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By James Barnes
short-reads
Do You Really Need a Meeting? Thinking on Your Feet!
2 min read Meetings should be focused on two or three points only. They should be no longer than 20 minutes. Any longer than this and not only does attention start to wander – phones get picked up and emails start getting replied to – but beyond this point conversations tend to become circular. It becomes a zero sum game.
James Barnes
February 11, 2016
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Dublin SaaS Meet-up
< 1 min read We will be at the Dublin SaaS meet-up, with talks from other entrepreneurs & leaders in SaaS, we hope to meet & learn from plenty of people.
James Barnes
October 29, 2015
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Customer Churn –You feel Sick in the Stomach?
4 min read On this page we cover the importance of measuring and monitoring your churn and how it should be considered against other metrics.
James Barnes
October 23, 2015
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Forget Active. Get Engaged
4 min read Whether you’re a start-up founder or a SaaS CEO, determining KPIs to measure your business’ success isn’t easy, but important to right.
James Barnes
October 21, 2015
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Why Do Your Customers Choose To Fly With You?
3 min read Your customers have other options when it comes to SaaS providers, so it’s important to understand why they chose you over your competitors.
James Barnes
October 19, 2015
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SaaS-Berg Ahead – 3 Tips on What to Do When Growth Stops
4 min read Whether you’re a SaaS start-up that’s had VC investment or bootstrapped by its founders you’ll always have those ups-and-downs; particularly in the early days. But whether it takes you 6 months, 2 years, 5 years or however long to reach that Eureka moment where everything takes off you’ll still hit a point where growth which
James Barnes
October 13, 2015
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Price Rises, Changing Plans & Treating Customers Fairly
4 min read Whether you’ve owned, managed, or worked for a SaaS start-up you’ll know there are some decisions that are easy to take. These are the no-brainers that are determined within seconds. As far as you can tell there are no downsides from going full-steam ahead at the instant push of a button. And then there are
James Barnes
October 11, 2015
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You Always Remember Your First Love & Your First Customers
3 min read They say you always remember your first love. As a founder pushing your product live for the very first time you also remember those first customers. There is quite simply nothing like it. Having built the product, and hoisted it into the world-wide-web, you sit back and you wait. You’re never quite sure whether anyone
James Barnes
October 9, 2015
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Be Proactive with Website Monitoring, Not Reactive
3 min read There is a fine art to running an online business, but there is an even finer line between success and failure. Let’s imagine a scenario, launching an average online store. You’ll have to remember the SEO, the usability, getting across the right branding… so much to remember… It’s okay because although you’ve spent night after
James Barnes
September 15, 2015
Product & Updates
New Feature: Push Monitoring
< 1 min read With our newest feature “Push Monitoring” we are allowing you to enable reverse monitoring which will give you a whole new angle on the experience. Instead of us contacting your server at certain intervals, you can now configure a push to us. Simply log in to your StatusCake account to start using this impressive function
James Barnes
August 6, 2015
Product & Updates
New Feature : Maintenance Windows
< 1 min read Here you can set up windows by entering the desired start time and duration, the time zone used will match the one selected in the user details section of the account.
James Barnes
July 29, 2015
Product & Updates
New Feature: Blacklist Monitoring
< 1 min read Recently we released a brand new feature on StatusCake called Blacklist Monitoring which our customers can use to check if their website has been added to various internet blacklists which many users incorporate into their browsing experience to avoid spam and malware. we have added 15 of the biggest lists to our selection to start,
James Barnes
July 28, 2015
Product & Updates
SSL Validation & Renewal Alerts
< 1 min read At StatusCake.com we make sure that you can see at a glance that your SSL certificate is valid, and when your certificate comes up for renewal we’ll send you a reminder a week before it expires. Well send out a reminder, along with any certificate errors we discover, to the Contact Group you’ve got set-up for that website
James Barnes
February 13, 2015
Product & Updates
Alternative To Pingability
< 1 min read If you’re looking for an alternative to Pingability then StatusCake is the perfect website monitoring service for you. StatusCake’s free uptime monitoring is feature-packed and easy-to-use. Unlike Pingability which will only check your website’s uptime every hour, StatusCake ensures you’re on top of downtime by checking your website’s availability every 5 minutes. And unlike Pingability,
James Barnes
February 13, 2015
Product & Updates
Alternative to downforeveryoneorjustme.com
< 1 min read StatusCake is the best and free alternative to downforeveryoneorjustme. Not only can it tell you when you login whether your website is up or down – and you can use StatusCake’s tools to check uptime and performance from a number of locations around the world, it will also alert you the moment there’s an issue with your site.
James Barnes
February 13, 2015
Product & Updates
Alternative To SiteUptime.com
2 min read At StatusCake free website monitoring doesn’t mean waiting an age for your website to be checked. We offer 5 minute monitoring on your websites – however many websites you’ve got!
James Barnes
February 13, 2015
Product & Updates
Monitoring StatusCake… With StatusCake
2 min read How does the monitor, monitor the monitor? No it’s not a tongue twister, but rather a question we faced when StatusCake started to be joined by big companies such as the BBC, NHS, EA to name but a few. What do we do? StatusCake now monitors over 250,000 websites and has tens of thousands of
James Barnes
January 15, 2015
Product & Updates
Performance Data
< 1 min read At StatusCake there’s more to website monitoring that just sending alerts when your website goes down. Within your StatusCake account you have full access to all the data you need to gauge the performance of your website.
James Barnes
January 1, 2015
Engineering
New Role – Developer
2 min read As a developer you will be responsible, initially, for assisting with technical customer support. This grounding will help you understand how we work as a team, and give you the best possible understanding of our product, code base and customers. The scope of the role will increase once the right candidate has a good knowledge of this.
James Barnes
September 15, 2014
Blog
New Role – Customer Relations Agent (North America)
2 min read Posted: September 2014 Job Role: Customer Relations Agent (North America) Job Type: Contract – Full Time / Part Time Location: Remote Working Purpose of the Role & Responsibilities: We are looking for a self-motivated individual with customer services expertise to come and work with the StatusCake.com team. Customer relations is a full-time job on a
James Barnes
September 13, 2014
short-reads
The Internet is In Danger, Help Protect It.
2 min read Industry giants like Microsoft can send data at exactly the same speed as a smaller company like StatusCake. This means despite StatusCake not having anywhere near the budget of Microsoft , on a purely technological basis at least, it’s a level playing field.
James Barnes
September 10, 2014
Blog
New Role – Customer Relations Agent (Asia / Australia)
2 min read We are looking for a self-motivated individual with customer services expertise to come and work with the StatusCake team.
James Barnes
September 1, 2014
Blog
Jobs at StatusCake.com
3 min read Our StatusCake product has over 85,000 customers. We’re passionate about ensuring that the customer experience remains as good today as that first day when we launched. When we had more StatusCake staff than customers! That’s quite a challenge!
James Barnes
September 1, 2014
Product & Updates
Slack Support for Downtime Alerts
2 min read We have continued to roll out support for great 3rd party apps and today we are happy to announce StatusCake has put live support for the up and coming real time communication platform – Slack. Slack is an IRC like environment for your team to be able to communicate with each other, we have seen
James Barnes
August 8, 2014