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by il 16y ago
Shoot me an email, I can probably help push you in the right direction.
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by il 16y ago
Driving traffic is so very different from building software, because you can do everything right, follow all best practices and rules, build an awesome campaign, and still fail because your competitors are doing it 10% better. In some ways,
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by il 16y ago
And there is the distinction. Spending large amounts of their own money to get massive traffic is EXACTLY what good marketers do. They can get the exposure a company like Facebook gives developers. A great marketer can build something in a
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by il 16y ago
Unfortunately, "user acquisition hackers" are basically priceless. That's good to know, and the hundreds of startup people emailing me asking for advice on getting traffic seem to confirm the incredible demand. I'm still wondering why mor
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by il 16y ago
It's called affiliate marketing, and thousands of people do exactly this for a living full time. All of the affiliate marketers who are any good work for themselves driving traffic to others for commission on every lead or sale, or creating
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by il 16y ago
This seems like a good deal and a great startup, but I'm not sure it's in the spirit of past Offer HN posts. Then again, maybe after its birth in hype and exuberance, this is what Offer HN has become.
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by il 16y ago
That's what the flag link is for.
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by il 16y ago
Wait, Google has been passing rank in the referrer? Doesn't this completely kill the business model of SERP monitoring services like GinzaMetrics?
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by il 16y ago
It's all about how good they are at marketing and sales. I can't speak for everyone but LivingSocial is very good at optimizing their landing pages, builds great PPC campaigns and has a very strong affiliate program.
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by il 16y ago
There was a post here a while back by someone who did the same thing with the Stackoverflow data dump. I think he was able to recover about 10% of users' emails from a vastly larger search space. Moral of the story: simply hashing emails is
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by il 16y ago
As I've heard it defined, extroverts gain energy from social interactions, introverts are fatigued by them. If, like me, after a few hours of small talk you feel exhausted and want to sit in front of a screen alone, you're probably an intro
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by il 16y ago
What I learned is that, if you're an educated individual living in a first world country, the consequences of failure are _almost always_ minor. Act accordingly.
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by il 16y ago
If you're trolling this post with spectacularly bad advice about bad advice, well done. If you truly believe that, you have a very cynical worldview. I am quite introverted but whenever I force myself to go to a social event where I don't k
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by il 16y ago
Might be difficult to do business there, if you try to register for a business trip, you get this stern warning: "Articles not allowed in the DPRK: Video-Camera, Plants, animals, drugs, explosives, weapons, any kind of pornography, mass pri
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by il 16y ago
Shift + CMD + /? Three button shortcut for help? What happened to F1 being the universal help key?
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by il 16y ago
Internet Explorer users, I should have made that more clear.
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Marketing For Hackers: Scaling your marketing efforts for massive traffic(insight.io)
31 points by il 16y ago|3 comments
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by il 16y ago
I wonder what could be 7X the size of the Iraq war logs...
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by il 16y ago
I don't mean to be a jerk, and I'm going to be downvoted into oblivion for this, but I don't think Patrick is the brilliant SEO wizard some people on here make him out to be, certainly not anywhere near a Rand Fishkin type level. He's an ex
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by il 16y ago
Two months ago I dropped what I was doing, sold everything I owned, said goodbye to my friends and girlfriend and moved from the Midwest to San Francisco. It was probably the best decision I ever made. Not that I was unhappy before, but it'
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by il 16y ago
The most surprising is that only 50,000 of them converted into email signups.
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by il 16y ago
Unless your startup is targeting teenage girls in third world countries, you shouldn't be trying to simply optimize for low CPC. You need to be thinking about traffic quality and conversions. The beauty of a fluid marketplace like Facebook
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by il 16y ago
Plain text banners can convert incredibly well- just ask anyone who's seen a PlentyofFish banner. There are two main techniques in banner design- clashing or blending with the site you're on. AdSense generally takes the blending approach, b
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by il 16y ago
There's only so much I can cover in one post. All of those are definitely important- I'll get to them in later posts, I just wanted to cover some basic suggestions I found myself giving over and over again.
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by il 16y ago
I'll post some data and case studies soon. But surely Google's acquisition of Doubleclick validates the model somewhat. And if you don't buy that, I have anecdotal evidence: I paid for 4 years of college only through buying banner ads on ta
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Startup Marketing: How To Get Traffic Beyond AdWords(insight.io)
2 points by il 16y ago|0 comments
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by il 16y ago
Not to mention that most modern captchas are being solved by people in third world countries, not bots. Something like ReCaptcha is already for all intents and purposes bot-proof. A text captcha like this looks like a step backward.
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by il 16y ago
I can't wait to see what everyone does with this data, there could be lots of interesting insights gleaned from this. For example, a more comprehensive list of top domains, domains with most upvotes, domains with most unique people submitti
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by il 16y ago
What do you suggest I change? I don't really know CSS.
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by il 16y ago
Really? Reading that, I hear the Pew Pew sound in my head, and it makes the laser seem totally awesome, even if it doesn't actually make that sound.

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