@rosiesherry Thanks for this, and congrats on the business. I wish you all the best going forward in your industry (which I had never heard much of before now).
It's incredible looking at the revenue breakdown just how much 'training courses and events' were bringing in compared to the actual 'testing services'.
I'm launching 2 free and open-source toolkits for Web designers/developers next month and your revenue breakdown has convinced me that my initial plan of monetizing on training is probably the way to go.
Do you have any specific tips on how you built up that initial community (besides setting up the forum)? What were some of the specific tactics you used to draw those initial users in?
I'd be happy to chat in detail 'offline'. Mostly I just try to be human and genuinely helpful.
I try to find ways that help testers and I keep doing it consistently (even if it gets really tedious).
One example is me maintaining a feed for testing related blogs. Testers can either submit or if I find a new one I add it to our feed. The feed gets shared publicly, but then I also socially share some of the blog posts. People often explain their spike in traffic as the 'sherry' effect :)
I ask for nothing in return, I do it as a way to try to grow and bring the community together.
It's incredible looking at the revenue breakdown just how much 'training courses and events' were bringing in compared to the actual 'testing services'.
I'm launching 2 free and open-source toolkits for Web designers/developers next month and your revenue breakdown has convinced me that my initial plan of monetizing on training is probably the way to go.
Do you have any specific tips on how you built up that initial community (besides setting up the forum)? What were some of the specific tactics you used to draw those initial users in?