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Using Software Registrations to Protect Your Software Product

By on October 22, 2007 in

Software registration is used for a variety of purposes. For many box-item software purchases, registrations are used to obtain logistics information regarding the demographics of users, market penetration, and other valuable information. However, for the vast majority of shareware publishers, registrations are used to activate or de-cripple software.

Registrations also allow shareware software publishers to code in a bypass to lag and nag codes, annoying reminder splash screens, and other features that are used to encourage full copy purchase. The following is a look at some of the common registration techniques used in software code.

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How to Protect Your Software Idea Through Intellectual Property (IP) Laws

By on October 21, 2007 in

Software development is an expensive undertaking. Arguably, few if any major developers would be in this market if not for protection offered by intellectual property laws. In the United States , works gain some inherent protection upon creation under common copyright laws. This affords some protection to even the smallest and less financed software developers.

However, the common laws limit damages in almost all cases to a few thousand dollars at best. As a developer who has put substantial financial backing into the production of a particular software, you may wonder what other benefits can be attained through using the protection of various laws. Quite simply put: you can protect yourself by making sure no one else takes advantage of your hard work by getting a lawyer and moving to place your software into the realm of three forms of protection.

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How to Find Good Programmers For Your Software Projects

By on October 19, 2007 in

Finding good programmers can be a tricky task indeed. In our modern era, programmers are prolific in society. Unfortunately, the majority of these programmers are not very good nor are they particularly adept at programming. Partly the fault of collegiate systems that churn out degrees, good programmers are a rarity. As a result, many companies turn to H1B visas to hire good programmers from overseas.

This doesn’t mean that a decision to hiring good programmers requires sponsoring and searching the world. Instead, potential employers need to focus on the quality of resumes and applicants they receive. A decision to look for more than credentials on paper can help increase the odds of netting a good programmer.

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Software Pricing – How to Price Your Software Competitively

By on October 16, 2007 in ,

Selecting a software pricing for your new program can be a hard decision. If your software costs too much, you may not sell many copies. If it’s priced too cheap, you still may not sell many copies. Additionally, you may not make as much money as if it was overpriced. If it’s priced free, how do you plan to pay for the man hours and work to bring your software to fruition?

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How to Turn A Plain Software Into a Good One

By on October 15, 2007 in

Having good software ideas requires a combination of luck, skill, research, and pragmatic ability to meet needs before anyone else in this world that is populated by over six billion people steps forward.

Good software requires the ability to provide an answer to others needs effectively, concisely, and with the necessary flare for detail.

The best software ideas are well thought out in the preplanning phase to avoid the potential of redundancy. Additionally, good software is designed specifically with either one of two of the camps of thought as its driving force. Either good software is designed to be cross platform specifically, or good software is designed for a specific operating system.

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Three Keys to Having A successful Software Project

By on February 8, 2007 in

A small software developer usually has to deal with smaller budgets, small workforce or inflexible schedule.

With all the pitfalls that can cause a software project to come in late or over budget, you must know the best practices in the field and learn how to implement them correctly.

To create profitable software and ensure that your project is a success, you’ll need to consistently find these three elements in every project.

 

Plan Your Project Properly

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Why Having Your Own Software Business Can Be More Profitable Than Selling eBooks

By on February 7, 2007 in

If you are looking to make money online, there’s a good reason to get into the software business. With virtually no overhead involved the software business can be so profitable.

Aside from on-going support costs, the profit potential is only limited by the demand of the general public.

Sure you can sell e-books but software products usually have a higher perceived value. If you are selling niche software, you can price it higher.

The reason for this is that software has a much longer user life than ebooks. It can be used repeatedly over and over again to solve certain problems or help you accomplished certain tasks.

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Welcome to Software Business Blog

By on February 7, 2007 in

Welcome to Software Business Blog, the place where you’ll find useful software marketing tips and tricks.

The blog is dedicated to help both aspiring and existing software developers who are trying to market their software online.

The categories that we are going to write about include software development and marketing, search engine optimization, pay per click marketing among others.

We hope to provide easily digestible information minus the jargons targeted towards small software developers.

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