Does it have to be production and not a staging environment? If that is the case, we do have a production demo account for sales reps in our app. We entered highly curated nearly 1-1 fake test to real-life data. So no hard-coded data or test-mode. It's very important that is feels 100% accurate from an experience standpoint. We created test users with emails we had access to, so they could still get emails from the platform as a demo user.
I have used Codeship Standard, CircleCI 1/2, and Semaphoreci 1. If you want a lot of flexibility I would suggest going with Circle. If you want a super cost effective option maybe look into Semaphoreci but it's more limited and less polished.
To me it signals that the community support is good on a project and I am more likely to go with a project with more stars over one that has less (that is a substitute project).
I would say so. I feel like there are very few sites I can't access when on a slow connection. Even for working remote I need almost no speed to get things done.
80% of our leads come from Facebook Ads. Typically they view the ad, click the link, request a quote, and then at that point we setup a phone call to discuss the software. We have some automated emails around this process as well and a link to our pre-recorded demo. I would say besides name of the organizations and some info we collect about their operation they are not heavily personalized. We use HubSpot to track the process.
It widely varies for me. For general contract work I shoot for $40-80/hr for Ruby on Rails or Angular 4 / React / Vue work. I tend to charge less for some languages that I am less adept with such as Python. I have about 4 years of experience now.
Plenty of times. Absolutely. I think everything comes down to process. I always make sure I do the everything in the process a few times so I fully understand how it goes, and then from that I like to draft up an SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) for the assistant.
That is a hard one, I would suggest trying to find a programmer that you trust that would even be willing to meet every week or few weeks to spend a good chunk of time with you on strategy and technical stuff. Maybe that would be open to some smaller equity arrangement with the agreement of a co-founder level if the product / service takes off. It can be very difficult to navigate the technical waters / get ripped off if you don't have a basis for how complex or difficult various tasks are.
Because it is something they can relate to and it can build trust and respect if you can be directly on their level with how you discuss various problems or handle conflict.
It may be they just want to better quantify the projects. We have been using Toggl at our company and it has really opened my eyes about how long certain tasks take. Also, I find myself hyper-focusing on some tasks now where before I would multi-task and sometimes be less effective.
We got our first 5 customers with cold emailing. It is all a numbers game with some A-B testing in my opinion. It can be very time consuming if you do not do it right, but if you do, it can work great. Granted, any "cold" sales method is going to bring in some un-qualified prospects but when you are just starting that can be a plenty fine strategy. I would suggest trying a few variations of the email, using a tool such as QuickMail (which allows you to import lists and schedule and do A-B), and making sure to send during the right times, for us that was Tuesday and Wednesday mornings for our prospects. Also, I would consider using Upwork to find a contractor to help with this process, we found a girl that collected lead emails for $4/hr. Hope this helps.
Not sure right now, we will see what happens with the lightning network and if that can help solve the speed and cost issue. As far as the price goes, hopefully it will bounce back after this shill...