hippo33

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Should I run ads for my startup? (pre product/market fit)(launchbit.com)
4 points by hippo33 14y ago|0 comments
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What are good subscribe rates for email newsletters?(launchbit.com)
14 points by hippo33 14y ago|3 comments
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by hippo33 14y ago
I'm in the same boat. I've tried using Dragon, because talking is easier than writing for me. But then, I end up with a lot of umms and uhs and unstructured posts. Copywriting is super important, very difficult for non-writers, and time
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by hippo33 14y ago
Actually, those are correct. "a couple writers" and "a couple of writers" are both grammatically correct. "its completion" -> "it's completion" is just wrong. "It is completion" is not the intent of the sentence.
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by hippo33 14y ago
Oh, I didn't think it was obvious at all... Like in my example, say List A has 1000 people and a 50% open. List B has 2000 ppl and a 25% open rate. In both cases, the same number of absolute ppl are opening the email. Why should List A
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by hippo33 14y ago
This is a follow up post to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4734797
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How to improve the click-through rate in your email newsletter(launchbit.com)
15 points by hippo33 14y ago|4 comments
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by hippo33 14y ago
This is another property owned by LaunchBit, but perhaps this is what you're looking for: http://www.newsletterdirectory.co/directory/ It can help you find lists to get in touch with.
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by hippo33 14y ago
Great comment, Samuel_Michon. One thing that is interesting to me is that your newsletter requires ppl to click through to read the entire article (as does Peter's newsletters). This probably also helps with the accuracy of open rates. E
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by hippo33 14y ago
I can also vouch for that for Peter's list and all the other lists that are over the 50% mark in the graph on my blog post. Quite frankly, it IS HARD to get this high of an open rate. Peter and all the other publishers who are able to do
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by hippo33 14y ago
agreed. but, unfortunately, ppl always ask questions like this, and saying "it depends" isn't particularly satisfying. :( so, i thought i would put a stake in this conversation by offering our data.
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What is a good open rate for your email newsletter?(launchbit.com)
41 points by hippo33 14y ago|38 comments
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by hippo33 14y ago
Not sure what you mean...the first paragraph reads "Lots of marketers combat this by creating banners that stand out in a “spammy-esque” way to achieve a high click-through-rate, but how do you do this without being spammy?" With this sent
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by hippo33 14y ago
Definitely counter-intuitive. And again, it may just be in our network -- who knows? What do you mean by the latter question?
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Ways to Improve Click-Through-Rate On Your Banner Ads Without Being Spammy(launchbit.com)
30 points by hippo33 14y ago|10 comments
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by hippo33 14y ago
The grammatical error is not the contraction. "You're thinking about work-life balance all wrong" can be extended to "You are thinking about work-life balance all wrong" The incorrect part is the "all wrong." It should be "You're thinkin
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by hippo33 14y ago
You're right -- we don't know. My interpretation of the article was that the AUTHOR seemed to imply that that was unbalanced, and my point in bringing it up was that it didn't seem right for the author to critique what is a balanced/not-ba
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by hippo33 14y ago
In the same way you take Apple seriously for using the slogan "Think different." :)
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by hippo33 14y ago
He was referenced, because of another article (see link in my post) on work-life balance.
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by hippo33 14y ago
What you need to make your life feel balanced is different from your peers. If you need to take more time off, then do it. But if you only need 1 week of vacation like Elon Musk, then that's his balance. That's the point -- let's not cre
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by hippo33 14y ago
That is a very fair point. Still learning how to write better. (since I didn't spend a lot of time writing in HS :P) I think that it's important to set expectations with your team: co-founders, investors, etc. If everyone on the team nee
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by hippo33 14y ago
This may be true of YOUR startup. There are plenty of startups out there who have different thoughts about speed. And, so long as expectations are properly set with everyone on the team: co-founders, investors, et al, then whatever you ne
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by hippo33 14y ago
Balance is what YOU as an individual need to be balanced. You are projecting your opinion on everyone else that you need to do other things to be happier. That is what makes YOU happy. So go do it! But, it doesn't mean that everyone wil
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by hippo33 14y ago
Haha -- my point exactly. That's why I said that most people think that my life sounded horrible. But you are projecting your own definitions on other people -- precisely the point of this post...
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by hippo33 14y ago
I think that's fair. I think what we need to stay "balanced" changes over time. Just because you don't want to program all the time now doesn't mean that you didn't enjoy your time in high school.
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by hippo33 14y ago
Good point. Working on becoming a better blogger... My situation these days is that I have a spouse, no kids. I didn't realize it at the time, but choosing a spouse to share a lot of the work-life with you is really important. We probabl
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Startup work-life balance(hippoland.tumblr.com)
154 points by hippo33 14y ago|106 comments
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by hippo33 14y ago
So, I run a startup where we've previously faced a similar problem w/ workflow management. To combat this, we use Google Docs and collaborate on a Goals Doc. It allows us to write notes next to various tasks. And, we'll also write the re
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Productivity tips for internet startups(launchbit.com)
11 points by hippo33 14y ago|2 comments
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by hippo33 14y ago
FeedBurner does a number of different things from feed analytics to email subscriptions. We decided just to tackle each piece at a time rather than trying to do everything all at once.

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