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by justinbaker84 3y ago
I agree that this is the best possible solution in the american healthcare system for any chronic issues. For accute issues like getting in a car accident going through the established system is still the best option.
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by justinbaker84 3y ago
They also hate talking to people who manage $200K per month advertising budgets. Even at that level advertisers just get very low wage support staff in India who can't do much.
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by justinbaker84 3y ago
A lot of clinics are administering the generic form and it is still very expensive.
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by justinbaker84 3y ago
I took it and started out with a small dose. The impact of that dose wore off eventually and the plan at my clinic was to raise it over time. I am concerned that maybe there isn't a dose where you can stop taking more and keep the res
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by justinbaker84 3y ago
That is not what happened to me. I took it for 2 months and then I wanted to get off. I did not go back to normal. Mentally I felt like I needed more food and more junk food than I ever did before using the drug. My hypothesis is that it
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by justinbaker84 3y ago
This is exactly what happened to me. The clinic I went to recommended starting out with 1/10 the normal dose for the first month to make sure I would tolerate it. Then we would move up each month. It worked so well I didn't want
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
I've been a freelance marketer (I do google ads) for 8 years now. The thing that made all the difference for me was building a good website for myself and then buying google ads on keywords that indicate people are looking for somebod
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
1 click from a search ad on the first page of google is worth more to an advertiser than all the impressions derived from the all the lame sites you trudge through. Source: I've run a digital ad agency for 8 years.
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
You figured correctly. I understand there is some exaggeration here, but this take is far more accurate than the parent comment.
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
Yes but if you look at the balance sheet they have about 6 billion in net assets (assets minus liabilities) so the value of the company itself is really more like 5.6 billion. This is a little tricky because company valuation in many cases
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
This is a very well articulated comment. Thank you for laying this out so clearly. I don't know any hedge fund types so it is helpful to hear from somebody who does.
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
You are absolutely right. I worked at a big agency where I managed a team that ran the search ads for a fortune 500 tech company. That was usually how it worked. I tried to communicate up the chain that the dinners and outings on Google&
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
Because any challenge will lose. It is in their terms of service that what they are doing is legal. But nobody is going to read 70+ of legalese just to set up a campaign. The issue is that they have not been good faith actors for many yea
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
These are excellent tips. I have been managing Google Ads full time for about 12 years and I run a small agency. I can confirm he is right about all of this. The challenging thing about this advice is that for most people it feels unnatur
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
Cool, enjoy getting almost no new business creation in the world. I'm sure you will love living in a world where incumbents pretty much have total control over everything.
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
They are just screwed. I once worked with a company that was willing to do pretty much anything and spend pretty much anything to get back on Google and nothing worked. You can create a new account but Google has a million ways to understan
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
Choosing another agency only works if you have them create the account. That is not a good option because then they own it and they pretty much always abuse that ownership by telling the client the account spent more than it did. For examp
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
I understand where you are coming from, but good luck running a business without advertising. Especially if you want to create a new business. The main problem is that most advertising is annoying or irrelevant to the user. Google search
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
Government scale funds are about 1,000x this amount. For example the US "defense" spending for 2022 is 778 Billion - billion with a B. And defense spending is less than 10% of overall government spending in the US when you includ
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
I think you are correct when thinking about the long term future of the ecosystem, but if your business gets crushed because you can't advertise on Google then it doesn't feel so good. Engineers on Hacker News don't understan
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
The problem is they have a near monopoly on search, a duopoly on video, a near monopoly on display etc. It is very difficult to advertise without them. Engineers have a lot of options when building. Any company that wants do advertise doe
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
I manage about $210K a month in ad spend and the support I get is terrible. I would gladly pay a fee to get good support.
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
It is great that engineers can choose between multiple services, but advertisers have far fewer options. Getting banned from Google means you lose Google search, Youtube, almost all of the display ads on the open web and most of the ad slo
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
I have been managing google ads for 12 years and I have never seen a suspended account win an appeal.
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
I think a more relevant take is "how are they going to accomplish this with only $50 million? California can't even build high speed rail with a budget in 10s of billions of dollars and more than a decade of time.
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
100% Agree.
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
I hire UI/UX professionals on UpWork. That is the best solution I have come up with. It is totally worth it to pay somebody $70-$100 to review your site or app for an hour and give you actionable advice.
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by justinbaker84 4y ago
Yes everybody goes through something like a broker. I run a small agency that manages google ads for small to medium businesses and I frequently get contacted by people who tried to do it themselves and got terrible results.
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by justinbaker84 5y ago
Great job! Your site did a fantastic job of putting this into context for me.
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by justinbaker84 5y ago
Yeah those are all sales reps that just want to get you to waste your money on junk. When you actually have a problem and you need real customer support you get routed to India so you can listen to a low wage employee ignore the substance

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