I created a web application - looking for marketers

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MrMarsh

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Hi,

I heard about this site on reddit. I have a web application I want marketed. I'm thinking about doing affiliate marketing, and I'm trying to figure out price-points for the product because web marketing is new to me.

The program places a tracking bug in word documents so you can see who's reading them. I created it so I could know who was reading my resume when I sent it out to companies. I believe others would be interested in knowing this too, because it is extremely frustrating when you send your resume off and it feels like its going into a black-hole never to seen again.

So, what do you guys think would be a good price-point for this application? I'm willing to pay up to 50% or more per sale and residuals if they sign up for a rebilling subscription plan.

Looking for some advice from the experts.

Thanks
 


It's always good to have potential employers think you are a hacker.
 
Sounds like something you'd put on clickbank. Check out clickbank.com
 
I heard if you have prices ending in 7, people buy the shit out of it.

Seriously, this may not be the best idea- because of it's actions, it will probably get flagged by antivirus software, especially on a corporate LAN, so you're actually hurting someone's chances when their resume gets deleted before anyone ever reads it.
 
@kingfish: Thanks for the link. Clickbank looks like a great idea and I will definitely investigate that further.

@Drake & jryan21: There is no executable code in the resume so its impossible for it to screw up anything or be detected by anti-virus software - there is no program to "detect". If it can't connect to the site, nothing happens (except the stat wouldn't get recorded). There's nothing abnormal about the user's resume.
 
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Where have you tested this application?
I can most certainly guarantee you (experienced in this area) a large enterprise's locked down environment is like night and day to your linksys home network.
 
I work in corporate environments fairly often, so I understand first-hand how locked down some can be. Hardware firewalls on networks would NEVER block this (its regular web traffic). If software firewall settings WERE blocking word, my site would not be contacted and the user's profile would not be updated so they'd never know if the thing was opened.

In an absolute worst-case scenario, the person viewing the resume would see an alert "Microsoft word is attempting to contact the website [application's website]" Cancel or Allow? The same thing would happen if you were trying to download clip-art or access online help. In most corporate environments though, the default is to just block otherwise the user would be inundated with popups every 5 seconds asking "Allow Internet explorer to connect to google.com?" And 99% of of users wouldn't know what to press so this is best left to network admins (who set default deny rules).

It makes sense to check various firewalls, and I will continue to do that, but so far I haven't come across one that has blocked - or even asked me.

BTW, I have a pfSense box running on my home network with 2 separate subnets and different firewall rules for each network. I'm not a newbie in this area but I appreciate the questioning. It will help me answer customer questions better :)
 
Seems like you have covered a decent amount of possibilities here.

As far as price point, have you decided if this would be a monthly rebill service or just a one-off type of licensing fee?

What about piracy? Have you taken that into consideration and figured out a way to keep others from passing on free versions of your app to their friends?

One other thing to consider also would be the possible difficulties you might run into marketing something to a group that might be broke. Considerations should be made on other applications for a product like this - maybe legal notices? An electronic version of registered mail of sorts.
 
When you say "see who's reading" - what exactly can you tell about this person?

Do you get a picture of the guys dog and a list of what's he's eaten that day, an address, or just an IP?
 
Hmmm, can it work with .pdf files or any other extensions? I might be able to help you w/this... And yeah, what kind of analytics does it actually pull? What else CAN you pull?
 
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