Category: Weekly Progress

Track Our Startup’s Progress with Business Dashboards - Bug Fixin’

June 11, 2014 by John Hingley·1 Comment

This week we did a ton of bug fixing (what software companies allocate a ton of of their time to.) Is it sexy? Not so much, and why are these online projects so damn buggy? We’ll tell you, with all of the browsers, email clients, age of browsers and mobile devices that we use today to get our information, there is a TON of QA for every freakin’ permutation that needs to go on behind0-the-scenes. And can we catch it all before it hits your computer? No way. Sorry in advance on behalf of all software developers out there.

Customize your Insights!

But what’s cool about bug fixin’ is you know that no one is gonna send us an email about THAT one we just fixed. Might intro another one into the mix but, why go there?

Ok, we’ve got a nifty drawer for you to input your comments on for each Insight. And now you can customize the description of each Insight. This way if you share an Insight with a co-worker or client, they know exactly what they’re looking at!

We’ve started our list of FAQs so that if and when you get stuck, we’ve hopefully thought of the answer to the question you might ask. We’re starting to build out that knowledgebase now.

For those of you who are keeping track of our business dashboards scorecard we’ve tackled Insights for Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Facebook Insights, Mailchimp and your very own Custom Insights. Whew! That’s a lot of work. And the list is pretty long. We’re probably going to get it out in front of a few of you with just those to start with.

More to come! See our past progress, it’s fun with business dashboards.

Track Our Startup’s Progress with Business Dashboards - Adwords Dashboards Done!

June 4, 2014 by John Hingley·0 Comments

Our new charting gives you the ability to track different variables on multiple axes!

Last week we told you we got further along with our deep dive into Adwords Insights for our business dashboards. Well TA-DAAAA! We got ’em! Now you’ll have access to a bevvy of Adwords info at your purdy little fingertips.

What else happened?

We changed charting software from Charts.js to HighCharts. Why is this cool? So you can have two variables on one graph. Fancy.

We attended Subscribed, we LOVE the guys at Zuora who put on this show. More on that tomorrow.

We also worked on the “What’s Your Gig” part of our website. It’s pretty cool, you can get a quick view of what your own dashboard might look like depending on what you do in your biz.

We’re posting funny charts all the time, our latest is based on that amazing rock singer Meat Loaf. We’re up to over 2500 likes on Facebook and over 400 Twitter followers so make sure you’re following us. We’ve also got hundreds of early access people who have signed up so make sure you’re on the list before we close it!

Track Our Startup’s Progress with Business Dashboards - Attack of the Backlog

May 30, 2014 by John Hingley·0 Comments

Last week was great but we had a stellar week this week at Dasheroo with our business dashboards and we’re pretty excited.

Add comments on each Insight so that your teammates know what’s going on.

Our amazing developers went haywire going to town on our backlog of open issues and boy did we make huge strides.

All This New Stuff In Just ONE WEEK!

Copy a dashboard so you don’t have to start from scratch
Comment on a particular Insight which fires an email to those who share it so everyone is in the loop
Submit support issues in our application so that we can fix them
Make your dashboard public by sharing a read-only link
View in Presentation/full screen mode in the event you need to put it on a big-ass TV
Create your own dashboard and Insight descriptions, so people you collaborate with know exactly what they are looking at
We now have an “Insight Library” window so you can easily see all of the Insights we have available to you

The Geekier You Are, The More We Love You

You can now create a custom Insight from a URL, so if you’ve got data in-house you can pipe it into your dashboard
We got the Adwords API approval (not without it’s trials and tribulations)!
We are tracking events so we know how our customers are using (or more importantly are not using) parts of the service

Flashy Stuff Since We Don’t Have a Product to Give You…Yet

We’re up to over 2400 Facebook Likes and we’ve been boosting some mad posts like crazy! We’ve got close to 400 Twitter followers, a ton of Pins on Pinterest of Funny Charts and we’ve been posting on LinkedIn. Make sure you get our stuff from one of these channels please. Since we don’t have a product yet we’re pretty creative with content on how you need to be measuring your biz. Fortheluvagod tell your friends about us we need it. Sound too desperate?

We are trying to get a few of you into the product by end of June - beginning of July to kick the tires for us and tell us what you like what you don’t. If you’re in that bunch you’ll be hearing from us soon. If you’re not, it won’t be long before you get your own chance, and guess what? It’s gonna be FREE!

Track Our Startup’s Progress with Business Dashboards - Google Adwords Dashboards on Deck!

May 20, 2014 by John Hingley·0 Comments

Keep a close eye on your Facebook Fans daily!

This week we had more gains in our startup progress! We are so excited about what’s been going on at Dasheroo with our business dashboards. We’ve got our past “progress reports” since we started for you here.

