I’m doing two part interviews with bloggers on two of my personal sites. I’m excited to have Craig from Budget Pulse answer a few of my questions on this new project. The first part is here at Vega Baja Productions . The second part is on Green Panda Treehouse. If you’re a blogger and wouldn’t mind being interviewed, please feel free to contact me.
How long have you been blogging?
I have been blogging for about 8 months now although I manage the blog more with what other writers contribute. I enjoy writing simple pieces geared towards those in a similar age bracket and situation as me. Talking about ways to enjoy being active but also being frugal are topics I enjoy blogging about and discussing with others about new ways to go about having fun without spending an arm and a leg.
Who is your target audience on the site?
Our target audience for the BudgetPulse software is anyone who is looking for a simple software to help them with their budgeting needs. We pride ourselves on having a simple tool that the everyday person can use with ease but has the necessary functionality to help people get to the nitty gritty of budgeting. For the blog we treat it as the same way and know that our audience varies in age and knowledge and keep more informative and light hearted and fun posts that they can relate to.
With the Rudder situation, how does BudgetPulse compare?
It was a tough hit for the whole online budgeting software companies when the Rudder news broke. I have personally met the owners and they are good guys and I feel for them in their situation. But it is an isolated event and hopefully users can not look down on the industry as a whole.
Our situation is different because we do not and will never sync with banks. Identity theft is very serious and something we do not want to risk for ourselves, and do not want to put our users at risk either. Their situation was also based off the fact that there was issues with the email system something that we currently do not do. Especially with a start-up it is hard to develop trust from users, and we are taking all security measures to prove we are trustworthy to our users, and that is one of the main reasons we do not sync with banks.
What do you hope to accomplish in the next year with BudgetPulse?
We have worked extremely hard over the past few months to develop a completely brand new revamped site for BudgetPulse that will be released in mid June for everyone. The site will be visually enhanced, easier to navigate, will have improved content and functionality, and even video tutorials. For the fun of it as well we are working on some humorous videos for everyone to sit back and enjoy for a quick minute.
Once the new release is out in June, we will get right back to working on our next release which will bring a group fund functionality, working on an iphone app, more extensive charts, and in the future will look to have the site in multiple languages for all our international users. This is just a small list of items we will be working on.
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