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17y ago
>Just wondering, why is it important to have a viable competitor to Google? From an economic standpoint, it's probably most important to search engine advertisers.
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17y ago
>Neckties have always struck me as anachronistic, even sexist. What item of women's clothing has been around for 100 years and is still regularly worn without modification? Especially one that serves no functional purpose? High heels st
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18y ago
We ran some Facebook ads and had decent success with them. It ended up costing us about $22 per $150 avg sale, which is at the high end of acceptability (but not terribly different from google). We found that: * Ads with pictures of people
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18y ago
The bribe in this case is free consumer to consumer transfers (and I don't think this bribe should be underestimated), but you're right, savvy consumers will still just use their rewards cards and continue to be subsidized by those who don'
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18y ago
Actually, just being able to keep more of the transaction should be incentive enough for merchants. All that's really needed is a high enough consumer buy-in to make it worthwhile to deploy. Credit card processing fees are ridiculously high
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18y ago
A google search reveals digistamp.com. I also recall looking into this 6 or 7 years ago and finding a similar service back then.
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18y ago
I couldn't find one when I implemented drop downs a few months ago, but the hover intent plugin was very useful for rolling my own.
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18y ago
I think the point he's making isn't about the correct way to choose a shade of blue, it's that real design work encompasses far more than picking colors.