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Estimating Organic Search Opportunity Part 1 of 2(coconutheadphones.com)
1 points by dcaldwell 14y ago|0 comments
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
OP here. I wrote this blog post to help the community - to share what I've learned and have done to get some traffic and have a fairly successful launch of a side project. Most of the discussion on this thread has been around resumes themse
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
Please do.
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
It's not everybody's cup of tea. We understand that and that's fair. We've gotten a lot of positive feedback from both hiring managers and job seekers who actually have responded the opposite of what you're feeling. So, I guess it just depe
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
1) The project wasn't 1 month. This is just what we did in the roughly 1 month since we launched. 2) Yes, if you multiply the over 100 sales by our purchase price, we did over $10,000. 3) We don't convert html to PDF. Customers pick a resum
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
We're working on that. We've just been live for a little over a month and are still doing it as a side project. But, that's something we have planned.
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
We used a local photographer. We provided a lot of direction the entire time but he's also really good.
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
That's correct. Some people think we do the printing but we actually provide the visual design service. We're considering adding a printing service down the road. Even in doing our photo shoots for the site, we learned a lot about what make
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
Haha, my place in Greenville is well under this price and is 1 block off Main St. You should check Greenville out!
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
We actually don't print the resumes. We do the visual design.
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
Another great site to learn about Greenville is: http://lifeingreenville.com/
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
We actually haven't gotten many orders directly from the CSS galleries. While some designers do order our resumes, they aren't our primary target market (many of them will design their own.) From our standpoint, it helps out with getting so
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
Thanks for the advice. - Any suggestions on how to make it intuitive to scroll down? - We've thought about filtering but we've honestly seen no trends in which professions pick which designs - it's been all over the board. - The shopper doe
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
Thanks Michael. I remember that conversation and getting your feedback. Great to hear from you!
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
I read that post on Raganwald's blog the other day. I think there's a difference in having a "professional" resume format in standard Word document black and white and having a resume that's been designed by an artist. My guess is that in t
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
We've been surprised at the variety of professions coming in. There haven't been any real trends yet - we've had everything from CFOs to college students to marketers to folks in the legal field. We originally thought we'd see mostly career
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
We just launched about a month ago and have been doing our best to keep up with orders so haven't had time to do proper surveys. That's certainly something that we want to do in the near future. I think it would really help from a marketing
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
I'm thinking about doing another blog post about this specifically - how I research and contact bloggers.
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
That's certainly been brought up to us before. We've run our resumes through parsing software and they've actually performed well. We don't advertise that because we haven't run every resume through every parser, so we can't say that they p
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
Yes, we actually did better than that. I had tweeted about that so that's where the number came from.
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
Emory, my cofounder, designed the website and a few of the resumes. We contracted with some really talented designers regionally and around the country for the rest of the resumes. We didn't want to have the same look and feel for all of th
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
We have graphic artists that custom typeset the resumes manually. There are 2 revision rounds included in each purchase (additional revisions/edits/versions can be purchased) so there's back and forth with our artists.
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5 Weeks After Launching Loft Resumes: $10K+ in Revenue, 200K in Pageviews(blog.doddcaldwell.com)
4 points by dcaldwell 15y ago|0 comments
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Pathwright: Create, teach, and sell beautiful online courses (pathwright.com)
2 points by dcaldwell 15y ago|1 comments
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How My Side Project Generated Sales and 66,000 Unique Visitors in 1 Month(blog.doddcaldwell.com)
3 points by dcaldwell 15y ago|0 comments
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Terrafugia Transition Flying Car to Be On Hand at New York Auto Show(technabob.com)
1 points by dcaldwell 15y ago|0 comments
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Slate Story Helps David Imus Sell Over 11,000 Maps(registerguard.com)
2 points by dcaldwell 15y ago|0 comments
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New Service Gives Any Job Seeker A Slick, Custom Resume(fastcodesign.com)
7 points by dcaldwell 15y ago|0 comments
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by dcaldwell 15y ago
Thanks for the constructive feedback.You're right, these resumes won't be right for certain industries, for instance banking. We're OK with it not being for everybody as long as we can find a big enough niche. Regarding the pricing, we char
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Why bloggers and press don't matter for user acquisition (2007)(andrewchenblog.com)
1 points by dcaldwell 15y ago|0 comments

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