Our developers took another break from developing “Insights” (we like this word better than Widgets) and worked on other parts of the product. Speaking of Insights we were having issues getting access to the Google Adwords API but GREAT NEWS; we got accepted and can get you your Adwords data in a snap.

In the meantime we’re working on cool stuff like copying a dashboard and enabling you to input dashboard descriptions (so that nosey boss will know exactly what they’re looking at!)

On other fronts we’re working on getting our Zoho support site coupled with our business dashboards application, so that you can easily get help when you need it. We’re also working on the website so that we can give you a “resources” section where you can get more help for your business, and depending on what your role is in your company you can see how dashboards might work for you.

On top of it all we’re close to 1900 Facebook Likes, we’re on LinkedIn now and close to 400 Twitter followers! More great charts on our famous Who Charted, and the great blog post, Tips for Writing Great Title Tags.

We’re getting closer to getting this in front of you stay tuned.

Track Our Startup’s Progress with Business Dashboards - Share Your Dashboard!

May 13, 2014 by John Hingley·0 Comments

Send invites to ask people to join your organization and share your data!

This week was yet another stellar one here at Dasheroo. Our crack team of developers took a break from doing Dashboard Insights and dove into starting to make the rest of the product work!

We now have an “Organizations” link so that you can be a member of your company’s business dashboards as well as others. Great if you’re a consultant managing multiple customers. You can also send email invites since we got our mailing system up and running as well.

Next up? Adwords Insights. They are a persnickety bunch over there and want all kindsa information on “Why” you need access. That’s ok, we’ll get there. We’re also going to revamp our “Comments” and give you the ability to comment and give descriptions on a specific Insight so when that nosey boss starts to snoop around you’ll be prepared!

Marketing

We now have a nifty new website that replaced our placeholder site. It’s a great start to a site that we can populate with features as we get more of ’em.
Loving the new site!
Over 1700 Facebook Likes, going for 2000, help us get there!
Over 350 Twitter Followers
60 blog posts including the ever-popular Who Charted series and a great one on 5 Rules of Thumb for Testing…scintillating!
We now own 4 positions on Google when you search “Dasheroo”.

We sent out our first Welcome email to our Early Access list. We use that great Email Marketing company VerticalResponse , you may have heard of them;-) Oh and if you’re not on the list get there fast!

Next up? We’ll be working on our Resources section on the new website where we’ll store glossaries on various data partners (Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics) and some free tools.

Onward and upward, eh?

Track Our Startup’s Progress with Business Dashboards - Facebook Dashboards Done!

May 6, 2014 by John Hingley·0 Comments

See the demographic makeup of your Facebook Page visitors. Also you’ll see that with the Facebook icon in the corner you’ll always know what data you’re looking at!

As usual we got a ton done this week. We are deep in the mode of creating Insights as you know from our previous posts. We’re finishing up our first stab at Facebook Insights and moving on to Adwords. But before we moved on we got yet another nifty Facebook Insight. We also decided to start to use the branded colors of our Partner’s Insight so that you’re familiar with what you’re looking at.

We’re up to 1400 Likes and 310 Twitter followers which is great!
We’re publishing to LinkedIn now in addition to Facebook and Twitter which is driving more traffic to our site and blog. (Great content btw!)
We’re working on a new website now, hopefully to be launched next week.
We’ve got TONS of leads for our early access list. We’re going to cap it soon. ARE YOU ON IT??

We’ve got some financial experts looking at our business model in the coming few weeks. That’s pretty cool, we’re smart and everything but these people know their stuff!

After Adwords the rest of May will be focused on nailing collaboration, first-time user experience and connecting your third party accounts to your business dashboards on Dasheroo so you can get data into your Insights.

Track Our Startup’s Progress with Business Dashboards - Facebook Dashboards on Deck

April 29, 2014 by John Hingley·0 Comments

Last week we told you how much we worked on our Google Analytics Insights, our beloved developers decided to give GA a rest and move onto Facebook. What did we get? More Insights! We took a stab at delivering a nice graph of a bunch of Facebook metrics together, see what you think. We’ll be doing a few more before we move on!

One example of how we’re thinking of putting all your Facebook Engagement data in one Insight.

What else you ask? We worked hard at making sure we’re pulling the right data for you in all of our Insights!

Our team is building these so fast it’s tough to keep up.

We also posted some great nuggets about what to track in your e-commerce system, and calculating the value of an email address. Pretty cool.

We also got a sneak peek at a website to replace our placeholder site. It looks awesome! Even better we’re trying to make it super easy for you to log right in and get dashing!

On top of all that we got some great people signing up interested in being lab rats for our business dashboards so make sure you get on the list!

