ManojRanaweera
How does Sri Lanka compares with Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam when it comes to SEO and social…
Assume Sri Lanka is ranking better on BPO than above categories. Sri Lanka is currently no 35 in terms of traffic on edocr | edocr. India is 2 having overtaken UK, and might even overtake USA, given that most companies in the USA now outsource SEO and Social media to Indian companies, especially those who […]
What are the best papers posted for the PDF tribute for Aaron Swartz?
Answer by Manoj Ranaweera: I did not know Aaron but have spent significant time reading about him, his contribution to the Internet and technology and how others are feeling about his departure. And then I started to wonder, is there anything I could do to help. Then I discovered this post. I am the founder […]
What is the best CRM for companies experiencing growth?
Answer by Manoj Ranaweera: If you have two salesmen, I would suggest opting for a simple solution rather than Salesforce, which is quite an over kill for a small company (It’s great for larger salesforce). After paying for Salesforce, we switched to Capsule CRM, which is a simple CRM, which can be configured to […]
Are partnerships a good way to scale a SaaS business?
Answer by Manoj Ranaweera: In Q4 2011, we made a strategic decision to take a partner lead approach, as we struggled to connect our product/service with existing business processes. We went live with Buffer (Buffer your documents for increased productivity) in Dec 2011 followed by Zendesk (Enrich Zendesk customer service with centralised documents) in March […]
What happens in the background when a user signs up for a SaaS product?
Answer by Manoj Ranaweera: You might see some services create a subdomain and others will not. But in most cases, everything runs from a single database which may or may not be distributed. We run our service from a single database with x hourly backups. Services which are considered mission critical might have much more […]
What are 10 marketing strategies for a cash-strapped SaaS company?
Answer by Manoj Ranaweera: Its good to notice that you are connecting with existing brands such as CC and Mailchimp. Ask them for co-marketing, e.g. listing you on their partner pages, blog post, social media campaign, etc Explore other products you can integrate with. Unfortunately, I cannot think how you could integrate with us.. mmh […]
Linkedin looks more and more like a stream of posts – clearly competing with Facebook, Twitter and G+. What would Linkedin looks like by …
Linkedin started with CVs and selling to Recruitment industry. Now focuses on Sales and Marketing in addition to above, and building streams similar to G+, Twitter and Facebook. At the end, all will look similar to Facebook and G+, all having videos, slides and any other content they can think of. What do you think […]
Review of 20 hottest UK tech startups of 2008 #Webmission08
Image Credit: Mike Butcher, taken at Bebo office, San Francisco in Apr 2008 The Tour In April 2008, 20 of the hottest UK techstartups toured San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. These companies have raised a whopping $95 million to date. The Companies were: DotHomes/Byteplay, edocr.com Groupspaces HubDub/Fanduel Huddle Kwiqq Mydeo Rummble/Rummble Labs ShortFuze/Moviestorm Silobreaker […]
10-Minute e-Mailers and the grief
We have begun to continuously monitor traffic, as part of providing real-time chat support through Woopra on edocr.com. Woopra is an invaluable service to our operations, and we recommend it highly for any tech startup. Today, we came across a new edocr.com account which was continuously pinged, in fact 556 times today. As a general […]
5 Stages of a tech startup – Stage 1: Product Development
There are many ways to plan the growth of your tech company. One way is to split start to exit period in to 5 stages, these being: product development, product/market fit, launch, growth and dominance. And each of these stages can be further split into five key components, these being: milestones, team, product, funding and […]