Idea incubation - what works and what doesn't
· Marketing strategies, bootstrapping and how to get free advertising, including a simple trick to increase your sales 30%
· Traps in dealing with domain experts & business partners
· How programming best practices differ for Micro-ISVs
· A rarely-used but easy deployment mechanism to maximize downloads
· Handling automated payments
· Designing a licensing system that works
· Web site design and search engine optimization
· Monetization options & establishing a price, and why a micro-ISV does well in a recession
TOPIC: .NET Micro-ISV
DATE: Thursday, June 4th, 5:30pm
VENUE: Excom, Ground Floor, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST: Free. All welcome
Joe Albahari is author of C# 3.0 in a Nutshell, and inventor of LINQPad - the popular querying utility. He's been programming for 20 years in a variety of industries and has been involved in two startups. His web site is www.albahari.com.
There will be door prizes of a 10-user team license for LINQPad Autocompletion (courtesy of Joe) and a ReSharper license (courtesy of JetBrains).
Try to arrive early if you want a seat!