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by jwesley 17y ago
I think it's that his "lightweight business-IT theories" aren't recognized as such.
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by jwesley 17y ago
This article (currently at number 30 on HN) fits the template remarkably well: http://www.newcommbiz.com/on-being-an-influencer-and-marketi...
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by jwesley 17y ago
Not all the benefits of advertising can be directly tracked from click to sale. If you buy a banner on TechCrunch and don't make your money back on direct sales but everyone interested in startups has heard of your product, that is not nece
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by jwesley 17y ago
Maybe your visitors just aren't interested in any of those offers. Or maybe you don't know how to convert your visitors into buyers. There are many people making a killing with CPA offers who know that statement is flat out wrong.
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by jwesley 17y ago
You are missing the point. CPM != Brand Awareness. The author's main point is that paying for impressions leads publishers to drum up loads of garbage impressions. If there was a better way to measure and pay for brand engagement, then publ
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by jwesley 17y ago
According their findings having an unavailable website is seriously damaging their credibility.
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by jwesley 17y ago
Another factor to consider would be the domain name of the site. Would you want to build your company on top of the domain name? Is it suitable for the broader niche that you want to apply it to. If the site is a good fit, buying an establi
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by jwesley 17y ago
The value isn't in the listening, it's in the broadcasting.
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by jwesley 17y ago
"37signals' Fried, by the way, is a rare case in the Internet industry, in that 37signals has never had to raise a significant amount of venture capital." That statement really shows how ignorant the business press is of the reality of busi
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by jwesley 17y ago
Ringtones are also notoriously the subject of rebilling scams. Download ringtones for $.99! Get charged $20 per month automatically for the rest of you life or until you notice and cancel.
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by jwesley 17y ago
That's a pretty ignorant statement. Domain names can go a long way towards achieving great search rankings, which is why the better .net and .org domains sell for 10's of thousands of dollars. Though, I would agree that for those types of m
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by jwesley 17y ago
Sad to see a site like Business Insider using those super spammy contextual Kontera ads.
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by jwesley 17y ago
Anyone else tired of these business-advice-self-help blog posts? It's all this feel good generalized advice that just seems to reiterate the same points over and over again. Anything with concrete examples (data is even better) is so much m
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by jwesley 17y ago
I can imagine the campaign stats: O impressions O clicks 0 cost. Unless you are going to tell people to search for that and click on the ads you don't any coupon to run that one.
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by jwesley 17y ago
Well, now that FriendFeed is a lame duck he has to have something to rave about. This is textbook Scoble. How he ever became "a thought leader" is beyond me.
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by jwesley 17y ago
The advantage the web gives to writers is that it drastically the reduces the barriers to becoming a publisher and reaching a massive audience. The writers who take advantage of this are the ones who benefit from the web, while those who do
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by jwesley 17y ago
To add to this, this statistic is also misleading because it doesn't mention HOW LONG viewers watch for. My guess is the average Hulu visitor watches 1/10-1/50 (or less) the amount of programming that a Time Warner subscriber does. Think ab
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by jwesley 17y ago
Good novels don't have to be hard to read, but they can be, and some of them should be. This either/or argument is pointless. Of course extremely difficult (and rewarding) novels like Infinite Jest and Ulysses will not be for everyone. But
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by jwesley 17y ago
Those 5 sites are a plague on the internet. They toss poor workers pennies to churn out reams of forgettable content which clogs up the search results because of the huge authority of those sites. Most of the writers simply research the con
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by jwesley 17y ago
You could substitute basically any group for "highly creative people" and the article would still be the same. Like if you substituted "power twitter users" this would be ready for Mashable. You could also write an equally namedrop-filled a
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by jwesley 17y ago
I knows it's fun and all to hate on managers, but they do perform a valuable function within an organization. If you're successful enough as an entrepreneur, it's almost guaranteed that you'll end up as one. Just because most people here id
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by jwesley 17y ago
Not to say that the ad campaign is a winner, but this conclusion is dubious logic at best. A bad ad campaign is responsible for the revenue drop you say? Nothing to do the with the deep global recession and plummeting consumer spending? Thi
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by jwesley 17y ago
The facts clearly cannot be copyrighted. What can be copyrighted (or at least leveraged for monetization) is editorial voice, brand recognition, and timeliness. TMZ broke the Michael Jackson story, and their reward for being first was huge
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Learn to Negotiate and Close(readwriteweb.com)
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by jwesley 17y ago
Mark Cuban's argument about the economics of Free is much better than Anderson's original thesis or Gladwell's retort, which both rely heavily on convenient anecdotes and clever phrasing. I guess that's the difference between a successful b
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by jwesley 17y ago
Yea, I've had the same thing happen to me with a name that I posted on Sedo :) For what it's worth, owning a domain and not developing it is not "domain squatting" which is defined by law as "registering, trafficking in, or using a domain n
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by jwesley 17y ago
Not so much a startup, as a website that cycles through cheesy pickup lines.
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by jwesley 17y ago
Exactly. I'm sure this was really useful at the time, but SEO and the web as whole has changed drastically since 2002. It's gotten a lot more complicated and competitive.
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by jwesley 17y ago
Finally, vindication that Geocities is indeed more important than Facebook.
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by jwesley 18y ago
It's easy for him to say "just write passionately and the money will come" because that was more true 4 or 5 years ago when he first launched Daring Fireball and Merlin launched 43Folders. Since then the market has become overcrowded. Peopl

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