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by j-c-hewitt 9y ago
Maybe non-subscribers should get a lite reader's digest type abstract of the article instead of the truncated/cloaked stuff that currently gets served on sites like WSJ. Most articles can probably be described in 50-100 words or l
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It already costs nearly that at some 'elite' universities. And it's not worth the money if you purely consider it as a financial investment in most cases.
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I despise this software, but I think that it's intended for ESL users.
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It's not clear from the article whether this was a counterfeit issue or if the issue is that the glasses (allegedly) don't work and can cause people to damage their eyes. There's nothing in the article about co-mingled invent
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Yeah Amazon doesn't review any stuff like that. They may respond to reports after the fact and have a pretty low threshold for suspending a product, but they aren't going to inspect it or test it.
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I work with Amazon sellers (including on getting suspended sellers reinstated). I am not sure that his story is the actual story. If the glasses were counterfeit, obviously his suspension was justified and he might have committed a felony.
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Almost every major department store and big box retailer has their own white label brands. Amazon is not unique in doing this nor in making it slightly obscure. You can usually figure out which ones are which.
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For people who rely on cold outreach, you'd expect something like maybe a 1% response rate, and only a portion of those would close. So if you want to stick with cold outreach, you should be contacting lists of 1,000 or more people. If
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by j-c-hewitt 9y ago
There are a good number of specialized SEO and marketing firms that just focus on vets, dentists, or other broad medical specialties like dermatologists. One thing you may not realize is that many small businesses -- vets included -- get sp
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One major issue is that their ad unit is "Google/Bing shopping ads, but lower quality and at a comparable price."
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In the rural area that I live in, the local/regional companies provide awful service at an average price. The national company I subscribe to offers excellent internet / good cable / great, friendly, & knowledgeable techn
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I really strongly disagree. In our household we get a big cable TV package because we couldn't opt out of it to get the highest tier internet service. The only networks we watch are rural cop shows and Food TV with some rare cable TV n
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by j-c-hewitt 9y ago
False. When most people talk about dynamic pricing or repricing, it's about competing with other sellers or other retailers. Retailer A may reprice according to what the going price is at Retailer B to try to avoid losing the business.
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It's not really an emergent property but anything driven by selling attention has been engineered and tested to draw attention reliably. From print media to radio and TV the formats are chosen in a way that boosts engagement. From publ
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by j-c-hewitt 9y ago
Absolutely, there are exceptions. I used to live in northeastern non-rural Kansas and local stores were generally cheaper. In high cost of living areas also prices may be cheaper on Amazon.
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by j-c-hewitt 9y ago
I have worked on a lot of Amazon accounts and I even do a fair amount of retail arbitrage from TJ Maxx / JC Penney -> Amazon both online and in-store. Given that the bulk of my income either comes directly from Amazon sales or indir
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I have written thousands of product and service descriptions for everything ranging from products that sell relatively poorly to best-sellers in their category. "Sell the benefits and not the features" is page one/paragraph o
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Well, the gist of articles like this is that indoor rack farming could replace traditional dirt-and-soil farming. This is commentary on an article and not some separate argument about whether or not hydroponics are good or not for certain c
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by j-c-hewitt 9y ago
I said 'full sized plants' because hydroponics can only be used for some kinds of plants. For other things you need soil. Hydroponics are also much finickier and require more labor and energy -- not to mention climate control, dra
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by j-c-hewitt 9y ago
I dunno, I grew up shopping at Key Food in Brooklyn. Key Food sucks. Gristedes is indeed worse. Even the revamped Key Food sucks. It's way more expensive than grocery stores in other lower cost of living states that I have lived in sin
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by j-c-hewitt 9y ago
Farm-to-table is a mark of quality for gourmets because the food tastes better and has more nutrition when it has more expensive inputs. Feed a pig nothing but acorns and he's gonna taste great, but he's gonna be really expensive.
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I think these kinds of stories play well to governments, the press, and some groups of people as ideas or as cool photo opportunities, but they don't translate into meaningful agricultural production. I encourage people to scroll aro
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It's quite new. It does show up for some product searches but to really surface it you have to know it exists. Same thing with Custom.
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They could have used Amazon Custom (which is a new service that's mostly focused on apparel, but still) or Amazon Handmade (Amazon's Etsy clone) instead of using the typical system for selling manufactured products. They were sett
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by j-c-hewitt 10y ago
Not all monsters in EQ fled - undead, for example, fought to the death. In EQ 'train' behavior was common when a fleeing monster or a pathing bug caused everything in the dungeon to chase after a player. That player would then run
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by j-c-hewitt 10y ago
They do remarket to people automatically if many people have purchased both product_x and product_y. If you sell stuff to people on Amazon, you could also manually set up a Facebook, Google, etc. remarketing campaign to do just that using y