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by patrickambron 14y ago
Thanks again everyone, I'm truly flattered. We had some great discussions (have some catch-up to do today, had no idea I'd be spending so much time on HN :)). Since so many people were curious to see the affect HN would have on our signups,
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Can't say I blame you, actually. At the time of Launch, it looked like our widest reaching "crediblity booster". I think we should go ahead and change that now
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by patrickambron 14y ago
1) We happen to have a value proposition that appeals to almost everyone. Almost everyone has Googled their name, and thought about improving their results in some way or another--maybe there's something embarrassing, or maybe someone else
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Hey, thanks man
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Our view is pretty simple on this: Whether you like it or not, people are going to Google you, and they expect to find you. 75% of HR depts. are now required to Google candidates before searching for them, 30% of all daily searches are fo
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Yep. Basically if you're using Google behind the HTTPS (like you're logged into Google+) they'll send back a non referral header. There ARE ways around this, but it's tricky
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Yea you can get a similar list from a few places. The problem will be that manytimes the IP will return the company's ISP, which isn't useful for the user
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by patrickambron 14y ago
I'd honestly argue that this is the most important role in the company. As a startup--your company is your product and for or all intents and purposes the product design is the product. Yes, it needs to be supported by a strong, scalabl
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by patrickambron 14y ago
When we first created the profiles, we wanted to optimize for your industry as well. We didn't want people putting in anything so at first we just used the industries used by the US Labor Dept (LinkedIn does the same). Now we allow you to m
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by patrickambron 14y ago
This is a really good idea (we encourage users to do it). If you have too common a name, use a middle initial. The trick is, you need to use that name in prof. setting (biz card, resume, etc) otherwise people will still Google the other nam
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by patrickambron 14y ago
We should hire you ;)
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by patrickambron 14y ago
See above Do you have any experience with this at all?
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by patrickambron 14y ago
What do you mean by regionally tiered pricing? Right now all pricing is in USD which could be another reason for the drop off. Does anybody have experience with this type of thing? PS-certain countries are put on an invite list so they can'
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Do you dislike the quote, or the fact that it's from Fox news?
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by patrickambron 14y ago
I think I may do one
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Just the first response (I created an account a while ago pcambron, forgot about it, created the patrick ambron account, and somehow logged into the old one)
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Surprisingly, very few analytics companies do. I'd go as far as to say just us (at least in what I've seen) The reason is, most analytics company's are meant for places that get a lot of traffic. It's not really appealing or useful to have
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Right now we use braintree to process payments. They accept all major credit cards, in all countries. It keeps it simple on our end, but if someone in, say Brazil, doesn't use a major credit card, then we can't accept their payment. It's qu
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Awesome! Feel free to reach out if you want to make sure you're doing everything you can or if you have any questions pambron[at]brandyourself[dot]com
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by patrickambron 14y ago
That's a really good idea. It could serve the purpose of giving you a badge, but it could also be a protective measure, because it means we won't let somebody else with your info use the service (since they aren't verified)
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Thanks Eli. That's actually because I just created this blog about 2-3 days ago (this was my first post). It'll take a bit before it's picked up and starts ranking. That said, I should see it go up soon, since I use BrandYourself :)
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Sometimes a name is just too competetive to realistically expect to own the first page. That said, using our service, you are very likely to get some stuff about you up there. That visibility is important. If your name is Brad Pitt, people
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Thanks Nickler. Glad we were able to convert you :) We've actually found that startup founders/entrepreneurs are great, great users for us. If you're interested I'd love to talk to you on the phone, and get an idea of how you approached the
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Yea, we actually WANT to talk to to as many users as possible. We get at least half a dozen calls a day. Trevor, our "customer happiness officer" spends all day talking to customer, answering people's email, etc. It does a few things 1) Peo
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Hey everyone, just wanted to say I'm truly flattered my blog got posted to HN and made the front page (I'm the author). I hope people found it helpful 2 comments 1) Some of you wanted to know how HN compares to other sources for us, in term
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Nothing in the direct roadmap, but that's a great idea. Right now we're focusing on being more directly integrated w sites so we can you improve them right from us. But again, that's a very good idea
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Hey these are really good questions 1) In terms of duplicate names, the product also helps you optimize for specific relevant terms like "Patrick Ambron, developer" or "Patrick Ambron, BrandYourself" "patrick ambron, NYC" etc. So people loo
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Thanks. The trick is to figure out how a viral mechanism that aligns with your actual value prop. People want their links to show up higher in google, and sharing them on social networks will actually help in that process. It fits :)
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by patrickambron 14y ago
http://www.patrickambron.me/2012/07/12/we-unexpectedly-got-6...
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Yea that's a good point. The nice part is, we don't create any profiles or links on behalf of the user. They need authenticate things like twitter, fb, etc on their own, so they actually need to have or create these profiles. They need to g

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