Week 6 - A Look Back
It’s already been six weeks! This is going really fast. This week I set the milestone of signing up beta users for Sportycus. This was an exciting milestone because it was a truly customer related milestone. The question of course was how would I accomplish this.
Well, I already had two individuals who already agreed to be beta users from the start. So I went into this week knowing that I had something to work with. Also, Russ Gottesman from Commuter Advertising had offered to introduce me to one of his contacts who had shown interesting beta testing the product.
I however wanted to sign up at least 5 more beta users. So I took a page out of my mentor’s (Corey) book towards building a web app. He creates a mailing list and invites users to sign up to be beta users. This way, he can update his beta users to changes and keep them engaged even before a single line of code has been written. So I created a mailing list through MailChimp. I am in the process of setting up a public form and Sportycus blog so potential beta users can sign up.
So this will be another successful week of accomplishing milestones. Looking back though, I wish I set some more customer focused milestones such as this one. Next week, my milestone is building upon what I started this week. I plan on expanding the Sportycus blog and setting up the marketing/front end of the website. Excited!!