We’re killing it on Facebook with engagement rates of over 1% and upwards of 1200 Likes. We’re started to start letting the cat outta the bag when we created a LinkedIn page of who is behind all of this mumbo jumbo.

Next up? We will ATTACK Adwords so look out!!

Track Our Startup’s Progress with Business Dashboards - Google Analytics Dashboard Done!

April 24, 2014 by John Hingley·1 Comment

Another great week for business dashboards in development! We’ve been really busy. We’re shooting to get something out to a few of you in late Q2 so noses to grindstone for the Dasherooers. The Google Analytics API is a bear, in a good way. There is a ton of information we can pull out of it for you but we want it to be meaningful.

Insights

All of your Google Analytics traffic sources in one Insight on your Dasheroo business dashboard!

We now have some killer Google Analytics Insights working, one of which we show you to the right. It’s pretty cool to get some great information from Google displayed the way you want it.

We’ve got a bunch more Google Analytics Insights you’ll be able to use on your own dashboard that we’re deep in QA with right now.

Next up? Diving into the Facebook API to get some Facebook Insights going!

Backoffice (if we had an office…)

We’re also testing out Zoho CRM to collect email addresses from you if you want to sign up and get on the early access list. They have a nifty email collection tool that will stick your deets right into our Zoho account. We’re going to test out Zoho Support for their Community and Portal in the event you’ll need to reach us. So far It’s coming up to about $25/month.

Next up? To begin to populate articles so you can get the info you need when you need it.

Marketing? What do we have to market?

Well we’ve got to be talking about something while the developers are busy building some great business dashboard Insights for ya! So we put out some killer blog posts, check out New Google Analytics Terminolgy, Wassup? and the famous Who Charted? series, silly fun with graphs and charts!

We hit an all time high of 900 Facebook likes, but even better, some great engagement rates! Can’t wait to get a Facebook Insight for that one since Facebook doesn’t really put it in your face. How did we get all of those Likes? We think it’s killer content coupled with the fact that we are boosting almost every post where we send you all back to this blog. We also hit over 250 Twitter followers as well and we’re posting blog posts and other neat stuff to Twitter.

To top it all off when you search “Dasheroo” we now appear on page 1 with Facebook and Twitter!

Next up? More great content to help you manuever through the massive data you could be using to help you grow and the beginnings of a real website to replace the one we have. While you’re there checking it out, sign up!

Dasheroo - Huge Google Analytics PROGRESS with Business Dashboards!

April 15, 2014 by John Hingley·0 Comments

One step closer to business dashboards for your biz.

This week we went nuts. We told you last that we’d be working on the next Insight which is Google Analytics. So we’re knee deep in the heap of all of the Google API mumbo jumbo which ain’t easy, but it’s fun!

So we got SIX Google Insights working! You’ll be able to see your visits, your mobile users, etc. here. Our Product and Dev people simply rock.

You can copy an Insight to another Dashboard so if someone else in your business needs it they can view it on their own dashboard without having to go to yours. Pretty nice.

We’re over 500 Facebook and 250 Twitter followers. (People really like this data stuff huh?) Hopefully we’ll show you soon with our very own DASHBOARD the progress we’re making! Honestly? Can’t wait for that to happen.

We’re blogging like wildfire with some really great information if you hadn’t noticed. Tell your friends, we could use the traffic.

Behind the scenes we all work on this project in separate places! So each week we get on Skype to have a weekly meeting and we use Basecamp to track communications and progress on the amazing project.

Did you sign up to get on the early access list yet? It’s getting full by the minute!

Track Our Startup’s Progress with Business Dashboards - Headway with Google Analytics

April 9, 2014 by John Hingley·0 Comments

What a week it’s been and we’ve even been down a guy (ok, we all need vacays every now and then)! Hey he had an amazing time. You thought we made great progress with our business dashboards last week? Check out this week…

Because we want you involved in our trip to launching our first version, we want to share this week’s progress with you! We made some great Google headway this week. The great thing about Google is that once you get into the data that Google provides you’ll see that you pull data as it relates to Analytics, Adwords and Adsense so for sure we’ll be playing with that to build some pretty great Insights for you.

Our Product team has been busy loading up Pivotal Tracker (the nifty Product Management tool that Product and Developers love to use to track progress) with more Insights and features that you will LOVE.

Check out all of the features our team has been working on…can’t wait to show them to you!

Our Marketers have been busy getting some great informational content to you on how to use Facebook to boost traffic and another great “Who Charted” post. They get better each week! We’ve got 335 Facebook Likes in just a week and a half and about 160 Twitter followers. Pretty cool. We started to use Hootsuite to manage it all, seems like it’s going to work.

Next week? More Google, more Google!! In the meantime tell your friends about our nifty content.