Confidently launch like the wizkids that you are

Get there faster with WizKid

WizKid provides software services and components to help small developers get their ideas to market.

Sometimes all that is required is a simple introduction, or a purchase suggestion. Maybe it requires research. Maybe we offload a key role or task that is distracting you from your highest value activity. Or maybe it's contributing just the right element to move your program forward.

We start by carefully listening to your unique goals and understanding your limits before making appropriate recommendations that might help the team achieve objectives more quickly. That's it.

In any case it starts with learning about you. Only then can we know whether there's anything we can propose to help you get to market faster, better, or cheaper.

First we listen and we learn

What are your goals, your dreams, your plans, your assets.

We help you determine what you still need

Let's prioritize the risks and gaps worth eliminating now and agree on how to do that.

Let's figure out how all this crap is related.

We look at what you have

How prepared are you for success and what gaps and risks can we define.

And we help you find it

Then we source it or solve it so you can focus on adding value for your target audience more effectively and with less risk and distractions.

We know, it seemed simple at the onset, but then it got complicated

Believe us, a very complex program can emerge from a simple business concept. Keeping focused and minmizing the juggling of resources among conflicting requirements can be a drag on your energy. Let's see if we can find cost effective ways to get some of those required elements off your plate. Maybe many of the things you think you need to do, you don't need to do.

Always be SMART

Products and markets are always races. You need to be SMART about where you spend your limited resources.

A well defined need

With specific measurable basis for progress

Defined in an attainable way for the resources available

That's clearly realistic and relevant to the mission

With clearly defined limits for measuring progress or outeoms

Never forget why you decided to do this

"In my first business the responsibility and pressure to produce caused me to forget why I wanted to be in business."

"Becoming my own boss meant doing all the back-office things I couldn't outsource, and hiring people to do the very things I had envisioned for myself before venturing out on my own."

Don't let the distractions become the business and take the fun, passion and drive out of living your 'dream.'

"Are we working on only the most important things to further our mission, or everything that we think 'needs' to be done?"

Probably the biggest mistake when starting my first business was not challenging myself about whether every task I did was the best use of my limited time and resources -- relative to mission. Why do I choose to do this task myself? Do I need to do this next thing more than any other? The answer for most of these should have been no. I should have prioritized myself like an agile software resource, instead of treating most tasks as equally important. I always felt as if working harder was the key to reaching my goals.

Stephen Arnett, previous wizkid

What are some things we might do together?

What can we actually do to help you get products into the hands of buyers sooner?

Create a GoTo Market Plan

Let's jointly define what you need to do in order to convert your business plan into a market presence.

Network and Promote You

Let's get you in front of the people who can help you and shout out to the world what you have to offer.

Create a launch plan

Let's define the key goals and requirements for a successful launch and their dependencies. Then execute it.

Build a Social Presence

Let's get you a social and advertising presence or hire an agency to manage an ongoing program.

Find Partners To Fill Gaps

Let's figure out what you don't do or don't want to do and then define how to fill those gaps in the plan.

Time to Grow

How about we do that thing where you get bigger, you know, like you planned. Let's blow this pop stand.

We don't actually recommend standing on the tip of an arrow in high-heels. But if you can, wow.

How we spend 339% of our time

What percentage of our projects have these elements present.

WordPress and Web Server Mngmnt

75%

Product Management

55%

Graphics, Content and Development

50%

Advertising & Marketing Mngmnt

60%

MS Excel and PowerPoint Charts

99%

We try to simpify otherwise complex product delivery processes

Getting the most out of your hard work is, uh, hard. We help you organize and do the 'other' stuff required to get your product out and promoted to the world. We build the processes around you to get you back to making something people want.

5000+

Dollars spent on caffeine

500+

People love us as much as our moms

Hamsters can't be wrong

1000+

Cornflakes in every serving

"Wizkid helped me learn to love hamsters again." Shellon
Software Developer

"Wizkid helped me to discover the airspeed velocity of an unladen European sparrow." Rose
Web Developer

"Wizkid helped us determine if our network could survive a cornflake catastrophe." Martin
Network Engineer

"Finally I'm working on the things I set out to do." Aaron
Entrepreneur