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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Brennan is the only student of mine who created a how to make money type product, but of course, that's a gross simplification of what his consultancy training/workshop is. Compare to… Jarrod Drysdale http://bootstrappingdesign.com Jim
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
It's actually an extremely powerful marketing technique to tell people exactly who the product is wrong for. It's an extremely powerful marketing technique to shape the product from its very beginning to discourage certain types of customer
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"the ability to take advantage of people's generally trusting nature" --> Nothing like an ad hominem buried in the midst of a paragraph and then immediately denied as an ad hominem. Cite? What evidence do you have that bdunn is "taking
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Nobody has presented it like you are presenting it… you built a strawman, which handily you are able to knock it down.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If you know where I can hire decent Rails developers for $100 an hour or less, please let me know! That's not the kind of rate I see. Just a couple weeks ago a talented 15-year-old in Belarus told me his rate was $100/hr. And when I said "S
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Just one of my products, Freckle, makes $30,000 a month… more than 6x what you claim is impossible. On, what, you say? Time tracking. A space in which we are a tiny niche player. http://letsfreckle.com But there's no point in letting fact
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
In the case of ebay, though, it makes sense, because it's nearly ideal for shopping visually.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If you bought into Columbia House in the 90s, as I did, the math worked out to ~$10 average for each CD over a year (the 8-for-a-penny plus the full-price ones), back when they were $16 each at the local store. The promotional offer was an
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Do you not see a difference between a concerted effort to copy by multiple parties, with meetings and documents circulating which basically say "This is what we should copy," vs potentially one or two designers alone copying something which
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Actually, I beg to differ :) Talking to customers isn't nearly as effective as watching what they do, not what they say . Customers will tell you one thing all day long, then do another. Or they will have serious pains they suffer with eve
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You haven't read many JavaScript books then, have you?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"The problem is that books that try and sell me based on promising some improvement in my lifestyle usually set my BS radar off." Luckily for saturnflyer, nathanbarry, bdunn, and me, plus many others, that problem isn't a generalized one. A
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Well it's pretty clear what he means, if you ask me: someone's true potential is only reached when a guy named Acne_Researcher says it is.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Copying is competition in the same way that, if you want to attract your friend's girlfriend, you should buy copies of your friend's entire wardrobe and dress like your friend, talk like your friend, and walk like your friend.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If it's obvious, why didn't it exist on any of the touchscreen products which went before the iPhone?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
The debate wasn't, isn't, has never been about whether "commercial speech is First Amendment speech." The debate is whether you have evidence to support your claims that it's a very risky and legally actionable idea to offer a refund i
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Who other than you considers ebooks "printed"?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Are you seriously comparing a guy who says "Raise your professional service rates or your money back" to a guy peddling a snake oil cancer cure… or are you trolling to see what shakes out?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I was simply summarizing. Here are your exact words: "3. The problem is that the remaining 20% can take you at your word, demand a refund, explain that the book was lost in a fire, and succeed in wiping out your profit. 4. Worse, someone mi
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You state things in the present tense: "In modern publishing, there's no need -- books are printed, one copy at a time, when they are ordered… This change (electronic on-demand publishing) essentially wipes out the traditional publishing mo
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
To take your increase in traditional unemployment numbers and build on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_incarceration_timeline-... Incarceration rates: it's a hockey stick! Incarcerated people are all unemployed, and most of them,
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
It all makes sense when you realize that tech/startup media is Cosmo and People for nerds.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You are right. As a dropout, I only learned recently how many of my friends were struggling under monthly student loan debt of $50-80k with payments of $500-800. There goes car money, poof , or 20-45% of a mortgage payment for a reasonably
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Agreed, tatsuke95's comment is ridiculously out of proportion. My friends are all middle class, with two exceptions who are upper middle class -- myself & my husband, and another married couple who run a software business like we do. Th
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I think we all know what Print on Demand is, but that Wikipedia page doesn't list any proof for your assertion that it is "the coming thing." The only publishers it lists as offering POD are specialty POD publishers. That's hardly the sweep
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I see. So where do your very strong assertions about the folly of money-back guarantees come from? Data? Experience? Do you have friends who've done it? I ask because I have lots of experience with it -- with 4 products offering total money
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"This is not the norm in publishing, at least, the desirable kind." Ah, it's good you said that. I always thought publishers like O'Reilly and Pragmatic Programmers were totally undesirable. Now I can point out why. "In modern publishing,
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I can't tell who you think is being served poorly by this. The people who can get their money back immediately if they are disappointed? The same people who might preorder any other kind of book on Amazon.com? The reviewers, who theoretical
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
So you've offered a results-guaranteed return policy for your book, and you had a bad experience? I'd love to hear more.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Does your position come from experience in selling an ebook or other educational product?

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