fp2mysql: The Movie

[ryanx at bulldogsoftware.com]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:56:09PM -0400, John Esak said:

> Ryan,
> 
> Now you're thinkin'... And takin' a page from my playbook.  I've been trying
> to get folks to go the "movie" route for not only sales but documentation
> for a while now, maybe 4 or 5 years. My *whole* G/L (A/R,A/P,P/R) has a huge
> series of step by step movies as their full documentation, tutorial...
> manual, etc.  It has taken so much off my plate, and people sent nothing but
> compliments and "what a great tutorial... And so forth." over them.  I hope
...

Ouch. Well I certainly can empathize. Bulldog ODBC of five years ago sold
*1* copy and I pulled it after 6 months or so. In calculating the price
divided by the time invested I was working for about a dollar an hour. Not a
great ROI especially considering the hours, as in 9 AM to 3 AM.  

If there's anything I learned from that venture is that you need to put your
toe in the water, so to speak. If people are willing to buy into the concept
in the form of a small utility or such, then there is something you can
build on. 

This is a small market and unfortunately there aren't that many filePro 
customers that actually read the list. If you have a client list, contact me
privately. ;-)

Perhaps fP in it's future incarnation will be willing to sponsor people like
us.


> If your fp2sql helps in the construction and implementation of just what it
> is titled to do... Then I will personally be interested, and I know my

I can't say that its going to silver bullet for anyone, but I am almost
certain that it will prove to be very stable. 

> company does this sort of thing as well in different ways.  I'm sure Lee and
> Tim will look at your program, too.
> 
> Good luck, if it is anything like you usually turn out, it is probably
> fantastic.

That is quite a compliment John. Thank you very much!


-- 
Ryan Powers
Bulldog Software, Inc.
http://www.bulldogsoftware.com
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