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by jwesley 18y ago
This blog post made my day. Now if only he can be retroactively removed from the NYT bestseller list. As bad as The Secret...
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by jwesley 18y ago
Unremarkable lifehack-type article, but still a good reminder to cut out distractions and do some actual work.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Very clever and has already garnered loads of media attention, but I always wonder with ad campaigns like this how much it really adds to the bottom line. Might just be an amusing waste of money.
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by jwesley 18y ago
"All I did for marketing in 2008 was email existing users" Seriously? That does not make any sense. Why not try a paid search campaign? Or networking with teachers via twitter? What is the purpose of building a business and then not doing a
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by jwesley 18y ago
The 10% increase in CTR from having the badge in your ad is a big incentive to search marketers. Theoretically that should decrease your click costs 10% or allow your ad to display in a higher position for the same bid. The 40% conversion r
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by jwesley 18y ago
Very nice! Now we just need a plugin that automatically silences troll commenters.
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by jwesley 18y ago
PageRank is a tool used to rank web pages in search results. But maybe Google is a Ponzi scheme. Users create all the content, Google sells all the ads!
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by jwesley 18y ago
How do you say "Tip people $20 and they will sometimes give you what you want." in 2000 words or more?
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by jwesley 18y ago
Dumb like a fox. That CEO probably issued himself several million worth of stock options.
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by jwesley 18y ago
This post is stolen from this site: http://vectortuts.com/articles/20-weird-logos-that-work-and-...
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by jwesley 18y ago
Having received the results of this article, I have ordered a printing of the internet.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Thank you. This is why I often skip straight to the comments.
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by jwesley 18y ago
The purpose of the comment was not to be cynical, but to poke a hole in the logic of the article. Humans like to believe we can explain everything, so when we cannot predict the success of startups, we look at already successful startups, a
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by jwesley 18y ago
Interesting, but I was hoping this story would deal more with psychic abilities. Headline should read: "Brain-Damaged Man Doesn't Know He Can See" Journalists, always over promising...
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by jwesley 18y ago
The misleading aspect you mentioned is exactly what irks me about the book. It is a fantasy being sold to every person working a dull job. The glorification of the no-work, jetsetting lifestyle is misleading as well. To have a profession an
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by jwesley 18y ago
This is a great interview question. The point isn't the actual answer, but the way an interviewee responds. It's a mind game to see how the person will react. Will they deny weakness? Will they confess a horrendous flaw? It reveals a lot of
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by jwesley 18y ago
Can't we all just proclaim in unison that The 4 Hour Work Week is crap and never mention Timothy Ferriss again?
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by jwesley 18y ago
Yes, but too bad no one ever writes blog posts about the millions of bad ideas that just turn into other bad ideas. That's the narrative bias in action.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Twitter users alone is a small sample, but I think there are other anecdotal samples that support (but can't prove) the author's hypothesis. I can't remember anyone talking about PlentyOfFish, and this includes people who have tried multipl
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by jwesley 18y ago
Stop respecting the predictions of economists. It is a social science that pretends to be a hard science, with disastrous results. Can anyone justify the efficient market hypothesis after the current crisis? This is all explained very well
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by jwesley 18y ago
I thought this blog post sucked until I came across the phrase "If you take a play from P Diddy’s biography..."
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by jwesley 18y ago
Digg has always been overrated. People voting on news stories was never a great business and the quality of the user base has significantly deteriorated over time. The smart people have moved on and the site is dominated by spammers and tro
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by jwesley 18y ago
I think that's just the result of people not closely examining the page and leaving a box checked, vs. deliberately checking it. Requiring users to do anything will almost always have a lower conversion rate than requiring them to do nothin
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by jwesley 18y ago
My startup idea is a web app that automatically generates startup ideas by randomly combining various inputs. I think this would be approximately as effective as throwing out ideas here and asking people to vote on them.
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by jwesley 18y ago
All the big tech blogs now suck. Except for Uncov.com, which rocks, and they aren't big. Actually I like Valleywag too, just because they're the only ones not circle jerking with the others.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Valleywag does have more integrity than TC. At least they post honest reviews of companies, instead of fluffing up miserable companies. For an example of this, check out the coverage TC (and nearly every other tech blog) gave to Mahalo Answ
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by jwesley 18y ago
Automated DMs are wack. Most of the ones I get are not spammy, but the impersonal nature just makes it tacky and self serving. The people doing it think they are helping themselves with word-of-mouth by appearing interested in new followers
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by jwesley 18y ago
I think retail companies becoming more media oriented will be a big trend. Rather than buying ads on popular blogs, why not hire a talented writer and turn your own website into a media platform? For the cost one person's salary you could p
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by jwesley 18y ago
Turning vague scientific studies into overpromising articles is a habit many writers find hard to change.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Very cool. I am not a hacker, but offered up my online marketing skills.

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