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by stevenklein 13y ago
We aren't using Google Analytics goal conversion tracking. Mixpanel was extremely useful just to see where the huge holes in our funnel were. For example, only 30% of the people that see our signup page end up signing up. Now that we k
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by stevenklein 13y ago
I definitely agree that the actual conversion rate of traffic to paid user is low -- we're hoping to get that number up to around 1% some day. I wouldn't say it's misleading though since we did actually triple the visit to pa
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by stevenklein 13y ago
Would be happy to elaborate on any of these points if you have any questions.
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How We Increased Our Conversion Rate By 311%(blog.statuspage.io)
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by stevenklein 13y ago
We use Floobits a few times a week to pair and it's incredible.
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by stevenklein 13y ago
Thanks! Hope it works well!
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by stevenklein 13y ago
Thanks!
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Control your status page with Hubot(blog.statuspage.io)
44 points by stevenklein 13y ago|5 comments
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Python.org has a new status page(python.statuspage.io)
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by stevenklein 13y ago
Steve from StatusPage here -- an issue like this is extremely rare so we just haven't prioritized a solution for it. This is something we plan on being able to handle in the future.
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by stevenklein 13y ago
Awesome cant wait to try it
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by stevenklein 13y ago
Yeah -- to be honest we were very lucky to have the kind of client we had. One word of caution I would give is splitting your time like that can has its drawbacks. Having three weeks to focus 100% on product was an enormous help in allowing
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by stevenklein 13y ago
Haha yeah that's where we didn't want to end up so we tried to get into our own product as quickly as possible.
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by stevenklein 13y ago
Scott and I were able to pretty much jump from full time employee to the 1 week on -- 3 week off model. We did have one client in between that was just a 4 week job. The only reason we were doing consulting was to bankroll us while we work
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by stevenklein 13y ago
What will the SEO effects of this be to existing .io site?
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by stevenklein 13y ago
Ah interesting take. Did you go through YC?
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by stevenklein 13y ago
Yeah we want to go close to the YC offices if possible. Do you know if most people do houses or apartments?
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Ask HN: Got into YC. Where do we live?
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by stevenklein 14y ago
We're looking to do more premium layouts and add metrics tracking in the near future. Where can I email you at to talk more about this?
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Bloggers: Please Start Accepting Micropayments(stevekle.in)
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Don't Consume When You Can Be Creating(stevekle.in)
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by stevenklein 14y ago
I think his answer was more or less in the "contact local agencies part". To add some color, it's likely there are already design/development shops in your city if you live somewhere with any kind of technology presence. If you don't know o
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by stevenklein 14y ago
Good luck!
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by stevenklein 14y ago
I would be interested in reading a blog post on what things work and what don't if you have the time to write it.
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by stevenklein 14y ago
We're still just starting out and estimating time is always a bit nerve racking. I'm hoping it gets easier as time goes on.
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by stevenklein 14y ago
We haven't tried billing by the day yet but this would definitely be an interesting experiment.
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by stevenklein 14y ago
Good luck!
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Quit My Job For Consulting: Two Months Later(stevekle.in)
157 points by stevenklein 14y ago|137 comments
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by stevenklein 14y ago
Hey guys thanks for the feedback. If there's one thing we need to work on it's definitely some of the front-facing, "here's what we're about" items. If you have any questions feel free to shoot me an email at steve@flyingkleinbrothers.com
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Thoughts on Starting Consulting(stevekle.in)
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