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Programmer Turned Marketeer

by amerkhalid
7 replies
Hi,
This is just an introduction and sharing my experiment. Programming is my main craft and I always been focused on playing with new technologies and thinking how I can turn those into a profitable business.

But now after 10 years of playing around, I am realizing that programming is my hobby. I do it for fun. But I can never dedicate enough time to finish a product for end user market or even other programmers. Sometimes I would stop working on a project because I have solved the whole problem in my head.

Anyways, recently, I started listening to different podcasts and I am changing my game plan. I bought a pre-built dating web script. It is not the best programming but it gets the job done. I am customizing it a bit, then start market it to a small niche market.

I have $100 a month budget. So far I have looked at Facebook and Google ads. Soon I will check Plenty of Fish ads.

I don't expect to get rich from this site. This is more like a year long training course in online marketing. If it brings any decent returns then I will put in effort to improve code and increase marketing budget.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks

Amer
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  • Profile picture of the author brettb
    If you're a programmer, then build things that are USEFUL. And maybe team up with someone who then knows how to MARKET your new thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Resale Rights Ninja
    Why wouldn't you want to get rich? Unless your already rich of course. Off of the top of my head I don't know anything about dating site scripts so I can't offer you any specific advice, but if you do a quick search for dating site scripts you should be able to see if there is a market for your product.

    Anyways if you do need any marketing specific advice your are definitely at the right place.
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  • Profile picture of the author codingku
    keep programming dude... you can build something useful for people
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Chin
    I was in a similar situation as you, but like like brettb said I teamed up with someone who has been studying the market. My partner has a wealth of info and contacts and has been in the game for a while. We use his knowledge and my programming skills to build a product people will want to use. Maybe try a bit of networking? Perhaps you can find someone looking to partner up and/or teach you.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    If you are going to be doing paid ads then you might want to start promoting a CPA dating offer first for a well known dating site. That way you can tweak your ads and get them working with a site you know converts well. Once you have your paid ads down you can then start sending them to your own site and testing things.
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  • Profile picture of the author troy23
    You might want to package up your programming skills and market them as tutorials, software products, videos, ebooks etc. I am a programmer myself and have made a lot of money over the years using that model.
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  • Profile picture of the author amerkhalid
    Oh I am not giving up programming. My initial post was written poorly. I work at very good company as a software engineer. No problem with my day job.

    After work I usually code again either on a fun project or some side business idea. The problem been that I can never finish any side business ideas. At one point, my friend and I partnered up but it didn't workout. I feel like wasted a lot of time programming boring stuff like user registration etc.

    So dating site is way for me to gamble with money instead of time. Learn as much as I can about marketing side of stuff. I really hate putting another 2000's style website but website is not the main focus.

    WillR, thanks for the tip. I will have to check it out.

    Troy23, you bring up a great idea. I already blog about programming but it is very disorganized. Perhaps organize it better and start creating tutorials. My first job was tutoring and it was actually very fun. Ever since I have been helping friends with programming and math. Probably should start writing useful tutorials on my blog.

    thanks everyone!
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