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by mcdowall 18y ago
We use Twitter regularly for updates for special offers now we are live to our 2000 or so followers, it sure would be an excellent way of increasing followers and probably extremely cost effective, even at $120,000 per year. That sort of mo
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Ive been visiting this site for a while...were not alone! http://pleasefixtheiphone.com/ The lack of Multimedia messaging on apparently the worlds most advanced phone is my biggest gripe.
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Im actually in the process of working on a site for this at the moment, theres a couple of sites already up and running but in my opinion still much more work needed to offer a compelling all in solution Hopefully I will be back here in a m
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Ive spent a fair while scouring the site and yet to find any form of pricing options for hosting on my own domain, the guys definitely need a lot more call to action points. Ill just have to go about it the old fashioned way of emailing the
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by mcdowall 18y ago
This is something I am definitely going to look into for my new learning / tutorial site. Saves building our own player or shelling out £26,000 for Brightcove (The quote they gave me!)
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Cheers, having a peek now
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Ask HN : How to check multiple keyword positions on Search Engines?
2 points by mcdowall 18y ago|4 comments
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Even that is insane!! I have a share in the freehold of my flat in the UK, my maintenance comes in at £480 per annum, this includes buildings insurance, cleaning, heating and general building maintenance. Thats pretty damn steep over there!
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Cheers for this link mate, having a look now Ive been struggling looking for a new projects domain for days now, snapnames, freshdrop, domainpigeon (from here), so hopefully you might have some suggestions!!
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by mcdowall 18y ago
What a wierd comment
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by mcdowall 18y ago
We currently lease offices out of our local university (excellent subsidised rates!) so I am already over this, I've sent out a press release relevant to the local market and the university. We should get some links on their innovation cen
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by mcdowall 18y ago
I remember reading this a few years ago. We had an SEO firm perform some site analysis for a previous site and have just taken onboard the main principles and tried to replicate them. I think thats a good assumption reading up on it in more
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Exactly, were aware of the relevance of keywords and the optimization of our deep level pages with more detailed keywords. We have started a review this week of our internal link structure and the use of more specific travel terms, ie 'holi
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Thanks for the info, I was somewhat sceptical we had just jumped from PR4-7 overnight, I have seen a large number of new inbound links but seeing as we only migrated the site over onto the new servers and propagated the URL last week we sti
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Ask HN: How Trustworthy is Google PageRank?
10 points by mcdowall 18y ago|23 comments
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Definitely try to incentivize the business owners to update their listings. I think you will find if you can provide them a login to view some form of stats then word of mouth would carry a lot of weight here
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Reminds me of Lorenzo's Oil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104756/
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by mcdowall 18y ago
feel free to email me - jameskmcdowall at gmail dot com
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by mcdowall 18y ago
#4 This site comes to mind... http://www.privateislandsonline.com/ Just make sure theres no local pirates!
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Me too, excellent clean design by the way.
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Its not that the fraud rates are high but rather that if an airline or supplier in the chain fails then the credit card company are liable for the refund to the customer. The Risk lies with them. So for example XL Airways going bust earlie
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Your 404 page did make me chuckle.. http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/ "yeah no"
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by mcdowall 18y ago
We are in the Online Travel Industry, for people who dont know the forward book and high possibility of cancellations (Chargebacks) makes travel regarded in the same category as Adult Porn and Online Gambling sites in terms of risk. It has
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by mcdowall 18y ago
http://be-a-magpie.com/ are already using the information in my tweets to post ads based on my content. There is a community wide negativity towards serving ads to your followers. With Twitter still unable to come up with a definitive f
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Cheers, Ill go check out RT
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Indeed, we are looking for support ticket software moreover. We are an online travel agency so for each customer sale there are a fair few steps; ticketing / supplier payment filtering / confirmation notifications plus customer contact issu
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Ask HN: Customer Service Ticketing Software
2 points by mcdowall 18y ago|9 comments
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Why not advertise the post on Elance / Guru, if anything at least if you put the project on there you will get a host of companies (mainly India based) that can work remotely. Might be worthwhile outsourcing some so at least you are gatheri
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by mcdowall 18y ago
Weve used Elance.com and Guru.com for numerous different outsourcing projects beforehand, including sales. To be honest though it does depend on location, having had salaried, salary + commission, commission only, remote commission only it