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by mikhaill 14y ago
FYI. It works in some localities. Many of the New York City McDonalds have delivery offered by the restaurant itself.
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by mikhaill 15y ago
A small site I put together as a weekend project. For now limited to NYC (because that's where I'm) to figure out the right features and get some traction in one small area before opening up to other areas. The goal is to help runners find
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Show HN: Finding running partners to run together.(mile24.com)
1 points by mikhaill 15y ago|1 comments
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by mikhaill 15y ago
Jason, What's the rationale for bringing fulfillment inhouse? The economics and market trends seem to move the other way, in favor of drop shipping as much as possible. Catalog data problems? Financial? Branded customer experience? Partne
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by mikhaill 15y ago
Just to add one more point, the "offer" to keep the curtain was not done out of good will. The cost of them offering free shipping back to the consumer, re-stocking it, etc (do they even own their own inventory or is everything dropshipped?
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by mikhaill 15y ago
Just as a note, I know that for e-commerce shopping cart forms, we specifically force users to enter their address information and zip code. No matter what you think, users aren't paying attention to what they enter in the forms. Forcing th
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by mikhaill 15y ago
Forgot to mention, there is a lot of pros/cons to 3rd party fulfillment and it has to be done right. If you seriously decide to look into 3PL warehouses, I'll be happy to give you more info about what you need to look at.
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by mikhaill 15y ago
Certainly. None of these require 6 figure payments. There are some setup fees, (very reasonable) and then they usually charge per action (items packed, computers checked, etc). Ones I worked with and would recommend: http://parcelport.net
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by mikhaill 15y ago
Product fulfillment is hard but doesn't have to be a pain. There are plenty of very sophisticated 3PL warehouses that can do any type of fulfillment you need. At my last job I managed an e-commerce business and our process was so streamline
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by mikhaill 15y ago
The companies you mention are all fine shopping cart providers, but someone who's selling more then a few products (not even the size of Target) needs much more then a simple shopping cart. * Integration into their inventory systems and mul
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by mikhaill 15y ago
To follow up to the parent, there is a lot more to B-school then just to network. From common MBA-bashing that takes places on HN it seems that that many people fail to grasp the difference between building a product and building a company.
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by mikhaill 15y ago
You need to link your Google Analytics account to your Adwords account and all the information will flow automatically. After doing this, in your GA account under Traffic Source, the AdWords will populate with all your stats. http://www.go
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by mikhaill 15y ago
Here are a few tips that I always find useful for any AdWords campaign I setup. * Select Google Search only * Geo-target to US/Canada only (or add more countries if relevant) * Enter negative keywords for the campaign that we know aren't bu
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by mikhaill 15y ago
Thanks so much for your help. I'll definitely check out the book. For others who may be looking, I found these excellent Xcode4 screencasts: http://pragmaticstudio.com/screencasts
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Ask NH: MacOS / XCode 4 Guides, Books, Tutorials?
6 points by mikhaill 15y ago|3 comments
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by mikhaill 15y ago
This is a great post to get people thinking about the amount of time and effort that's required to build a great user interface and work flow scenarios. It took me a long time to appreciate the difference a great interface makes for an appl
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by mikhaill 16y ago
So essentially what we have is a 1% unsubscribe rate for an e-mail, which is above his .5% average but it's still within the range of error and many things could effect the unsubs except the email content. Maybe his e-mail list is growing a