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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
>We don't use accounting (fares) to plan local public transport, at least not exclusively as it's not at all a reliable, what with its inability to track routes, lots of unregistered riders with monthly tickets, etc. etc. To ge
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Because we use accounting to measure how equipment is used and decide how to allocate resources efficiently. Without accounting, we can't tell where to divert resources to maintain or improve the equipment. It's also not possible
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
So take it into account in your evaluation of the product. Every magazine reviewer on the planet gets 'free' items to review.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Remember "I'm a Mac / I'm a PC?" The loyalty that Apple built up among creative professionals has under-girded their entire brand. If you were Microsoft, and you saw a chance to knock some of those people loose, wou
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Note that many of the successes were not venture funded. The extreme margins are just not there for these kinds of businesses to generate the returns needed for investors. The only hope is selling into a frothy market which is willing to ig
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
E-commerce is the catalog business. It is confusing to call it 'e-commerce' because you will conceptually lose the smooth progression from the printed catalogs to the web. The Sears stores were, in fact, add-ons that appeared af
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
They're using dynamic keywords in the worst possible way. Often times the landing pages will be empty, junk, or misleading. What that means is that they will form an ad around your query targeted to a particular page on eBay, often tim
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
For a dollar, you can get a ton of chaff social shares. All of these systems are thoroughly pwned.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
This is why it happened. Mystery over. 99% of the time, "we didn't do nuffin" means that the site's moderation was not as tight as once thought. Ignorance isn't really an excuse on this, because it takes five minute
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
What it's resulting in is a 'news-stand' effect in which articles from the mainstream press will rank higher than anyone else on a given query if the match is close enough. Although I'm not a huge fan of the press as it
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
This reflects what I have read elsewhere. What they would do is bid wastefully using weak creative and little targeting as if they were actively trying to waste as much money as possible (which may have been what they were doing).
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Yeah, I know, I made a little money off of it several years ago. These guys take advantage of people who don't know any better by dangling the possibility of petty cash at them and then (for the most part) paying out nothing. That guy
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Good, because Helium was a terrible parasite.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
How exactly would I pitch this to a client? Would they be text? If they're text, how would they click through? Text ads have negligible impact on recall without some sort of image. Whatever happened to context sensitivity?
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
It also helps to think about it in terms of the old print formats. Only blogging is like handing someone a stack of leaflets with some semi-descriptive tags on the side to help you navigate through them. A good test is to ask yourself if th
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Yup. Lush is an amazing shop. I know lots of women who buy soaps and such almost exclusively from there.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Dumb question: what's the matter with the home makeup brewing methods that have been used for centuries now? If you know women in the home-brew makeup/perfume/beauty community, it seems like they're already well served w
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
>I do wonder what people will use as anchor institutions now that church going has declined - not everyone can do the corporate only thing Entertainment. Religious behavior is so ingrained and universal that, when people lose it, they im
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
You could say that the modern fashion-forward corporate culture is just the German-Protestant ethic with the family shaved off and some hedonism stapled on to replace it. Instead of the gospel, people read HBR or HBR-aping tech publications
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
In print, the production is handled by people considered to be proletarian subhumans who are paid almost nothing and disposed of at a whim. This was not always so: when printing was closer to high tech, it was also higher prestige. Manufact
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Yup. The right thing for him to do would be to write a technical book and sell it. He has his emacs tutorial, but his website already has a bunch of poorly placed ad units on it. He's literally competing with his own tutorial by sellin
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
$360/mo, maybe more, with adsense, potentially much more if people clicked on the ads and the ads were high value. Also possibly a lot more if he sold display ads directly or ran a good affiliate program for technical books and other p
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
There's nothing wrong with writing down the fixed costs (which will often be estimable) and getting close on the variable costs. Revenue projections in a new company will be made-up usually, but you're correct to point that out.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Meh. A lot of the problem with modern search is just that a lot of topics just don't have that many people who are both web-savvy and topic-savvy. Content farmers can be slain in the rankings easily by a superior resource, but that res
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
The internet is similar to mail order but faster with a lot of tricky details (in the same way that mail and print have tons of tricky details). People don't change all that much. 'Free' gets you a lot of tire-kickers automat
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
This is a good compromise -- certainly better than the take-your-credit-card free trial that surprises you with a charge. 'Money back guarantee' has worked for a long time, particularly in pre-internet days.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
They're going to, because as you suggest, the situation is fragile. It's only possible to garner enthusiastic compliance when the scheme is not properly understood. Now that it is understood, enthusiastic compliance is no longer
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
I'll be disappointed in the NSA if they're not selling their access to hedge funds and other major corporations. This'd be great to front run mergers and other similar events. C'mon, guys -- let's not be small time
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Of course. >Is there a reason for this? People read left to right. You want to lay out the text in a way that is comfortable for the human eye. Center alignment is great when you have short messages that can be read without shifting focu
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
* Text should not be centered. * The Unique Selling Proposition (USP) needs to be more prominent. The quote box draws in the eye. There are no faces or other images to attract the eye to where you want it to be. * The About/Goodwill&#x

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