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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Almost none.
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The guy who made Banished contracted his way through the lengthy (something like 4 years) development. Functionally it cost him a lot of money and effort over time, but he did not need the extra overhead of a publisher (unless you consider
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Oops, haha!
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The point is that the older employees are hazing the new ones to limit entry into the company. Employment within finance is declining sharply. It would not be shocking if it returns to its low level of prestige that it was at before the 198
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Alluding to Alexis de Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America.' Americans have a tendency to discount the notions of expertise and mastery, instead trusting in the 'common person' to make sensible decisions, and for the
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Glad to be of use. It does. I like this book on how to do it: http://www.amazon.com/Crackerjack-Positioning-Marketing-Stra...
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There are a lot of unfortunate laws and cultural practices that make it challenging for American companies that run at scale to surface merit in the hiring process. There are also a lot of cultural factors that go back even to the 18th cent
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Good call.
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1. RSS still exists and is used. It does not drive traffic like the 'social' sites do, however. 2. >There is no way to get backlinks, no way to get ranking, no way to rank without an enormous team of experts guiding your effort
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You could extend them a subscription on credit, just like businesses do before credit/debit transactions settle. Ripple then? Again that rests on adoption for Ripple, which is probably even smaller than a lot of alt coins.
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Isn't this a reason to make it easier for people to use bitcoin to pay subscriptions? Transaction fees and chargebacks make a $0.50/month fee impossible, but using some sort of cryptocurrency, that could be a solid alternative to
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Similarly, it's nothing more than a test campaign's worth of ad groups on Adwords. It'll barely buy an 1/8th page ad on a random day of a local newspaper. $500 also doesn't pay for a professional naming service. Tha
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Syndication is an old term that just means running the same article in multiple outlets. For example, George Will's column is syndicated across a ton of different newspapers. The National Board of Realtors syndicates content through hu
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That's the beauty of manipulating the press. All the evidence is private. Your skepticism is what makes it such an effective method of molding public opinion.
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At the same time that Google is cracking down on a lot of old black hat methods (which is good, because it was unpleasant when they worked), other content discovery methods besides search are popping up. There are now many services that exi
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Cool. I'd like to look into this a little further.
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Here's the way that I've seen great companies do it that works great for SEO but predated search engines: make up your own business term / buzzword. You advertise it through targeted display (cheap if managed well) plus PR. Y
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Couldn't better email clients and e-mail services be made that do? I'm trying to look at this from an idiot's perspective (which may not be all that far from my ordinary perspective, because I don't know a huge amount of
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Not trying to be snarky, but isn't this "email"?
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This is a wonderful article that reflects my experience of around ~5 noncontinuous years of working from home. I'm also finding that it helps to vary what work that you do rather than attempting to crunch out just one kind of work endl
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Move at whatever speed and let it stay broken and confusing.
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You can't DM someone that you don't follow. Twitter already exposes all the text of non-protected accounts to advertisers for their contextual ad products. 'Automated scans for tweets' are what Twitter already sells to a
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Yeah. Especially because Amazon pays to retarget people based on their cart items until they convert. So if you have goods listed on Amazon, this is a way to quickly get people that you interact with on Twitter to sign up to get more pressu
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Hard? Sure. Scale? Not as much as you think. Local newspapers all over the country somehow manage to hit $10 cpm for direct sales. I don't dispute that having a sales team isn't hard or potentially expensive. One of the reason why
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The problem is that it's not in the organizational mindset of agencies that mostly do creative work and expect to be able to hand it over to another company that specializes in buying media space. You can see the ad networks as opportu
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Why is this agency buying through a network instead of doing it themselves? They could just do managed placements rather than just tossing it to a network who does the same thing with less of a direct incentive to serve the client. The netw
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Excellent point.
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The difference being that it's tough to kill people at scale and covertly with a rifle or even poison mail. Exploiting a bug in networked pacemakers could give you the means to kill an entire userbase. For the train comparison, it&#x27
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Look! Design is fantastic. Organizations that take design seriously make products far better than those that don't. We should applaud and defend the companies that take it seriously, because they're all that's left in this co
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Unsubs, open rate, bounces, - yes. I would be more concerned by people who do not bounce, read, sub or press the 'x', lose affinity, return to the site again later, get the popup again, lose affinity even more, and then bounce, ne

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