Archive: Web Apps

I’d like to share six very important things you should be measuring in your recurring revenue web app.

We launched TVM several months ago and it’s going (thankfully) amazingly well. After launch, the biggest challenge became the ability to identify, track, digest and act upon key metrics.

After a lot of discussion with old pros like Mike McDerment of Freshbooks (who has grown his company to 45 people and tons of profit) and a lot of Google Spreadsheet wrangling, I’ve come up with a useful blueprint for anyone running a recurring revenue web app.

I’ll explain the six key metrics first, and then give you the link to the Google Spreadsheet. You can make a copy of the sheet and modify it for your own app.

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As we announced, we’re building a new web app. (Yay!) It uses a recurring revenue model where we bill people’s credit cards every month. Here’s the flow diagram for how that process works. Hope you find it useful!

If you do want to be one of the first to get the lowdown on our new app, then just drop a mail to shaun@carsonified.com with the subject line of “I need to know” – Shaun will make sure you get all the details!

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Editors Note: We are delighted to welcome Kevin Fricovsky to the Think Vitamin team. In the first in a series of “product reviews” Kevin looks at “TeuxDeux”, a minimal to-do list web app. Read the article and then watch the 6 minute screencast.

Straight out of DUMBO (Brooklyn, New York), and the shared studio space of creators Swiss-Miss and Fictive Kin, comes what may be the hippest thing to happen to your to-do list since Merlin Man’s Hipster PDA appeared on the scene. But beware, those serious in following the GTD principles need not apply.

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