I’m happy to announce that the price for Attendance Management System has been reduced to $49!
Attendance Management System is the easiest way to track attendance for community organizations such as scouts, church groups, school activities, and business organizations.
One way I might be more productive in my business is to make daily updates to the blog, just to document what I worked on each day, or even to document cool stuff I come across on the web that might be useful. I did this with my previous business attempt last summer: http://projecthatrick.blogspot.com/. I’m also going to redesign the theme for this blog eventually.
Right now, the vast majority of my traffic is coming from Facebook ads. This is the best advertising investment I’ve made so far. I get lots of very targeted traffic and a high percentage of downloads. So far, I haven’t gotten any conversions from this traffic, but it’s still too early to form any conculsions.
One piece of feedback I got is that my product is priced too high. After reviewing the prices of some of my competitors, I reached the same conclusion. In the near future, I’ll be reducing the price of my product to $49.
I’m just wrapping up some customizations of Attendance Management System for a customer. Usually twice a year, I get a custom development contract. The software was designed to be highly versatile, but every once in a while, an organization has specific requirements that require customizations.
Several customers have been very satisfied by my professional web site design services, including: Gaia Garden Designs, The Alpha Centauri (with a previous site), and Flat Stone Amps. I have two other sticks in the fire: the school store for the high school I work at and Tommy’s Tree Nursery. The first site should be completed before January, and the second is due out this spring.
The pay for these gigs is not very high, but adding some sites to my portfolio will be very helpful in marketing my services.
It would be great if you had a single program that would let you manage all kids in all grades but also let you track attendance for each grade level separately. Well, guess what? Attendance Management System does just that! With the software, you can make each grade level its own group and track the attendance for that group separately.
Another great thing about the software is that you can set up a computer at your church and have kids sign in themselves. They just pick out their names from a list and (optionally) enter their passwords. Of course, you can also print out blank attendance forms if you use the pass-around-the-room method. You can download the software and use it free for 30 days. Find out what other churches have already discovered about the best attendance software on the market!
Attendance Management System was developed for Windows XP, and during my testing of the software on Windows 7, I found a few little nasty bugs:
Version 4.2 fixes these problems and there are no known issues with Windows 7. The program works great on all versions of Windows from XP to Windows 7, including Vista.
Microsoft has vowed backward compatibility with Visual Basic 6 applications on Windows 7, and everything now is working wonderfully. However, the rumor is that this support will stop for Windows 8. Not to worry; I’m already planning chapter two. It’ll be even better. Stay tuned.
You haven’t lived until you’ve taught computer programming to a group of 14 year olds. One way I put food on the table is by teaching high business classes, and our first trimester just ended. This is an intro course covering the absolute basics: variables, computations, events, decisions, loops, methods, and arrays. The culminating activity was a simplified blackjack game which took me about 20 minutes to write but took the class about a week.
Really, it’s awesome seeing the excitement in their eyes when they figure out how to make the computer say YOU HAVE A VIRUS or count backwards from ten. When they actually make their first card game, they’re basically ecstatic.