QwikChord.com

We are proud to be working with the fine folks at worshipguitarworkshop.com, and will be hosting some of their excellent instructional articles here at QwikChord.com!

They have been long-time QwikChord users, and have been instrumental in providing feedback and testing as we have updated the product.

Whether you are a musician in a worship band or not, these are a great resource for getting more out of your guitar, and improving yourself as a musician.

The best part? They make it ~fun~!

Visit Guitar Instruction at QwikChord.com for the article index.

This year has been a trial for most of us, and for those of us a QwikChord.com, it has been no exception.

I wrote the original QwikChord (at that time called QuickChord until some enterprising company decided to register the name!) back in 2003, and for years this has been a one-man business that was more about working with all the great musicians out there than it was about making money.

In 2007 it became too big to be a “hobby” anymore, and began considering giving up the project because it was taking too much time away from my real job as a software developer. Several long-time users (you know who you are!) convinced me that I really had something unique here and that it was worth turning into a legitimate business.

At that point, with the help of a couple partners, we began the journey to re-write and sell QwikChord as a retail product.

I’ll admit… I didn’t think people would buy it, even though we were offering it at a very reasonable price.

I was wrong! Even though we do not make a huge profit on QwikChord, we make enough to cover our expenses, and the cost of having support that can solve problems with a fairly quick turnaround.

2010 is one of those bump-in-the-road years… We were all very excited to be releasing a Mac OSX version of QwikChord, as many artists are die-hard Mac users (myself included!), and we had made substantial headway toward getting a finished product up for sale.

Sadly, our partner and Mac developer had to drop out of working on this project, and our operating budget is too low to enable us to hire a developer at this time, so we are shelving the Mac OSX release.

Like many businesses today, we are looking at our core business. What do we do best? What is our vision?

“Do one thing. Do it exceptionally well.”

While we would ~love~ to offer a Mac version right now, the core of the business that is paying the bills and keeping the doors open is the Windows version. Our client base grows primarily because we proactively add features. So this is where we will focus our efforts, and we are confident that in the near future we will find a Mac developer and guitar-fanatic that is interested in taking part of this project.

Until then, we will do what we do best!