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by ahoyhere 14y ago
How many times can a "mistake" or "confusing design" be "not as bad as it sounds" until it's clear that that is, in fact, their strategy?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
YES. Thank you. If you hate drunken frat boys, don't open an Irish pub. Everything you do attracts a certain kind of person. Better do it deliberately, or you'll screw yourself.
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I can't remember which book I read it in, but no, it wasn't about the focal infection, but rather the inflammation markers. Inflammation changes blood chemistry (blood cell mix, the "stickiness," and other chemical markers) and there's good
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
My advice is not to listen to the no doubt tiny percentage of people complaining about the email delivery. Hard fact of business: if people hate commerce, they won't buy from you. It's a mistake to tailor your business around people you can
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Er, opting in to get a freebie IS permission marketing. Exactly so. Getting a free ebook isn't compulsory.
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I wrote about niches vs worldviews and even included a free lesson from my class, because it's such an important & under-reported topic: http://unicornfree.com/2011/niches-are-for-suckers/ When I said Nathan was throwing away every ad
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Ruben, thanks for chiming in with your experience! You had development experience and could tell what was going on… and Nathan didn't, which is why I was discouraging him from that route. I personally don't know anyone w/o dev chops who ful
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
We have to draw a line between "Customers" as in "Customer interviews" as in "People I want to learn about to maybe build something for who MIGHT become actual customers with money later" -- and actual customers, who are already paying you
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
The issues with Charm have absolutely nothing to do with my position on outsourcing. They're two unrelated points that occurred in the same conversation :) It wasn't the development that was the issue. It was the preview of things to come,
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FWIW, I never claimed to build everything myself… and we (my husband & I) made extensive use of freelance developers, support people, etc. Where do you think the $200k on Charm went? Not to my salary :) Charm would have been an enormous
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It depends more on your definition of "know." :) Serious question: Isn't Rob originally a developer? We outsource a lot of our development too, but outsourcing part (even if it's a large part) as a developer is very different than outsourci
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Alternatives: taxi, Zipcar, rideshare, Uber, renting a car, leasing a car. It's a pretty good metaphor because you really don't need to buy a car to go "decently far away" at all. A one-time car service charge of $1k is a lot better than a
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Flossing isn't about your teeth so much as it is about your gum health. Nasties that get in your gums will get into your blood stream, and there's a high correlation between gum inflammation and generalized inflammation, even heart attacks.
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I would like to add that those of us who knew Aaron (however briefly) can say that rarely is anyone as simple & admirable in reality as they are painted in obituaries. Was Aaron a good person? Did he mean well? Certainly. But our relati
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Keep up the good work… seriously. Remember, depression lies, so it's no surprise that people argue against you simply trying to help a fellow human being.
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It's painful to go through life so angry. Serious question: would you prefer to die now, or to feel a little less angry and disappointed every day? I also found therapists to be useless, and probably like you I was too smart for my own good
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No, if you want to be logical, it's clear that suicide is rarely the right choice, and that it's the suicidal person whose critical thinking abilities are impaired. It's simple: Most people who feel suicidal are feeling suicidal because of/
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I disabled all 3rd party access to my Twitter account. Every single one. Yeah I had to re-enable my Twitter client… worth it. YOU SHOULD ALSO disable any Oauth access to your Gmail account. If you're like me, you trusted a few "email as a g
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The only line in your comment that matters is: > I think they do. You are making all kinds of pronouncements based on your opinion, which isn't based on data. Imagine if people who read it are discouraged from taking action because they
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>I am describing the market segment of early adopters. Right, with the assumption that A) developers are my audience and B) developers behave like early adopters. Now you fan out your description from "developers" to "creatives." Do cre
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
We recently bought a car in cash ($27k all told) and it HURT. I really didn't want to do it, but we couldn't get a loan for various reasons (namely we didn't have PA driver's licenses yet!). This was when we had over 6 figures in the bank.
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Not outright; you implied it. By saying: > "how to make more money doing X" and then 6 months later writing a blog post saying "how I made $Y selling a book/course on how to make more money doing X". Which is not what Brennan is doing o
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The only way to deal with very large companies is to think like Machievelli. How to measure the success of a consulting company? Well, you have to ask "What are they REALLY hiring the consultants for for?" Probably a third of the jobs I was
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Yeah, it's definitely disheartening that success takes time and the willingness to do different things to make it work. Really disappointing how life isn't like a movie. Also, hate to disappoint you again, but when it comes to a paying prod
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Sponsorships are really low impact, because they're a distraction to the thing people showed up for (the podcast, the event) and your CTA is by necessity very weak. I am anti-interruption marketing, and not just because it doesn't work.
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What makes you think our apps are aimed at developers? You don't have any data on our customers to say things that we have problems making sales, or that people "play with us" and switch easily.
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I can't figure out how you think that's "kinder" instead of "a compliment." What's so noble about gold mining, exactly? Or with a long-term impact? If I help 10 students build $100k/yr+ businesses, that's a $1 m/year impact I've made… which
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You don't have to do infoproducts. Who's telling you that you do? Not sure where you're getting this idea from. Because Brennan's current income is mostly from his book & courses? Because he used that money to free himself that much f
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Historically the return on traditional advertising sucks. I've had vastly superior results with content marketing and education than the advertising we've tried.
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> … selling "get rich fast schemes" That's a pretty serious accusation. Do you have any evidence to back that up? If you actually ready any of the things we wrote, I think you're going to find it really hard to find any suggestion that

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