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by il 16y ago
Thank you for this post..it really is a breath of fresh air after all the buzzword-laden but completely substance-free pitches you tend to hear after spending time in the Bay Area. When startups respond to the question of "How will you make
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by il 16y ago
If you were doing all of that, you probably don't have a failed startup.
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by il 16y ago
Surprisingly, Facebook is kicking Google's ass on this. If you spend a decent amount on Facebook, you will get a rep you can email any time and get back a response from a real human. They can expedite the approval of your ads and will even
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by il 16y ago
Sounds just like reddit ads.
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by il 16y ago
In that case, you might have a bright future in affiliate marketing ahead of you.
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by il 16y ago
If I were you I would strongly reconsider your pricing....you're underpricing by quite a lot. The last place I was in, the company my landlord used for online rent collection charged 1.50 per transaction...to the tenant. That's in addition
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by il 16y ago
As mentioned elsewhere, Amazon is one of the largest email senders in the world. They probably know a thing or two about deliverability.
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by il 16y ago
Go to any mainstream web site frequented by an older, less tech-savvy audience like weather.com. Take a look at the text ads on the right side and the landing pages they link to. There's your crash course in the current state of the affilia
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by il 16y ago
(Un)Fortunately for woot, the professional/slightly greyhat affiliates are not going to bother building campaigns that compete with Amazon and eBay for a piddling percent of sale commission . The only affiliates they(and 99% of the other pr
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by il 16y ago
Actually, most of the top affiliate marketers make money by arbitraging paid or organic traffic. Very few are creating sites that are much more than thin landing pages.
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by il 16y ago
Their users are not their customers, their advertisers are. Considering the low conversion rates of Facebook traffic, that seems just right.
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by il 16y ago
The problem is that by definition, people will not go to Qwiki for long-tail searches (because they won't have good content on them). And long-tail, specific, targeted searches/users is where the money is for sponsored links.
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by il 16y ago
It really seems to me that Qwiki is a solution I'n search of a problem. What problem is it really solving? Could you ever imagine yourself paying for Qwiki?
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by il 16y ago
This interview lacks substance, but you can still learn from it if you read between the lines. A few takeaways: -Google is investing continuously in the display ad marketplace -A sure way to get acquired is to build relationships with busin
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by il 16y ago
Recommended CPC means nothing, ignore it. Start under $1.00, wait until you have established a decent CTR and then start lowering your bids until you stop getting impressions.
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by il 16y ago
Different industries have different rules I suppose. Allright, I've enabled fulltext feeds for the time being, we'll see how it goes. Spam considerations aside, it's a tradeoff between subscriber counts and pageviews. I'm not entirely clear
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by il 16y ago
They're using thousands of disposable email adresses that they will never check again, it won't make a difference.
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by il 16y ago
Unfortunately, fulltext RSS feeds are easy prey for scraper/spam sites, which is why most blogs don't use them. Nowadays, it looks like most people use RSS as more of a notification when new content is posted.
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by il 16y ago
According to our data they're in the top 10 largest AdWords advertisers, at least by reach.
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by il 16y ago
You're probably not the only one. Shoot me an email- I have some data for your space that might be tremendously useful.
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by il 16y ago
This create a really interesting dilemma for Google. A significant portion of Groupon's subscriber base comes from the Google Ads they are running. Now Google can either: 1. Ban Groupon from advertising on AdWords 2. Use the CTR and convers
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by il 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'm on Chrome 9 beta and it looks fine for me, it's probably an extension. Try incognito mode. Edit: Now I'm wondering why this extension perceives my entire blog as one giant ad :) Good point about the menu overlap
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by il 16y ago
I only use Chrome, works fine for me. Also, according to my analytics, 40% of my readers use Chrome, so unless they're all just constantly refreshing my blog like mindless zombies without seeing anything, the issue is probably on your end.
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How to Outmarket and Dominate Your Better Funded Competitors(insight.io)
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by il 16y ago
It's very hard to get a loan to start a business nowadays. Banks like to give loans to businesses with an established business model investing in growth. If you really believe in your idea, why not finance it with credit cards?
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by il 16y ago
Actually, for some industries, Google traffic converts much better than Bing/Yahoo traffic. No 2 traffic sources are exactly alike.
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by il 16y ago
What makes you think the idea is world changing and that you can execute on it well enough to change the world? If it's not going to make you rich, you might as well post it here and see if anyone else has an idea for monetizing or scaling.
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by il 16y ago
That speaks more to the quality of your Facebook campaigns than Facebook's profitability. The guys actually spending significant money on Facebook are not paying more than 30-40 cents CPC.
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by il 16y ago
Unfortunately, vendors and employees don't yet accept payment in feedback.
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by il 16y ago
If you have a proven conversion funnel and high retention, you should be able to absolutely blow this thing up via Facebook Ads. AdWords is hardly the ideal channel to drive significant game traffic(unless you're awesome at Content Network)

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