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by il 16y ago
If you're a startup with lots of possible advertising topics, and monetizing with advertising, you're probably a UGC/social media site. Advertisers will see you as not much more than a glorified general discussion forum, and pay accordingly
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by il 16y ago
The quickest way, without hammering anyone's server is to download the Verisign zone file daily and just search it. They frown on using it for domain lookups, but you might be able to get access anyway.
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by il 16y ago
Great article, I'm happy to see that I have experience succeeding at many of these attributes, and am studying many others. I'm eagerly looking forward to the second half. Aside from these, I can't emphasize enough how important it is for t
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by il 16y ago
I started my business to pay for beer and food during college. Fortunately, it grew rapidly, and I was able to pay off all my loans(about 25k in debt) before I graduated. Of course, living like a frugal college student with low expenses hel
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by il 16y ago
That's why a business guy and a hacker is the best team. I love creating new marketing strategies, building campaigns, writing sales copy and doing customer development. But writing code bores me...I hate slogging through coding and debuggi
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by il 16y ago
Theere's obviously a lot of parasitic business "idea guys" who don't know about technology this article is talking about. At the same time, there's a lot of business guys who can bring real, tangible value in terms of strategy, customer acq
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by il 16y ago
Very true. My thought process for this has been "trust, but verify". Trust your gut, give it a try, and then see if the data confirms your gut reaction. I specialize in marketing, and frequently I have to commit large sums of money to media
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by il 16y ago
This is called cookie stuffing and it's not only against TOS but also fraudulent and very illegal. You're stealing money from Amazon. The owners of Digitalpoint just got charged with wire fraud for this practice. If ethics don't concern you
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by il 16y ago
Consulting takes time and saps your focus, but it also feels incredible to work for 1 day and make enough to pay rent for a month. When you're not stressing about whether you'll be able to make rent this month, you may find your productivit
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by il 16y ago
If you know Adwords/SEM at all it should be pretty easy to find a consulting gig for local small businesses. Charge a percent of spend or $100-150 hourly for your time. This is what I did when I invested lots of money into my business and n
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by il 16y ago
I think I've read every single thread on the subject, but they either don't apply to me or have conflicting/vague information. Here's a few for reference for anyone else researching a move: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1510553 htt
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by il 16y ago
I do marketing for a living but I'm also pretty technical, so tech/startup events are definitely something I'm interested in. Something like Hackers and Founders would be exactly what I'm looking for.
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by il 16y ago
I don't plan to have a car... definitely looking for somewhere near BART.
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Ask HN:I'm selling all my stuff and moving to SF to work on my startup. Advice?
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by il 16y ago
Ask is owned by IAC, which has many more incredibly profitable properties like Match.com, Zwinky, etc.
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by il 16y ago
I haven't done this at a large scale(most of my bigger Flippa sales have been web services I built myself) but I routinely see sites on Flippa with decent traffic and authority that are very poorly monetized. If you can optimize the adverti
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by il 16y ago
An easy way to do it: Buy undervalued and poorly monetized but well-established sites on flippa, optimize advertising and grow traffic, resell on Flippa in a few months. If you've got $XXXXX to play with you can pick up some incredible barg
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by il 16y ago
I would try your service in a heartbeat, but the pricing seems quite high. There's a big disconnect between charging $49 per user and paying them $5- couldn't you significantly lower pricing and still be profitable?
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by il 16y ago
http://channel101.com/ has been doing this for years, resulting in some incredibly creative, if short lived, shows.
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by il 16y ago
Great post, I've just found my new favorite blog :) I've seen similar results in my own tests, with the right mix of trust logos adding 5-10% to conversion rate. It's amazing how much the little trust boosting tidbits can improve conversion
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by il 16y ago
That's generally true, but in some cases, particularly in certain niches, that argument breaks down. In the past several years I've staked significant money(6 figures) on my ability to predict traffic quality(how well a traffic source conve
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by il 16y ago
"I am sure that 1999 is inspired by your site."- I'm not sure what you're talking about there. I think I'm confused about what your service does, it looks like the service levels are delimited by number of affiliates and payout amount(to ea
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by il 16y ago
Zferral looks great, but the reason companies pay thousands for networks like CJ or tracking like DirectTrack or Linktrust is because these companies invest heavily in infrastructure, stability, and fraud protection to ensure that every val
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by il 16y ago
I've had similar results with my projects. PPC was the main driver of sales, and press releases proved worthless. The only successful PR I've done is reaching out to bloggers in the space with a personalized email.
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by il 16y ago
I agree, with the exception that you should never view organic traffic as free. Even if you didn't spend any money on SEO directly(e.g. buying links) SEO can be very time consuming, and you should always consider the opportunity cost of tim
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by il 16y ago
Great post, but I wish startups,as well as this article, devoted more attention to SEO and paid advertising like PPC/Social. In many industries, paid traffic will be the primary driver of signups and sales, and it's a mistake to think you c
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by il 16y ago
I'm going to be in the minority here and as a marketer I am probably biased, but I think you should have a marketer or a business guy as soon as possible, when you are designing your product, writing sales copy, setting pricing ,deciding th
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by il 16y ago
Can you share what company you're working for or any more details about the business? The reason I'm asking is that I am the single founder(and sole employee) of an affiliate marketing/internet marketing business that's somewhat successful(
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by il 16y ago
This would be absolutely huge if you integrated with other affiliate networks(especially Linktrust and DirectTrack API). I know a lot of affiliates who would pay good money to have all of their stats in one place. Your major competitor woul
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by il 16y ago
There's been some discussion about using subthreshold doses of LSD to improve cognition, maybe the same theory can hold for a small dose of 2C(under 5mg).

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