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Lessons learned from helping over 150 startups with marketing (from my Offer HN)(insight.io)
159 points by il 16y ago|28 comments
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by il 16y ago
Really? Your response is "everything is bullshit"? What if chasing success makes me happy? I'm not sure who this advice is targeted at. It's certainly not for ambitious people who want to build things people use. "Do not market" and "do not
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by il 16y ago
You're absolutely right, I hadn't considered analytics as an example. Some data startups I've seen as well as my own project take in existing data sets and simply generate reports from it for customers. Makes it a lot easier to scale.
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by il 16y ago
I'm going to get flamed for this, but I think, even for a data startup, worrying about scaling before you have users or traction is premature, especially with how cheap hardware is becoming. Case in point: I'm currently hacking together an
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by il 16y ago
I'm wondering how they determined that a data startup needs exactly those three founders. I think a data startup needs two founders- a hacker to collect and analyze the data and a business guy to provide actionable recommendations and sell
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Ask HN: Is Offer HN Dead?
5 points by il 16y ago|2 comments
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by il 16y ago
They're just going to refuse to let you get on the plane. There's no right to fly in the constitution.
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by il 16y ago
I didn't make the group, I just saw it in the previous thread and noticed that it already had traction and quite a few members, I think it's better to discuss in one central place rather than fragmenting into a bunch of separate lists. If y
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by il 16y ago
Clickable Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_141079939271952
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Remind HN: November is Launch an App Month
78 points by il 16y ago|73 comments
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by il 16y ago
If you're a startup, don't use an agency. Trust me. Hire someone internally to manage your PPC campaigns, it will be cheaper and they will do a better job. You know your customers better than anyone. You know what their interests and demog
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by il 16y ago
Thanks everyone for your emails, I've gotten 150+ people emailing me so far. I'm trying to work my way through them as fast as I can, but it may be a day or two before I respond to you. I'm seeing some interesting patterns emerge, I'll post
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by il 16y ago
Yes, absolutely! The beauty of targeted performance marketing is that you can know very quickly whether something is working or not without spending lots of money testing.
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by il 16y ago
I want to add that I specialize in leveraging ad spend, spending money to make lots more money.I probably won't help you get more Twitter followers, but I will help you get more customers.
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Offer HN: I will build you a marketing campaign to get more traffic
88 points by il 16y ago|29 comments
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by il 16y ago
Everything I've seen on HN leads me to believe YC would rather invest in a Woz than a Jobs.
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by il 16y ago
All it takes is for one attack to succeed for people to be very, very afraid again. People weren't afraid before 9/11 either.
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New Macbook Air with SSD Available Now (engadget.com)
2 points by il 16y ago|1 comments
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by il 16y ago
You're either vastly undervaluing your service or you don't work in direct response :) Good copy takes weeks if not months to write and refine- you should adjust your prices to reflect this.
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by il 16y ago
Yeah! Please email me, email in my profile.
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by il 16y ago
Being in the red-hot daily deal space probably helped with raising a big round too. It seems that the key step, other than getting traction is "build relationships with potential investors". Can you elaborate how you did this? Cold calling/
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by il 16y ago
Nope. I'm not a visionary entrepreneur at all. I don't want to change the world. While I want lots of growth, I try to minimize risk whenever possible. All I want to do is create enough value for a certain group of people in my target marke
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by il 16y ago
Toolbar PR!=Actual PR. Toolbar PR updates are done on a rolling basis, so you never know when it will update. Don't worry about it, the number means nothing.
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by il 16y ago
It's a simple sale, no rebill or free trial just one charge of the purchase price. I use that landing page style because it converts better than anything else I have tested :)
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by il 16y ago
I feel that unless you snag a .com that's your exact name, you're screwed either way. I ended up with [word].io, but I was deciding between that and [word][obscure animal].com . I think I made the right choice. Fortunately, most of the traf
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by il 16y ago
Do you think a .com domain is absolutely necessary? I spent hours yesterday trying every possible combination of words to find an available .com with no luck. Finally I said screw it and registered a one word .io domain that describes my pr
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by il 16y ago
I created a nutritional supplement to help me code longer and be more productive: http://www.getinstantfocus.com It's been an incredible learning experience in terms of building an ecommerce business from the ground up and putting all of
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by il 16y ago
FYI taking the sum is also incorrect, you want the exact match number of searches
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by il 16y ago
If good copy can result in even a 10% increase in sales for a mass market product, that could be worth millions of dollars, much more than $15K. This isn't for a blurb, it's for several thousand words of copy(think something like a 10 page
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by il 16y ago
Read Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins, the granddaddy of all copywriting books. Do it now. It's very short, it's available online for free, and it has no fluff and all useful information. It was written a few years ago, so it doesn

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