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I was reading a post by Robert Plank recently about your product funnel, and it’s been playing at the back of my mind a bit.

And today, I had a brainstorm!

I had a list of my forthcoming products/projects in front of me, and I realised that many of them (I think it’s 15) could all share one common database – a list of your domains.

Each product then hangs off that list of domains (plus associated data such as expiry date, host, registrar, and so on), so that you have ONE list of domains that is shared across Caffeinated Content Scheduler, the Cpanel Backup script, and the other 13 yet-to-be-named products.

And I’m quite excited by this. For my own use as well as for a product range to market.

So that’s my plan for this year, if I can get it to all hang together! One central application (which will be free), and 15 others which are effectively very powerful plugins to that script.

Watch this space for more info!

I’ve got a couple of things to do on RSS Promoter, one of which is to share how to add your own RSS submission sites to the software, and the other is to add some more sites myself and share with the customers.

But after that, I’ll be working on my “Which Project Next?” software. This is a smart little application (says me, so it must be true), in which I can input a list of projects that I might work on next, and rate them according to my own PERSONAL list of criteria. I can then weight those criteria (so, for example, “Promised to Previous Customers” makes a project far more important than “It’ll be fun to do!”).

The software then crunches the numbers, and tells me which project should be my next one.

I’ll share more news when it’s available.