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by nathanbarry 10y ago
That's true. What's odd to me is that I'm not actually sure why or how RSS is broken, but bloggers are finding again and again that the engagement happens on the email list. Even though objectively RSS should be a much better
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Hey Graeme! Good to hear from you. Send me an email. I'd love to hear specifics on how the book and course sales are doing now!
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
This talk is so good.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Did you read the article you linked beyond the first paragraph?
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Yeah, It was an experiment I started running when I focused on ConvertKit. So far it's increased revenue, but it obviously has the side effect of fewer purchases.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Yep, like everyone is saying ConvertKit is about following content creators you get a lot of value or entertainment from. We tend to get better open rates and deliverability across the board because we exclude a lot of the traditional busin
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
I think it depends a lot on how specific you are. I hate generic cold emails as well, so I've always struggled with this. My theory is to just personalize as much as possible. And more importantly, only reach out to relevant potential
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Love this. I think early on I had the same idea as the commenter above—that 2-3 years without results is the anomaly and means it's time to move on. Hopefully we can tell more stories to show that two years really should be your minimu
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Huh, this is the first time I've heard it suggested that putting all of your savings into a company is not bootstrapping. And to add some detail, it was $5k initially, then $50k when it was time to focus on growth.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
For sure! I always want to know the details.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Originally we had it all lumped together as 3 weeks, but then when we hired in California we had to split it out and have at least 3 sick days. That was done before we were profitable, so we may still increase it. Also since people work fle
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Mental frameworks for making faster decisions(nathanbarry.com)
3 points by nathanbarry 10y ago|1 comments
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2016 in Review – The year I became a CEO(nathanbarry.com)
2 points by nathanbarry 10y ago|0 comments
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2017 State of the Blogging Industry Report(convertkit.com)
6 points by nathanbarry 10y ago|0 comments
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
I love the idea of having a car specifically for children to play. I'd pay extra for my kids (5 and 2) to have a place to play. Just a carpeted car with basic toys like many airports have.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Airfare is super cheap right now. So that helps. But most people in the US in tech will have access to credit cards. So it doesn't make sense to complain about someone showing you how to travel the world cheaper.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
But you can get the miles for free with a credit card sign up bonus, so it is actually $1,000 per month. The entire point is to learn how to use travel hacking to pick up hundreds of thousands of miles.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
I love travel hacking so much. In the last 5 years I've picked up about $40,000 worth of flights for just miles and taxes and fees. Now my entire family leverages credit card sign up bonuses for free flights. Hopefully this course will
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How to fly (almost) for free(learntravelhacking.com)
5 points by nathanbarry 10y ago|1 comments
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Hey thanks for sharing! Hope people enjoy the post and the customer focused angle.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
I worked on it pretty consistently all along. Though there were a few months in there where I only did 10-15 hours a week on ConvertKit.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
I'm not sure we could have. A year ago we had $10,000/month in revenue and more than that in expenses. It's really hard to be profitable before you have meaningful revenue. We were profitable from July to December last year,
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Those are mostly from asking for volume discounts. At that time we were spending over $4,000/month, so it wasn't more than a 20% discount. Now that we're at $10,000 per month I was able to get another $1,500 knocked off.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Yeah, now that we have a decent amount of cash on hand Wells Fargo and other banks have offered to reconsider on smaller lines of credit ($100k).
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
Ah, I didn't know that! For some reason I always thought of them as self-funded until that funding round.
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by nathanbarry 10y ago
A friend described it to me as AWS wanting to get a few multi-million dollar per year accounts. By offering tiny amounts of credit to every YC startup, they know they have a good shot of getting a couple of those each year. Which totally ma
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by nathanbarry 11y ago
Thanks for sharing this. It's exactly as you said: we were getting bogged down because the work felt impossible. That was affecting the attitude and productivity of the entire team. It's amazing how much more you can do when it fe
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by nathanbarry 11y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I've always appreciated the HN community. Happy to answer any questions! (Also, that's a weird title. Any mods want to change it?)
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Are You in It for the Long Haul?(recode.net)
17 points by nathanbarry 11y ago|1 comments
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Working in Public – Introducing the ConvertKit Monthly Report(convertkit.com)
2 points by nathanbarry 11y ago|0 comments

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