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Tell me what advice worked or didn't work when you implement it in your own business. It makes me happier than anything else, businesswise.

by patio11 12y ago

ufmace 12y ago
I used your salary negotiation piece, among other sources, to negotiate a ~15% boost in my offer at the company I started at about a year ago. Most money I ever made from a 3-sentence email and a 5-minute phone call.
- patio11 12y ago
  High five.
- austinsharp 12y ago
  I too benefited greatly from the negotiation piece (got the signing bonus from the offer I didn't want from the company with the offer where I did want to work) and it's become part of my standard package of advice and resources for friends looking for software jobs. Thank you!!
- NamTaf 12y ago
  It was also the first thing I looked up when negotiating on my position I start next month. I've secured a 10% raise upfront, with a further 15% + access to a max. 25% yearly bonus arranged once I get a qualification in the first quarter of the new year. It took a little bit to map the software eng. assumptions to a mech eng. role such as my own (especially given the market is terrible for me right now where I am) but it paid off in dividends for me. So thank you so much!
Silhouette 12y ago
In case it's of any interest/satisfaction, I appreciate your posts not just for the insights and data you generously share, but also for giving me something I can link to for the ninety-something percent of people I work with who could benefit from some of the same ideas but don't hang out on sites like HN themselves.
- patio11 12y ago
  Thanks, glad to hear that.
icelancer 12y ago
Your insights on software development and pricing have directly influenced how I run a sports science and training company. I think your work is directly applicable to many other industries, because duh, it's just entrepreneurship done right.
- yuhong 12y ago
  I wonder if you have considered updating your about page.
  - icelancer 12y ago
    Unfortunately I do enough data science that I leave it in there. :P
mtrimpe 12y ago
For what it's worth; the main component of your success I can't figure out how to replicate is ranking for your keyword. From my perspective your business model seems to be: 1. Pick a niche and figure out keywords for that niche. 2. Perform the Magic SEO Incantation to rank high in Google. 3. Sell well to the visitors that gets you. I can do 1 and 3 fairly well; partially based on your talks/information. Number 2 still seems like sheer black magic to me though...
- patio11 12y ago
  This is rather different for Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder. For BCC, see the numerous articles on my www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ page about content creation/SEO. It's fairly straightforward -- nobody else on the Internet wants to rank for [owls of east asia bingo cards], I do, I win by default. For AR, the entirety of the magic incantation is a) getting a small handful of links to it and b) exact match domain name for [appointment reminder]. I'm literally embarrassed that this is the only thing I've done. I mean, I knew it would work, and it did work, but I have always felt like I should be doing substantially more and more complicated marketing.

Tell me what advice worked or didn't work when you implement it in your own business. It makes me happier than anything else, businesswise.

by patio11 12y ago

Tell me what advice worked or didn't work when you implement it in your own business. It makes me happier than anything else, businesswise.

ufmace 12y ago

I used your salary negotiation piece, among other sources, to negotiate a ~15% boost in my offer at the company I started at about a year ago. Most money I ever made from a 3-sentence email and a 5-minute phone call.

patio11 12y ago
High five.
austinsharp 12y ago
I too benefited greatly from the negotiation piece (got the signing bonus from the offer I didn't want from the company with the offer where I did want to work) and it's become part of my standard package of advice and resources for friends looking for software jobs. Thank you!!
NamTaf 12y ago
It was also the first thing I looked up when negotiating on my position I start next month. I've secured a 10% raise upfront, with a further 15% + access to a max. 25% yearly bonus arranged once I get a qualification in the first quarter of the new year. It took a little bit to map the software eng. assumptions to a mech eng. role such as my own (especially given the market is terrible for me right now where I am) but it paid off in dividends for me. So thank you so much!

Silhouette 12y ago

In case it's of any interest/satisfaction, I appreciate your posts not just for the insights and data you generously share, but also for giving me something I can link to for the ninety-something percent of people I work with who could benefit from some of the same ideas but don't hang out on sites like HN themselves.

patio11 12y ago
Thanks, glad to hear that.

icelancer 12y ago

Your insights on software development and pricing have directly influenced how I run a sports science and training company. I think your work is directly applicable to many other industries, because duh, it's just entrepreneurship done right.

yuhong 12y ago
I wonder if you have considered updating your about page.
- icelancer 12y ago
  Unfortunately I do enough data science that I leave it in there. :P

mtrimpe 12y ago

For what it's worth; the main component of your success I can't figure out how to replicate is ranking for your keyword. From my perspective your business model seems to be: 1. Pick a niche and figure out keywords for that niche. 2. Perform the Magic SEO Incantation to rank high in Google. 3. Sell well to the visitors that gets you. I can do 1 and 3 fairly well; partially based on your talks/information. Number 2 still seems like sheer black magic to me though...

patio11 12y ago
This is rather different for Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder. For BCC, see the numerous articles on my www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ page about content creation/SEO. It's fairly straightforward -- nobody else on the Internet wants to rank for [owls of east asia bingo cards], I do, I win by default. For AR, the entirety of the magic incantation is a) getting a small handful of links to it and b) exact match domain name for [appointment reminder]. I'm literally embarrassed that this is the only thing I've done. I mean, I knew it would work, and it did work, but I have always felt like I should be doing substantially more and more complicated marketing.