I’ve created a new website:

Goal Helper

For now it is simply a WordPress blog with one post, the main point of which is to link to a survey.  This survey, and the method I am using to get people to complete the survey, are the really interesting aspects of this project.

In short: Amazon Mechanical Turk.

It’s a game-changer for market research, marketing, and product development.  I’ll discuss this later in my next blog entry, but for now I just want to share some preliminary results of my market research, data that was obtained using Mechanical Turk and a Google Docs form.

Most people get help from family and friends in meeting their goals.

Weekly assistance seems to be the most popular.

A quarter of the Turkers are interested in subscribing to this service. Bonus: I have their email addresses!

Most would not pay very much, but a premium version would not go unsold.

About a third are interested in becoming Goal Helpers.

This data is very preliminary, but I am expecting another 60 survey responses in the next few days.  I’ll keep you posted.

Chris
Founder
GoalHelper.net

Here’s news:

I imported all of the posts from my old Blogspot site, chrishaum.blogspot.com, so they are now all nice and accessible in one convenient location (i.e. the ‘archives’ bar on the right).

The hacker theme got boring quickly, so we’ll see if this theme sticks.

If you are interested, feel free to peruse the archives.  I was really into photography from May 2005 to January 2006, unique photography.  Stuff like this:

The eyes are the window to the soul – unless you don’t have one.

Carnation power.

A foiled human sacrifice.

That's right - a huge penny.

I’m off to bed now, but I’ll be back soon with the latest and greatest things from my life.