SoftwareProjects – Serious Projects for Serious Bloggers

Yes very good job, keep good work

nice post

For small bloggers with limited or no income, this is a non starter. They should seriously look at this large segment with low priced products which will give high volumes.

The only downside to this is that I can get a full time staff of 4 web developers for just 4,000 USD a month... Course they're in India but that's the rate I've been quoted before.

STEEP STEEP STEEP!! Maybe I'll just make myself some money first :cry:

John, can you find out when tthe blogger software is going to be implemented into this "Software Project" and maybe they can lower the Monthly fee too. :wink:

John, can you find out when tthe blogger software is going to be implemented into this "Software Project" and maybe they can lower the Monthly fee too.

How many hours of work per month is provided for $495?

You can outsource to places like India and get some pretty good work done for $5 - $6 per hour.

Mark

Thank you Steve!

How about providing an example of what 5 billable hours can provide? Anything substantial?

With the internet these days everyone should be able to do some self study and blog for themselves...why pay so much for someone to do it for you?

As great as having a team of people at your back is, the top sites will always have those willing to learn how to do the work themselves behind them. Nobody cares about your site as much as you do. Learn!

John, sorry for the OT comment, but I think you should post about agloco. I'm sure there are a ton of your readrs who would like an update on their situation.

Wow, how much did they pay for this plug from the Chowster?

Sign me up. :D

Anyone who thinks it is cheap to hire professionals to do things for you in the software world obviously hasn't. A good IT pro's salary alone is over $500 a day. You can easily charge $100 if you are any good.

That being said, I would have to understand the market this service is going after. The great thing about blogging is the low cost of entry. For new bloggers, such a service is impossible. For a small sized business the expense is much more palatable.

A case of sepnding a little to make a little, or spending a lot to make a lot in some peoples eyes, either way its a risk you need to consider.

I thought the same too Jonk, i`ve forgotten the post already!

That is some very audacitic enterprising 'SoftwareProjects'. I think thats way cool! Way to shoot for it, I hope you guys make it big.

$495 is $495 more than I can afford. I pass on this :)

-Mike

Is this review really $400 value?

I think the recipient has been a little short-changed here./

John should hold a contest where the winner wins a free month of this service! :lol:

I'm having an epileptic seizure. John, the ad on your RSS feed with the 120 point type red blinking letters is really really hideous. Just my two cents.

Yeah $495 is up there but its christmas time... why not?

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Sounds like a good product. The question is, is it worth that much you'd use it Mr. Chow?

Did anyone else notice that they're charging $499 for the exact same website templates that you can pick up at templatemonster.com for under $100? I'm concerned how many of their services may be repurposed and marked up like that.

Also, if you look at the "become a Software Project professional" they clearly subcontract all the work to freelancers, something you could do yourself for much less. And do you see mention of any existing clients by name? Any success details given that you can actually track?

John's income (based on October's numbers) is just enough that it makes sense to pay someone else $100 bucks an hour to do something rather than to do it himself. But that's no excuse to spend stupidly. This is an old-school model designed to bleed big companies of their web budgets ($1,750 a month to manage a PPC campaign?!) but an experienced web entrepreneur should know better. The #1 rule for web business is DON'T BE LAZY! Figure it out for yourself and you won't be beholden to some collective of freelancers charging an exorbitant monthly fee.

I totally agree that this service sounds like it is geared more towards bloggers who are already established, and that it would be very difficult for the newbie blogger to afford this. Then again, maybe this newbie blogger could already be quite well-off financially and this service could help jump-start his or her blog. The company's growth is pretty impressive.

John, I would love to have you review my site, but not write about it, that way you could give me some advice. Maybe instead of asking for people to pay for reviews, ask if they want you to just give them some advice on their blog(still pay ofcourse). If I knew that my blog would truely gain from this product I would buy it.

I am not much biased. May be useful for marketing websites that makes good money. Not for blogs for sure. $495/month is a high price tag! Not many blogs make 495 per month.

$495/month is quite a bit of money. Obviously it for established bloggers like John Chow.

Whoa. expensive. Maybe in time a majority of us can afford this...

Yea, I agree too expensive.

Great program but the monthly fee is quite expensive for a newie.

Dang $495 per month! I'd have to be making some serious buck before I'd use an ongoing service such as that.

Wow, thats a lot of money per month.
For a newbie blogger like me its certainly out of the question.
What I would like to know is it worth the money?
Regards.

Hmm. So do they charge you extra for doing PR etc on top of the $49.95 per month? It seems like the business model is unclear and the software hasn't gone through enough usability testing since you couldn't find out how to sign up for the package! Maybe account you were setup with is already the $49.95 account.

Over $100 per hour? Yeah right...

This is a great service! Any idea how much the PER HOUR cost is for programming?