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Re: (Software Development)Tapping Into The Singaporean Market

Post by ecureilx » Sun, 15 Oct 2017 5:23 pm

cogentbyte wrote:
Singapurapura wrote:Do you have experience in automation MMI/HMI? If yes please PM me.

Hi,

My PM seems to be stuck in the Outbox.

I have experience on user interfaces on printers like keypads and LCDs. I also have developed Windows based desktop applications for customized hardware, one I did for a company in Singapore. Can you give more details on what you need? Are the MMI/HMI you are looking for are for big machines?

I seldom visit the forum, you can email me directly at [email protected] for faster collaboration.
Your PM is not stuck

Not belittling you, but in forums I thought your know there's no transfer of messages like Mail.

Your message is in out box until it's read by the recipient.

Then it becomes Sent

Or more like status changes to sent.

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Re: (Software Development)Tapping Into The Singaporean Market

Post by cogentbyte » Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:44 pm

ecureilx wrote:
cogentbyte wrote:
Singapurapura wrote:Do you have experience in automation MMI/HMI? If yes please PM me.

Hi,

My PM seems to be stuck in the Outbox.

I have experience on user interfaces on printers like keypads and LCDs. I also have developed Windows based desktop applications for customized hardware, one I did for a company in Singapore. Can you give more details on what you need? Are the MMI/HMI you are looking for are for big machines?

I seldom visit the forum, you can email me directly at [email protected] for faster collaboration.
Your PM is not stuck

Not belittling you, but in forums I thought your know there's no transfer of messages like Mail.

Your message is in out box until it's read by the recipient.

Then it becomes Sent

Or more like status changes to sent.
Thanks! I've gotten used to emails where the messages are sometimes stuck to Outbox when there is a problem. I thought the message I sent needs to be approved by a mod or something(thus stuck in Outbox) since I'm still a newbie.

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Re: (Software Development)Tapping Into The Singaporean Market

Post by cogentbyte » Tue, 17 Oct 2017 4:39 pm

Strong Eagle wrote:
cogentbyte wrote:
Strong Eagle wrote:Who, or what kind of companies, are you identifying as your target market for your app development?
We are basically targeting anyone who needs web/mobile presence as well as firmware/hardware development. We are very new and are still trying to add in to our portfolio. We do have a Singaporean client(a company that I have worked with before starting Cogentbyte) that can give testimonials to my work.
"Anyone" is not a target. You will not succeed with "anyone" as the target. You must decided which segment of the market will be your specialty, then identify the companies you think would be interested, then identify the services you believe they would need from you.

Without such an approach, you have no way of creating your value add proposition. What will your five minute elevator speech sound like? "Gee, we can create anything for anybody?" No, I don't think so. Unless you can say something like, "We specialize in the creation of hardware level control software used by chip integrators in the next generation of smart appliances," or something like that, you are going to get nowhere at a high rate of speed.

You need to identify your target market... again, it's not "anyone"... there is no way you can succeed with such a broad, ill defined market segment. Imagine, for a moment, the guy that develops a new improved toothbrush. He thinks "everyone" will want to buy one. But, that's not the case at all. Only a certain segment of the population will buy his new toothbrush. People who are happy with their current toothbrush don't care. So, his target market is people who enjoy innovative products. Or maybe the toothbrush costs $50. So, his target market is further narrowed down to people who don't shop at the 5 cent store.

And if you can't identify which market segment you want to get into, it means you are in too much of a hurry. You need to do the research to identify where your possible matches with business entities (or the consumer market) would be and what sort of approach you would use to get your products and services in front of those matches.

Do you have a business plan? If not, you need one. Besides your target market, you need to know your competition, you need to develop your pricing structure, and you need to develop your sales plan, based on your marketing plan... sales and marketing are two completely different things.

And you're talking about selling when you can't yet identify exactly what you are selling and to whom you are selling it. "Everything" to "anyone" doesn't work.

That's my advice. Here's an outline of a business plan. You might not need all of it but you're going to want to think about most of it if you plan on succeeding. You may be able to pull off a startup without money, but you sure can't pull it off without a plan.

http://www.herberts.org/miscdocs/Sample ... ntents.pdf
Thanks for the tip. I agree that "anyone" is a generalized target but it is quite accurate because we also don't offer just one service. We plan to do mom and pop's websites, corporate ones, web and mobile apps combos, or just plain personal static landing web pages, hardware/firmware, etc. Offering our services to just a niche sector of the market when we are still new might make it even harder to get clients. Probably later on when we get to know what specific markets are going to be profitable then that's probably the time to start focusing on those? I understand what you're saying though that the company is offering a wide variety of services(i.e., web/desktop/mobile apps and firmware/hardware stuff) and that value add proposition is difficult to create. Do you think it is a good idea to split our services and put them into two separate companies?

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Re: (Software Development)Tapping Into The Singaporean Market

Post by Strong Eagle » Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:04 pm

cogentbyte wrote:We plan to do mom and pop's websites, corporate ones, web and mobile apps combos, or just plain personal static landing web pages, hardware/firmware, etc.
Hey! Why not wash cars and add a personal shopper service as well? You cannot be all things to all people. You're not starting a company, it sounds a lot more like you're a contractor looking for a job, any job.

Nothing wrong with that but that's not how companies get started.

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