Ask HN: Where am I lacking with my script sales?
I love writing beautiful code, kind of perfectionist.<p>I have developed a PHP script few years ago and now the sales drop to 3 per month. Daily visitors are very low less than 20 per day, the bounce rate is high 65%. Had gone to all those common-sense SEO efforts like posting on tumblr, tweeting, facebook page update, PRs, free directory listing to established directories, YouTube intro, Social Bookmarkings etc.<p>I personally feel that there are two major problems (a) The design might be not prettier (comparing established script in same niche) (b) My marketing skills suck and I dont know latest trends &amp; techniques nor I&#x27;ve ever done paid marketing.<p>Anything constructive&#x2F;white-hat regarding how to spread the word regarding my script (or pointers) will be appreciated.<p>Marketing Questions:
Q#1 Do you think I suck at marketing because I am not willing to invest any penny for marketing?<p>Q#1.a Do you think Paid Blog Reviews (from established &amp; niche bloggers) will help? On average they charge 200$ to 500$<p>Q#1.b Will paid tweets (once a month) from established agencies would help? On average that cost $100<p>Q#1.c Will PPC Campaigns (AdWords) will bring any difference?<p>Q#1.d Am I missing any wortful paid marketing technique here?<p>Q#2 Do you think I am missing some important thing in my <i>free</i> marketing (off-site SEO) campaign?<p>Demo&#x2F;Design Questions
Q#3 Design (Background or Forms themselves) is not appealing<p>Q#4 Control Panel at far-left is very weird? Did you notice I am offering live chat sales&#x2F;support<p>Q#5 Missing some salient&#x2F;value-feature?<p>Q#6 Not having powered by link at the bottom with released code<p>Marketplace Related Questions:
Q#7 The script was never on the featured page or because it is not anywhere on top-selling scripts?<p>Q#8 The lead page at marketplace is not catchy?<p>Product: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;193DKqR<p>Thanks a bunch in advance for reading &amp; making difference.