Fantastic post. I did a rough version of this for a while and it works great. One thing I didn't think of was closing the feedback loop like you suggested. Usua

Fantastic post. I did a rough version of this for a while and it works great. One thing I didn't think of was closing the feedback loop like you suggested. Usually I did that myself through the form of a casual gift (beer, etc) but I can see your way being much more effective. Its really amazing how well this works too. I recently made the jump from tech to advertising, and I actually built us to ramen profitable doing exactly this. The trick was a bit of pro bono work at the beginning to light the fuse.