SteveGerencser

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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
He and I have had a very close relationship for a very long time. That had a lot to do with him taking me seriously and me willing to spend the time needed to talk with him. While I call it a conversation, it was a lot of conversations over
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
I had a friend who was fired from, or quit, every job he had for nearly a decade. He response was always the same, "the boss is a moron" or "the people there are idiots". We had a long conversation where I laid it out fo
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
The same thing can happen with Google Ads Accounts. I've seen a several ad agencies get totally destroyed when a client does something that violates the TOS and then you get the 'guilt by association' ban. Then this propagate
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
Sounds about right. They wanted me to pay $180k for 10mb fiber to my place. It was a 12 mile pull for them with plenty of people along the way for them to sell to though.
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
It's been that way since the beginning. I went to a small school in Northern Indiana in the mid/late 80s. The board refused to invest in any computer technology other than the DEC they had because they felt that computers were a p
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
Right, but it doesn't go up and down like a jackhammer when the weather is rainy, windy, sunny, hot, cold, or dry. And yes, we are 3.1 miles from a CO and the nearest fiber drop is 14 miles from here. The service guys are at the CO res
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
Because I also have a wife that wanted to live in the country? Where people live is rarely about 1 single thing, it's a compromise between all the needs and wants. For us, living in the country on a small farm checked an awful lot of b
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
I prepaid for Starlink 4 or 5 months ago and just waiting for my turn to get it. We did talk about setting up a community point to point system but the 'old guys' that run the area are more interested in getting (forcing) more peo
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
We moved to a small rural community where a T1 isn't even available. I can get a 3Mb DSL connection or satellite. I have both because I need to redundancy. I did call to see what it would cost to have 'real' internet brought
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
Vaguely - This client was in the fitness niche and made the mistake if upsetting the vegan bodybuilder niche. The vegan bodybuilder group went hard after anyone that said it was harder to put on muscle with just plants. No shadiness, no spa
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
This isn't much different than when Google de-indexed millions of .co.cc domains. They determined that there were so many spammers on those domains that it was better to just remove them all and stop worrying about it. It did get a ver
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
I'm surprised it's taken this long for them to get somewhat serious about this. I've worked with clients who have hate brigades that report everything they do and publish in an effort to get their pages and ad accounts shut d
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
Early on 'dealers' would set up shop and build up the market for a particular car brand. In many cases the manufacturers would see which markets were 'best' and then setup their own sales floor directly competing with th
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
I always assumed that the movie Airborne killed it.
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
This was tried in many large cities in the 60s and 70s. The apartment buildings were ugly and generally became havens for gangs and crime. So.much so that most of them were eventually torn down. Cabrini Green is an example of this. Building
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
We used to refer to these things as press release politics. There is no goal to enforce any rule or punish anyone, they are designed for those on the political side to say, see, look how hard we are working for you, then the business consen
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
Very much this. I also work in wood and it amazes people that it can often be easier to make 5 or 10 of something than just one simply because of the jigs we make.
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But then he would have broken the law by passing a knowingly bad check.
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
The problem is much deeper than that for sellers. Enough negative reviews can end your ability to sell on Amazon. Add to that, reviews are part of the ranking algorithm, positive reviews will play a role in where you place in a product sear
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by SteveGerencser 5y ago
As someone that helps clients with their Amazon stores, this is not a surprise, what is the surprise is that so few people know about. Review scamming has been an issue on Amazon for a very long time and each time that Amazon rolls out a ne
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by SteveGerencser 6y ago
Many years ago I managed a small company that gave out bonuses. It was miserable for the most part. People did come to rely on those bonuses as if they were actual pay. I worked with the owner to develop a system where if the quarterly bonu
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by SteveGerencser 6y ago
Just think of all those low quality links placed there for SEO reasons that are about to vanish.
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by SteveGerencser 6y ago
I priced having a 10m fiber connection brought out here. I was quoted just over $5k/month with a minimum 3 year contract. I assume they were expecting me to just pay for the new service to the entire area for them to resell. Wife wante
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by SteveGerencser 6y ago
I love these posts. They remind me that there are places in the world where technology is moving forward. Where we live in Tennessee I have to run 2 internet connections to be able to have a service when I need it. 3gb DSL and a 5gb satelli
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by SteveGerencser 6y ago
I don't recall where I heard this, if it was a serious suggestion or a comedian, but the idea was simple. When a person reaches legal drinking age they get a drinking card allowing them to drink and buy alcohol. Not use their driver&#x
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by SteveGerencser 6y ago
Electric fences only encourage containment with our cows (Highlands). One of our bulls steps between the wires and lets the fence shock him on the back for minutes on end with him only moving slightly to reposition the shock. I think he is
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by SteveGerencser 6y ago
Very much this. I don't use Dropbox personally. But I have clients that use it extensively and when they all share large files with me I am suddenly in the pay tier just because someone added me to a folder with 100 10 minute videos in
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by SteveGerencser 6y ago
I'm not surprised by this a all. I do PPC for a living and I find that a lot of ad spend is totally wasted on paying for clicks that you would have gotten anyway, especially on Google and on Mobile devices. A lot of big brands bid on,
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by SteveGerencser 6y ago
Because there are no real fumes. No more than anywhere else, and there is more likely to be a gas station with a restaurant (pizza/chicken whatever) in it than a restaurant at all. Small 'town' down the road has one gas stati
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by SteveGerencser 6y ago
The nearest charging station to me is 45 miles away. I don't have an EV because it doesn't make sense for us living where we live. But I do end up driving by that one from time to time and it is always full.

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