But spend a few minutes with Chance and you’ll see that he’s refined a system for dependably launching online products — profitably. In his career, he has built 7-figure email subscriber-bases and personally created products and marketing that have sold over $25 million via direct sales and marketing methods. They don’t rush out and go spend three, six, twelve months building a product. While most online companies struggle to get hits to their sites, Chance Barnett is attracting customers and racking up sales . Most people don’t know

But spend a few minutes with Chance and you’ll see that he’s refined a system for dependably launching online products — profitably. In his career, he has built 7-figure email subscriber-bases and personally created products and marketing that have sold over $25 million via direct sales and marketing methods. They don’t rush out and go spend three, six, twelve months building a product. While most online companies struggle to get hits to their sites, Chance Barnett is attracting customers and racking up sales . Most people don’t know

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals ” in which he defined “Techies” as people who are not just “early adopters” but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent.  Normals Normals (or “Muggles” as Catarina Fake called them) are people who, unlike Techies, don’t just use products simply because they’re infatuated with them and with showing the world how cool it is that they’re using the latest tech product.  They They use products because the products solve a need they have.

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Tell me a bit about your background. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn

I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan ” and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. would love to say that I’m the productivity guru.  Unfortunately Like many of you, though, I’m always struggling with productivity drains and in search of improvements. I Unfortunately my wife reads my blog and she’d log in and add comments to dispel this rumor (she keeps me honest .  Like

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. Remind me about your background Steve? I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development. It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day.

This is an article for all the service-based business out there… The benefit of a product is you are selling a thing and not your time. However a big part of a service-based business requires human involvement. So how do you turn a service into a product? The reason I push my team to document everything and turn it into a process, is because the faster and more efficiently we can do something, the more we can scale our business. And the more we can scale our business, the bigger we will get and the more valuable we will be.

Agoura Hills-based Symark , a developer of identity management and access software, said Thursday that the firm is launching a new division focused on professional services. The firm said the new service will help to reduce the risks associated with new deployment of its products. Tags: unix linux symark services software executiv Matthew S. Collier has been appointed EVP of the new practice, the firm said.

Valencia-based Arvato Digital Services , a provider of supply chain, post production, replication, and software distribution services, said this morning it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Protexis, a provider of digital software distribution tools. Tags: arvato digital services merger acquisition protexis softwar Financial terms were not disclosed. Arvato is a division of Bertelsmann AG.

San Diego-based Continuous Computing , a provider of telecom and wireless software, disclosed today that the firm is launching a new solutions and services business. Continuous Computing previously licensed its software to wireless hardware firms, who would implement it in their products. The firm said the new service comes as it finds that network equipment manufacturers are finding it difficult to meet "aggressive" The firm said the new solutions-focused business will help deliver customized, fully-integrated applications to network equipment providers. Tags: services software