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by WillyF 16y ago
Having had a Groupon shouldn't preclude a business from offering other promotions. Typically you can't combine a Groupon with another offer, so if a restaurant has 20% off Mondays and you use a Groupon, they'll probably charge you full pric
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by WillyF 16y ago
I've never heard the term "lobster profitable." What does it mean?
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by WillyF 16y ago
The article says that 23% of students are "college ready" in NYC. That's probably way too low, but what is the goal? I hope it's not 100%. College isn't for everyone, and I think that it's misguided to make college preparation the primary g
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by WillyF 16y ago
It looks to me as though they should try the original headline without the social proof. Since the Control beat Variation 1, but Variation 2 beat both, that would seem to be a logical next step.
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by WillyF 16y ago
"Job creation" at its finest.
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by WillyF 16y ago
I think it's a different issue, but Google Analytics is terrible about breaking the back button. It drives me crazy every day.
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by WillyF 16y ago
Would you rather have them spend hours replying to thousands of e-mails from companies they don't want to cover? Or spend the time covering more companies? I know it sucks not to get a response, but that's the way they operate. My company w
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by WillyF 16y ago
I think that they must have transposed the labels. The graph must mean that a student who goes into Harvard leaves an $80,000 a year salary and after two years gets a $115,000 a year salary. That doesn't tell us all that much unless we know
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by WillyF 16y ago
I completely understand why you'd question my motives. I thought really hard about whether I should post this example or not. I tried to find an alternative example that would demonstrate the same problem, but this is the only one that I co
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by WillyF 16y ago
Matt, this is great news. How about sites that rank well with no content, just navigation? Here's an example: http://www.collegegrad.com/entryleveljob/entrylevelaccountin... It's generally a high quality site, but that page has absolutely
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by WillyF 16y ago
Unwillingness to invest in themselves or work towards improving themselves (or a lack of realization that they need to do these things). Most job seekers have a "take me as I am" attitude. Even new grads who should be all pumped up about le
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by WillyF 16y ago
You hit on the second biggest flaw that I spot in job seekers (and startup founders). They focus too much on their own wants/needs and not enough on the needs of the people they're trying to sell to.
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by WillyF 16y ago
As someone whose startup is focused on helping new grads land jobs, I've learned that most job seekers focus on the job search process. They try to find better jobs, improve their resume, network, and do other things that will help them sel
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by WillyF 16y ago
I don't think that not wanting to invest in someone who has recently shown a complete failure in judgment is much of a limiting belief. If you can't take other people's lives seriously, how can you be expected to take other people's money s
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by WillyF 16y ago
Most of this post was over my head since I'm not a programmer, but I really enjoyed the part where Stammy explained what caused his site's revenue to fall. I'll be interested to see how this change affects his search rankings.
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by WillyF 16y ago
I have a friend who works at a well known management consulting firm. One of his clients insisted that every deck was done in Comic Sans. The client already had a bad reputation, and this quirk just made it worse.
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by WillyF 16y ago
Even if search engines stop sending keywords in referral data, the ad networks and webmasters will still be able to piece together your browsing history. Every day there is less and less anonymity on the web, and for the most part people ar
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by WillyF 16y ago
I got rid of domain privacy a few years ago. I don't get all that much spam to my personal e-mail account which is associated with my domains. I've also heard that some people see domain privacy as a sign of a potentially scammy/spammy site
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by WillyF 16y ago
I agree on the hyphens, but I disagree strongly with your suggestion that mycv.com won't get a bonus for relevance to the term cv. I've seen plenty of sites with inferior link profiles (to the sites below them in the search results) rank be
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by WillyF 16y ago
In response to the subject, I do. But the site and domains don't really fit in with what I'm doing. Thanks for offering this up though.
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Optimize E-mail Marketing for Gmail’s Priority Inbox(mashable.com)
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by WillyF 16y ago
Yes, there's probably a bubble right now. And this is the kind of investment that will make you look like an idiot if it blows up. But I have to think someone like Brad Feld, whose firm was part of this investment, is pretty confident in th
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by WillyF 16y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon restricts your account to one of these gift certificates somehow. The deal description said "no gifting allowed." Still, a separate e-mail address, credit card, and Amazon account would be an almost s
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by WillyF 16y ago
If you really wanted to get multiple deals, wouldn't it make more sense to just make another LivingSocial account with a different e-mail address? That way if/when they invalidate all of the orders from people who ordered more than 1, you w
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by WillyF 16y ago
I was a recent college grad who was struggling with the job search process. I wasn't finding many companies that I was excited about working for, so I started thinking about how I could make the process better for people like me. A failed j
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by WillyF 16y ago
You could list them here and see if anyone else could use them.
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by WillyF 16y ago
I did the same. They also started pumping out too much content and added too many additional authors. I loved reading their blog posts, but it became work to keep up with everything.
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by WillyF 16y ago
I agree that your product should be your #1 focus. Lots of users landing on a site that offers a poor experience is a waste. However, the problem with that is that investments in SEO compounds over time. Not only are aged links valuable, bu
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by WillyF 16y ago
The only thing worse than having a very high percentage of your traffic come from Google is not having it at all. My sites typically get 75% of their traffic from search engines. I know that it could be all gone tomorrow, so I've worked on
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by WillyF 16y ago
If SEO is going to part of your strategy and it's an exact match domain, then you could reasonably spend 4, 5, or even 6 figures. Internships.com is a good example of an expensive domain that was bought for a startup - here's a Mixergy inte

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