Separate, but related note: "NYC Open Data" is growing every day & provides free data https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/ For national data check out the parent organization Socrata.com. Great resources for public data records, which are 100% free, contains everything from real estate transaction...
You can either dissect the inner workings of ajax calls (if the website has any) or write a regular full-page scraper which traverses the product catalog. Popular choices for scraping are casperjs, beautiful soup, mechanize, etc. Each having its strengths and drawbacks - casper for instance can e...
In the realm of custom work, fixed prices are dangerous ground. It puts you in a position to either say "no" or ask for more money when a project has extra needs, and that's never a comfortable situation to be in. You said yourself that speaking to a lead is the best way to make a sale. I'd ech...
Questions you should think about (assuming you have existing customers) * Can you run these case-studies past your existing customers' buyers to see what you're missing? Basically why is a use-case, whitepaper not convincing enough? * Can you get prospects to talk to existing customers or do a w...
In my experience, this data has been at no cost. Most property appraiser sites offer sales data as an excel file for download. Each property can be looked at with exterior photos, or base floor plans. It would take quite alot of dara entry to input into a program, the issue would be the accur...
Hey, I'm a conversion optimization consultant so I can offer some help here. Whether a conversion rate is "good" or not is a relative measure. If you run a test and get it to 35% from 26%, that's good! If if go from 26% to 10%, then you know you could be doing better. Comparing your conversion r...
Ultimately, it depends on the value the app has for the buyer (not how much money you put into developing it). Unfortunately there are many reasons for a buyer to purchase an app and so there are many ways to value an app (a multiple of yearly revenues,number of active users, etc.) . A good solut...
I like to separate your question into 2 sub-questions: #1 How do we determine which side to charge? #2 How much is the right amount to charge? On #1, my answer is that you can charge the side(s) for whom you add the most value. In your examples, Uber really solves a big problem for drivers, it's...
There are a few resource spots you can consider, but I would strong recommend just sticking with what they offer directly on their site: https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing?v=7 https://www.twilio.com/voice/pricing (VIP or offbook pricing is a little harder to nail down since they are going to m...
There are quite a few issues multiplying apps on the app store itself. So I'd save that for a time when you have some very precise discovery to do. My recommended growth hack strictly for a short-term test is to price the app on the store at the lowest figure you want to test, while naming a ran...