Jog My Memory is an email & SMS reminder service designed (way back in 2007) to help you remember all the stuff you inevitably would forget without such a service.

I started it because I was forgetting things like birthdays, meetings & anniversaries and it was growing to be a problem.  Sure I could set up my phone to beep a reminder at me but there are a few problems with that approach...

1. When I upgrade my phone (once every 2 years on my contract), I have to copy all my reminders across.  Pain in the butt, especially if the new phone isn't using the same OS as the old phone.
2. I hate typing on my phone.  No really, it's miserable.  Even with my slide-out QWERTY keyboard, I just don't like it.

So I created www.JogMyMemory.co.za and got a couple of people using it.  The trouble is that, back then, I wasn't very good at running a business so it never got promoted.  If anything, I've learned that promoting your products is the most important thing to do after creating it - even more important than improving your product!  Because once you have more people using it, you'll quickly learn where to spend more time developing it to improve it.  Also, it helps to have some money in your back pocket to fund the development.

Anyway, I digress.  The site was used by about 2 people on a consistent basis and never really went any where.  About a week ago, I decided to upgrade all the moving parts in the site (so to speak), improved the interface, simplified the signup process, worked out a pricing system for the SMS reminders and re-launched.

I relaunched by advertising on Facebook - my favourite way to advertise these days! :)

So far, I've got 4 new people signed up and 1 potential investor.  Clearly, I've learned a lot in the past 2 years and, clearly, promoting your products is a good idea. *duh*

Well, if you'd like to try it out, go sign up at www.JogMyMemory.co.za.  It's a free, quick and painless signup and, once you're registered, you've immediately got access to free email reminders.  Once you've decided you're comfortable with that, I'd recommend buying a coupla SMSes as that's the REALLY useful bit.  My phone's always with me and I've never forgotten something I've put into Jog My Memory.  That's got to be worth something, right? ;)