The Benefits of S.E.R.V.I.C.E.

If you have built out your FileMaker product and are ready to sell it to your target users, there is one step you need to do before you start: You need to decide how you will handle software support questions. As soon as you release your new software to the world, you...

Case Study: Let Your Customers Login to their Account

We have several clients who have asked us to create web-based logins for their customers. For example, a printing company in Canada asked us to build a site which would allow their customers to go to the company website, and click on a link that says, “Customer...

Hybrid Products vs. Responsive

These days there are so many options in terms of how to display and access applications, that it is often best to plan on a hybrid application right from the start. Some will call this ‘responsive’, but that is typically used just in the context of web-sites. A simple...

Three Things Your FileMaker App Website Must Do

If you have a FileMaker application which you would like to sell, then you of course will need a website to help you sell it. But the mistake which many people make is that they do not realize what exactly is the purpose of that website. That is, they so generalize it...

You need a complete product package

When I was writing my book, Easy Apps!, one thing which I had learned and shared in the book is that when it comes to selling a commercial software product, there is so much more involved than just writing the code. Writing the code is actually the easy part, but...

Case Study: A Digital Construction Equipment Tracker

Northern Dewatering, Inc, is a company based in Rogers, MN which pumps water away from construction and excavation sites. Usually ground water, rain, and melting snow are factors which flood a worksite and make any construction work more difficult. So NDI, ‘dewaters’...