
We are in growth mode now. The majority of our bugs have been crushed under my painted toes. Our global search for an exceptional Sys Admin has taken me from Lithuania to Mexico and then back east again to Russia where Evgeniy is working his magic on our boxes.
On the other side of the app, the software side of things, we’ve also traveled quite a distance to land back at home. We tried Russia, Brazil, India, back to Russia, only to land back on my desk, at my keyboard. I’ve recently been promoted to junior developer for ByteStand. Hopefully I’ll last longer than my predecessors. I definitely have more skin in the game. I stopped counting my investment after $20,000. I sleep better that way.
After 3 months in the Shopify App Store we have 441 app installs, and just under $5,000 in total revenue. I’ve installed Google Analytics on our Shopify Store page, and we are getting about 50 visits a day there and roughly 100 visits a day to our website. Plus, we have a Google Adwords campaign that is costing about $15/day and bringing in anywhere from 10 to 30 visits.
Thankfully, with a more stable code base, our burn rate for developers has dropped from almost $1,500 a week to less than $500 a week. I’m hoping that eventually my burn rate inches closer to zero, while my revenue number continues to climb. Ahh, what a day that will be.
During all the turmoil from developing the main application, I’ve also just submitted a new app to the App Store. It’s called FBA Shipping and will hopefully be live soon. Our plans here are to eventually integrate my shipping app into the main ByteStand app.
Now I have to switch roles and move from technology to marketing, finding new users and expanding our brand. I’ve been trying 100 things or more, I’ll expand on those in the next post, but for now I’ll just enjoy learning the ByteStand code base and admiring my black toe nails.
Shopify Amazon Integration in 10 Easy Steps
There’s a HUGE learning curve when you’re first setting up an online store. You can spend 38 million hours Googling this stuff. Or you can ask a magical genie to help you get setup.
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Our Virtual Bundle feature assists you in quickly mapping your physical FBA SKUs to your Amazon virtual bundle SKUs. Now, you may be asking, what does that mean?
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Starting January 1, 2023, stores on the Shopify Starter and Basic plans will no longer be able to request access to the Carrier Service API (Carrier Calculated Shipping).
Amazon Blank Box Program for Shopify
There’s a HUGE learning curve when you’re first setting up an online store. You can spend 38 million hours Googling this stuff. Or you can ask a magical genie to help you get setup.
How to Reverse Engineer Your Shopify Store for Guaranteed Traffic
Most ecommerce businesses fail because they can’t get enough traffic to their stores. They focus on having the coolest products, forgetting the most important part – the buyers!
ByteStand Success: Enerskin, Makers of FDA Approved Compression Gear
This week’s ByteStand Success interview features Enerskin, a high tech company featured in Runner’s World and Vogue for their patented compression gear made for elite athletes and sports enthusiasts.
Why Our FBA Shipping App is Better Than Shopify’s Built In Fulfillment by Amazon Integration
At least a couple of times a week, I turn into a huge dork who gets super excited about explaining the multitude of ways that our app is better than Shopify’s built-in Fulfillment by Amazon integration.