Retention - if you build something people want/use AND come back and use often, then you can usually figure out a business model to make it work (if there's a big enough market).
Just like any other company.
I almost always turn to Upwork for work like this and I focus on the Philippines. Excellent workforce, good attitudes, and effective results if you screen well. Can't beat the cost, either. Don't expect to get good results from the lowest priced, but I have had superb folks at $15/hour.
One of our clients went with a card-based approach (http://purelyapp.com). The reasons were: - People understand them. The separation and spacing lead to very little cognitive overhead. - Perfect for responsive layouts, and translate easily to native mobile devices. - Forces you to discriminate ...
There are so many ways to do it... Do you need this data for yourself, or you are planning to make a product around it? From what I see you can use Twitter API and Facebook Graph API (Are you comfortable programming?) Most of the students are active on social media so you will find lots of data....
This isn't what I normally do for clients ... at all. But I write Excel formulas and custom-code databases every day and have a solid background in statistics. Sounds like what you're asking could be done in an hour using Excel ... and in such a way that you'd be able to enter future data in th...
If you wanted to get creative about things and keep your costs down try this. Dropbox business for $795 a year / unlimited storage "Embed from Dropbox The second option requires at least a basic understanding of how HTML embed codes work. It’s not complicated, so don’t be scared off, but it’...
I have been helping clients design, build, and deploy data platforms for many years. Initially on premise, but now in the cloud. This is a really good question. My immediate thought is, yes, there is value in this data. The more difficult one to answer is where and how? The obviously answer is mo...
As someone who has built TAM models for various industries - I can attest this isn;t always easy. Many analyst firms (former analyst here) typically do some surveys and research among public company revenue reports for the year and then do some pixie dust extrapolating. The hard thing about a ma...
eBay is an incredibly famous and popular marketplace. Very often, it is used by small sellers to sell goods, the same way as on Amazon. Therefore, the data from it can be used to assess a trading niche when entering a market with a new product. The eBay site is quite simple, does not use JavaScri...