Bootstrapping your Website

Blue Sphere Solutions

About Me• CEO of Blue Sphere Solutions• Partner Organization with Start Garden

• Advisor Hours• Networking Events, Update Nights

Why: We love to solve problems

What: We provide elegant solutions to important business problems

How: By engaging with our customers to challenge their definition of “Minimum Viable Product”

What is worth doing, is worth doing correctly

Email: chashley@bluesphereinc.com

Twitter: @Hashley Use #StartGarden

Background Information: Beginner’s Blueprint - http://shkn.me/17cTeXT

Talking Points

Free/Low-Cost/Subscription Based Tools and Resources to help you…

• Find your customer• Run your experiments• Build your site• Build your business

About You• Name

• Story

• What are you needing to do on the internet?

• What are you hoping to learn?

• Do you know what “MVP” is and what it means?

• Do you already have a website?

• Have you been funded by Start Garden?

• Currently highest goal? Customer/Experiment/Site/Business

WorksheetNotes Cost

Notebook $1

Total: ?

Finding Your Customer

• “Cheap Domain Names”

• 99Designs/LogoTournament/LaunchRock

• No “Under Construction”. Use Percentage Complete Indicators

• A/B Testing (Unbounce.com)

• Google Adwords/Webmaster Tools/seorch.eu

• Accept Emails Everywhere, Metadata

Running Your Experiments

• IFTTT.com

• Survey Monkey

• Call Rail

• Speedy Spots

• Translation Websites

• ValidationBoard

Building Your Site

• TemplateMonster/AppSumo/TecFreaks/99Designs/Fiverr/

• Ecommerce: Shopify/Volusion/Magento/nopCommerce/VirtueMart

• Content Management: Wordpress/Joomla/Orchard CMS

• Payment Gateways: Paypal/Google/Amazon/Authorize.NET

• oDesk/Elance/Amazon Turk/TopTal/Fiverr

Building Your Site (cont)

• CaseComplete

• Axure/Balsamiq/Proto.io

• GetListed.org• Moovly.com/GoAnimate.com

• Optimizely.com

Building Your Business

• MailChimp/Constant Contact

• AppSumo/99 Designs/Fiverr

• Google Analytics, Bitly, Click through stats

• Rignite.com

• ClearSlide/SlideRocket/Prezi.com

Reference Links

Validation Boardhttp://shkn.me/1ghV0Pg

If this then that (IFTTT)http://shkn.me/1fTAo24

99 Designshttp://99designs.refr.cc/N9WX57X

Search Engine Watchhttp://shkn.me/19xIQAP

Orange Sodahttp://shkn.me/1ajO1Rb

One Hour Translationhttp://shkn.me/15YIH30

Speedy Spotshttp://shkn.me/15YILzW

TecFreakshttp://shkn.me/19y80cv

TopTalhttp://shkn.me/GM9Rni

SEORCHhttp://shkn.me/15YJ3Xv

http://prezi.com/ http://www.sliderocket.com/

http://goanimate.com/ http://moovly.com/ http://fiverr.com/

http://getlisted.org http://www.rignite.com/

Wrap-Up

• How much did you need to spend?• Q&A

Thank You

• Please complete survey

• chashley@bluesphereinc.com

• www.bluesphereinc.com

• Twitter.com/Hashley

• Next at Advisor Hours on April 22.