First twitter ad run

I ran some ads on twitter, my goal was to get mailing list signups. To be blunt it was a failure.

I spent 386NIS (just under $100) and got 1 mailing list signup.  However I did get 106K impressions of my tweets, 916 link clicks, 25 followers and a few retweets and people favoring my tweets.

What do I think this means? That just having a "Sign up for my mailing list" button is not useful. I am going to try to add a drip course and run some more ads, and see if that has a better result.

What is the Saas Factory

The SAAS factory is a set of tools to build SAAS sites with a minimum of pain. In trying to build a my first SAAS Site I found that I had spent way to much time integrating Login (Facebook & Google +) and subscriptions with 2 checkout. What I really want is to be able to not do this.

So since the first idea was not so great to begin with I am kicking it to the curb (for now) and building the user and subscription management features.

The way this will work should be pretty simple. The Site Builder will put a few HTML tags on the landing page. When the user creates an account, and has a valid subscription then the system will do a HTTP Post to a supplied URL. The payload of this post with be an OAuth data JSON, and a HTTP cookie.

From that point the using site can assume that the user has signed in and has the correct subscription etc and just provide value to the end users.