Rock Bottom Blueprint Review

Web based software can have two models, software you host on your server and charge a fee to have access too or code you sell that is run on the customers server. Hosting software on your server and charging a monthly fee for use is by far one of the best business models I know! You build a simple push button solution to a common problem in your market, and as long as you keep it running you get paid.

Now most continuity programs out there like membership sites require a constant flux of content in order to keep the customers paying. To me this is not a hands off business model, you have to bust your ass to produce content every month, unless you outsource or use a forum/social format. With a ¡software as a service model all you need to do is keep your server running to collect your commission. Need an example?

How about Warrior Plus! Mike created a software system for tracking sales and commissions for WSO, and collects monthly fees from affiliates as well as commissions from WSO promotions. If you ask me I¡¦d say the only one who tops this hands off business model would be Allen Says himself!

When you host the software on your server you are free to use any technology you want. Flash, Silverlight, html 5, ajax, whatever you want to have the system built in you can find the server to run it. This however, is not the case when selling the software itself. Not to mention support becomes easier Dean Graziozi Customer support for a Rock Bottom Blueprint software product is a bitch! I have considered on many occasions to stop selling software and only sell information products just on the basis of the support I have to deal with!

I have also delayed, and cancelled products and product updates knowing they will become a support nightmare. The harder it is to use or install your software the harder it will be to provide support. Providing detailed step by step video instructions can help, but if you are considering selling a software product make sure you build usability into the tool.

Web based Rock Bottom Blueprint Review software is a bitch to sell. I have some AWESOME web based software I use to track affiliate sales, conversions, split testing, and I am even able to see what visitors are doing on my site by tracking mouse movements similar to click tale. Sounds like a great system I could sell for a lot of money.
Unfortunately the system is designed in ASP.net and hosted on a Windows server. The vast majority of sites are hosted on a linux server running apache and are not able to run .net web applications AND it gets worse.

Every server runs different versions of different software. Not only that, every Dean Graziozi server has a different configuration! It gets even worse when you have shared hosting and the owner does not have full administrative privileges to the server their site is hosted on. Assuming first of all that we are creating web based software for a linux server running apache and we are programming in php¡K which includes the vast majority of servers we need to be careful which version of php we are using, careful we are not using any libraries that the server may not have installed AND if we are requiring the use of a database we need to give the end user detailed instructions on how to set up a database or provide some automated way to set this up!!
Sounds complicated¡K and it is.

This is the reason I do not sell self hosted web based Rock Bottom Blueprint  software, with one exception Wordpress has become one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) used on the internet. WordPress is great, a database is set up when it¡¦s installed, it¡¦s open source, written in PHP, and works on almost all servers.

WordPress also has an extensive application programming interface (API) that makes it easy for php developers to add functionality. The WordPress API also give you access to the database that is installed when WordPress is installed, which means you can store data between user sessions without having to walk your end customer through the difficult process of setting up a database.

WordPress plugins and themes are the only self hosted web based software I sell in my company. Almost anything you can think of can be done with a WordPress plugin and by designing it around the WordPress API, you can be sure it will work on almost any server that has WordPress installed  Almost I hate PHP. That was my stance for the longest time until my friend who is a full time PHP developer corrected me ¡V I hate amateur PHP developers. PHP is a scripting language, meaning it is not compiled into machine code (usually).

Being an open source language and community you get A LOT of very amateur programmers, most of whom make PHP their first language and jump head first into the world of WordPress development. These are developers who never learn a lot of the important fundamentals of programming, and their code is a reflection of this.

Rock Bottom Blueprint Review – Outsourcing

I recently started hiring and outsourcing plugin development and have been SHOCKED at what I found. Everyone touts to me how you can have simple plugins built for around $300 and it¡’s true, I have one being developed right now in the Philippines for $150! There is a catch Looking over the code of a few plugins I outsourced recently I found something scary.

For starters they were designed by someone who had no concept of basic standards and object oriented design which made the code hard to dissect. Without getting to technical there are ways to program that block different parts of an application into objects, and you can replace or fix or expand on these objects to change or update the app. Normally you would also comment on the code you write to make it easier for other programmers to see what section does what, not to mention help the original developer debug if something goes wrong or a bug is found months later. Good luck sending a plugin like this to a different developer to add some functionality!

The code I had received from the outsourcer looked like it was written by 3 different people. Different naming conventions were used, different spacing, different formats, etc. Now if this was developed by a  Dean Graziozi team which was my first assumption, you would think they would have a standard way of doing things to make it easier. So for the hell of it I took a section of the code and put it into Google.

Funny enough I found the code on some random developer site! Searching another section of the code turned up a programming forum with someone asking how to build the functionality I was asking for and another user replying with the very code that is in my plugin Seems it¡¦s easy to become a full time plugin developer.

Step 1: learn the basics of PHP.
Step 2: get a stripped down framework for working with wordpress
Step 3: do a Google search or post on a programming forum to find out how to do whatever functionality the customer is asking.
Step 4: Paste this code into your frame work.
From what I can tell a lot of cheap PHP developers are c

Now this works, and for $150 you get what you pay for, but consider this: What if the developer does his Google search to figure out how to build what you’re asking and stumbles on code that is licensed and he uses it without even realizing or caring? Well recently a very well known guru in the  Rock Bottom Blueprint world used an outsourcer who did just this?

The result wasn¡¦t pretty! If you are going to sell this software as your own, you better be sure you are selling your own original code especially when it¡¦s based on an open source scripting language like PHP!!! I’d hate to completely scare you out of the software business even though it would cut down on my competition. There are legitimate, professional developers out there that you can hire for cheap.

The fly by night Google search coders are a minority, but they exist and you need to be careful before you package up and sell an application. You need someone trusted to look over the code your  Rock Bottom Blueprint Review  outsourcers provide you to know if you are dealing with a professional.

I wish I could give you a magic method to know instantly if what you are paying for is quality and legal to sell, but the truth is you need to understand what you are looking at.
Dean Graziozi software is easier to sell IMO. All you need to do is develop your apps around a particular framework and the programs will generally work for any system that support the framework. Similar to how developing your web based software around a CMS like WordPress helps to make sure it will run on MOST servers running WordPress, building your desktop around a particular framework will ensure that your software will run on any system support that rock bottom blueprint review  framework.