These are my favorite visitors. They are actually running DoyleSoft Knowledge Base on their machine and they clicked the Order link on the Menu Bar on the Main Screen.

It's a simple and effective way to gets prospects back to your site... hopefully with credit card in hand. : )

Note: I took out the visitor's IP address for privacy reasons.

Brandon

Well, as I suspected, it was very easy to implement drag and drop for file attachments. It took me about an hour. I am excited about how easy it is to use. You can literally attach 10 files to your Knowledge Base article in the matter of seconds. I also backwards tested drag and drop with Windows 98 and it works like a champ! It should work fine on any version of Windows.

It's good stuff and it's a giant leap forward in helping business owners manage their information and knowledge and that's the whole idea!

Feel free to check out the latest version @ http://doylesoft.com/download
Brandon

I first wrote about Uninstall Feedback in March of 2008. It was very easy to implement and took me no time at all.

Today I was monitoring consistent traffic from a certain location. I thought to myself: "That would be nice to get a sale today... the traffic and interest is there for a sale." Instead the opposite happened. The User un-installed but left me with a valuable piece of feedback that could be worth multiple sales all by itself.

The User pointed out that the program was easy to use but there wasn't a drag and drop or a browse button for file attachments for articles.The User was absolutely right! I went out of my way to make sure the program was as User friendly as possible but I was still forcing Users to manually type the path to a file attachment or copy and paste as if it were still the DOS days.

I looked into implementing drag and drop functionality for the window/dialog box and it turns out that it is also easy to do. Figures. I will plan on having it in the next release in a day or two.

Thanks to that one comment, it could potentially seal several sales in the near future.

Good stuff!
Brandon

Sales of knowledge base are now coming in at a pretty consistent pace. The gap between sales is narrowing. But here is something more interesting: I had a sale yesterday from the EU and today a visitor from Norway and a visitor from the UK were both on the order page for a few minutes.

That would really be something if two more sales were to come in before 9:00 AM. That would make for a pleasing day. : ) Hopefully I will be able to clear my so-called "second hurdle" of getting consistent sales before year-end and next year: simply focus on building up the business.

Exciting times.
- Brandon

Oh, my poor neglected blog... what have I done to you?

I guess my weekly post is turning more into a monthly post. Anyway, lots of things going on. The kids are keeping me busy. It's crazy getting home at 3:00 and then going full blast until the kids go to bed at 8:00. But it's crazy in a fun way. I wouldn't trade it for anything. In a change of pace, Grandma took the kids for the weekend so I will use that opportunity to do homework and nurse along the poor back yard.

Rachel is doing well. Somehow she still manages to put up with me.

Fall Semester is going OK so far. I am nearly up to my neck in midterms. I am taking 14 credits this Semester. Then, only two more classes for the Associates! MATH 1000 will be the death of me. I haven't done this stuff in 12 years!

Work is going OK. The craziness has subsided for now. Not too busy yet not too slow. Just how I like it. : )

DoyleSoft is still selling. I am tweaking the site and aiming for conversions every couple of days. I have been working on the DoyleSoft store for a year and a half, but hopefully new products are available soon.

When they are, I will make sure my readers are aware.

Well, this has turned into a pretty general post. I am still working on PHP and building out the web interface for DoyleSoft. If I have anything nifty to show off, I will post it here.

Have a good weekend!
Brandonbert

I have added a new Menu Item to the Trial Version of Knowledge Base called "Click Here To Order Now!"

When someone clicks the option, their default browser automatically opens a new page or a new tab to the order page. It was actually easy to implement and I could again kick myself for not doing it years ago. I would hate to think of the potential lost sales already from not implementing this stupidly simple feature.

Here is the code:

Private Sub mnuOrder_Click()
Dim Search
Dim BrowserString As String
Dim LaunchBrowser As String
BrowserString = "rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler "
LaunchBrowser = BrowserString + "http://doylesoft.com/order/?ref=2.9.087T-Main"
Search = Shell(LaunchBrowser, 0)
End Sub

Good stuff!

Check it out!

- Brandon

See my previous post on the Sage Newsreader.

The developer has updated Sage to version 1.4.3 and it is now compatible with Firefox 3.5.

Enjoy!

The company is doing a fundraiser today and we got an email proudly proclaiming that there is plenty of Fat Boys left for $1.00.

As if by queue we all simultaneously shouted out:

"A DOLLAR?!"

"What?! What do you think this is?! Bring it to our desks for free!"

My boss suddenly emerged from his cubicle and informed us that he will go get us one.
I think he just wanted us to shut up. : )

- Brandonbert

Anyone who knows me knows that I am VERY stubborn and I simply get stuck in my ways. So imagine my horror when I upgrade to Firefox 3.5 and my favorite newsreader Sage stopped working. (I know, I know, I'm sure that in 2009 there are better newsreaders out there...)

I finally got fed up with it. I decided to fix it myself. For the convenience of the Internet community, I uploaded the re-compiled Firefox Extension (XPI file) so you may install it. I hope all goes well.

It's worth noting that I don't know anything about the code or workings of Sage. I simply changed one line of code.

Here you go:

http://doylesoft.com/Sage1.4.2ff3.5fix.xpi


- Brandonbert