Category Archive For "Transparent Startup"
Updated UI Fuels User Growth – The July/August Monthly Reports
It’s been a couple of months since the last update on Task Pigeon. In that time a lot has happened! In this transparency report on Task Pigeon I will cover both July and August activities. As always I will be sharing user numbers, income and expenditure. By far the biggest event in this two month …
Not All Startup Founders Can Go Full Time On Day One – What It’s Like Balancing A Startup, Full Time Work and A Family
You know what sucks? Hearing people say that you can’t possibly be committed to your startup if you still hold down a full time job. I’m sorry……… but I’d bet a decent amount of money that I am just as committed and put in just as many (productive) hours as most other founders. That said, …
Consistent Growth – The May (And June) Monthly Report
The theme for the last two months has been consistency. Consistency in the growth of user numbers, consistency in the growth of engagement and consistency in my understanding of what we need to do next to keep things heading up and to the right. In this report I am looking at what happened in both …
Why Data Is Critical In Assessing Your Startups Progress
Stepping into the driver’s seat as a Startup Founder is already a challenging enough job. Why then would you make it harder and blindfold yourself at the same time? But, that’s essentially what you do if you fail to prioritise the collection and analysis of data generated by your users. Despite what many headlines show, …
So You Want To Outsource SEO? Here’s Everything I Have Learned Outsourcing SEO To Freelancers
As Startup Founders, Entrepreneurs and Businesspeople we are constantly stretched for time. One way to “get back some time” is to outsource tasks, and perhaps one of the most common tasks to outsource is Search Engine Optimization or SEO based work. However, I have burned through more than four so called SEO experts! What should …
Up And To The Right – April 2018 Was A Cracker!
April was a fantastic month for Task Pigeon. In addition to the figures that I will detail below there are so many exciting things happening behind the scenes at the moment I can’t help but feel more excited than ever about the potential for Task Pigeon. But that is for another post. Today, I am …
New Sign Ups Increase Almost 200% In A Month
April has been a big month for Task Pigeon. And it’s not even finished yet! Our content marketing is starting to fire with a number of posts ranking well and bringing thousands of people to our site without any addition advertising or promotion. Not only that, and perhaps more importantly, we have hit on a …
Time Fly’s When You Are Having Fun – The February & March 2018 Monthly Reports
It’s crazy how fast time goes by. I can’t believe we are sitting in April 2018 already! For those who keep track of Task Pigeon, you know that I like to prepare a monthly report and share my traffic numbers, revenue, expenditure, etc. February came and went though, then so too March, and before I …
Looking At The Root Cause – The January 2018 Monthly Report
So it’s 2018 and Task Pigeon is coming up on one year since launch. In this monthly report I take some extra time to dissect the results and share more in-depth thoughts on where everything is currently at. Task Pigeon Website Traffic January 2018 No sugar coating this one. Website traffic took a big hit …
I Didn’t “Choose” To Be A Startup Founder – Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made
I didn’t “choose” to be a startup founder or entrepreneur. It is something I have always had (and wanted) to do. It may be hard for people who aren’t entrepreneurially inclined to understand but I have always known that being an entrepreneur was something within me. It wasn’t something I was taught. It wasn’t something …