The Personal Blog of Dan Wilson
Acquiring new users is one of the most important parts of growing a successful product or business. Good acquisition is about getting the right users who will find value in your product and stick around for the long haul. Get this right, and your business grows. Get it wrong, and you get bogged down in The post Acquisition – The First Touchpoint in PLG SaaS appeared first on The NoDans Club .
Getting Ready to Get Started: Have you ever tried driving fast at night while reading your phone? Of course not! Who would ever do that!? (Me looks around nervously) Well that s what doing marketing without good data is like. Before you start marketing your product, it s super important to set up a tracking system so The post Building a Strong Digital Marketing Foundation appeared first on The…
Welcome back to the blog! It s been a while, but I m ready to dive back in and share some of the lessons I ve learned from years of building and marketing software products—so you don t have to go through the same growing pains. I ve built this series for early stage software companies or products that want The post So You Wanna Grow? Product-Led Growth for Software Startups appeared first on The…
Running Digital Ads is a lot of fun. Many times, it s instant feedback. If something is working you get clear results in your metrics and reporting (Right?). If something isn t working you either see the absence of metrics or just get an overwhelming sense of quiet where there shouldn t be. I sometimes get that same The post Tips for Google Ads Keyword Matching appeared first on The NoDans Club .
If you remember, I spent 17 years building software, running a startup, and also running a consultancy. Imagine my surprise when I entered the corporate world after a 12-year hiatus. Apparently, the industry has redefined what the word Partner means. Due to my role, I get many emails, offers to connect on Linked In, and The post What is a Partner – Part 1 appeared first on The NoDans Club .
I ve been contacted by a company claiming to be from Direct TV. They claim I can take advantage of a promotion with Amazon to pay 5 months of my bill with an Amazon Gift Card. If I do that, I ll get 2 years at a very reduced rate. I ve been stringing these guys along for The post DirectTV Fraud 888-407-2674 appeared first on The NoDans Club .
Connection to Google untrusted? Fix below! Lately, I have had issues connecting to Google, Google Mail and other random services over the last few months. I did some digging today and fixed (I believe) the issue. If you are having problems with security messages like the below, try these steps to see if it fixes The post Why is my connection to Google, Gmail or HSTS Site Untrusted? appeared first…
I spent a bit of time trying to understand why a tap event failed to fire on a button in NativeScript. Here was the original code segments: Button Code Tap Event Handler Function exports.payDebtAction = function(args){ var page = args.object; console.log("paydebt"); } The intent of this code was to hide the Pay Debt button if The post NativeScript button event not firing appeared first on The…
I ran into an issue updating NativeScript 1.4 to NativeScript 1.5. The symptom: > nativescript@1.5.0 postinstall C:\Users\DanWilson\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\nativescript > node postinstall.js Basically, after uninstalling and reinstalling NativeScript on Windows 7 (maybe other OS s are affected also), the process would hang at the node postinstall.js. By hang, I mean it was stuck at the…
I develop NativeScript on Windows. As in most new, shiny technology, developing on Windows has it s quirks. In this post, we ll talk about 3 different ways to run your NativeScript project in an emulator, as well as the pros and cons of each method. I m also going to use the Android platform. The iOS commands The post The best way to develop and run NativeScript projects in an emulator appeared…