andyakb

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by andyakb 8y ago
First, I just want to say that building anything and getting paying customers is never easy so it's impressive to see what these guys have done. While there is definitely a large market of agencies suffering from this problem, I don&#x
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by andyakb 11y ago
I dont think OP is suggesting buying their oil to somehow impact the price, and is instead saying that the cost US oil companies are paying to extract oil themselves is more than it would cost them to just buy it from Saudi companies
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by andyakb 11y ago
This is true, but it is very, very unlikely that anybody would pay 8x yearly revenue for it
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by andyakb 11y ago
Would your earnings teaching English in Japan cover living expenses and debt? If it would, the go for it. If it wouldn't, figure something else out. If you do go for it, and don't want to make this a permanent change, make sure
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by andyakb 11y ago
Without touching on the other examples, insisting that you stay for a full day isn't unreasonable, let alone abusive. While it would have been nice for him to be a bit more empathetic to your situation, it isn't his fault you did
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by andyakb 11y ago
If that 1 out of 50 was picked by random, then that might be correct, but the article makes it seem as though that isn't the case. Since most of these autopsies are conducted when foul play is suspected or when the cause of death is
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by andyakb 11y ago
I don't think its fair to say FB ads dont work as well when your audience is not ready to buy. If you try to run an Adwords style campaign on FB, then you are right, that isn't very likely to work but that isnt because of FB. The
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by andyakb 11y ago
What did you do to get those first 1,000 customers? What are you actively doing now to try to get the next thousand?
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by andyakb 12y ago
What are you doing to market the product? From the outside, it seems likely that you have the common developer mentality of "If I build it, the customers will come." If a business does not have a reliable, repeatable way to acquir
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The mystery of the ‘recycled’ iPhones(sddt.com)
2 points by andyakb 12y ago|0 comments
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by andyakb 12y ago
Why the hate for consultants who write books? If they dont provide value in the material then sure, that sucks, but if it is worthwhile information why should I care if they use it to help get consulting clients? Shouldnt I be happy that
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by andyakb 12y ago
In the author's first letter to Christopher Knight, he told him that he was a journalist
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by andyakb 12y ago
Bill Gates is older than Steve Ballmer, they were friends, and his stint at Harvard was not short
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by andyakb 12y ago
This misses the point of the article. The author's premise is that you burnout because you do not spend time on the things that truly fulfill you, whatever those may be. It is very possible, and maybe even probable, that people who do
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by andyakb 12y ago
>>There's gotta be an official name for these. That skinny page with varying font sizes of text images or embedded youtube videos encouraging you to buy/ act now / sign-up for their free newsletter til a big call-to-act
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by andyakb 12y ago
Exactly. It is the same story when people say "Facebook ads don't work" or whatever the new ad platform is. If you could simply hand $X to an ad company and reliably return $2 X or even $1.2 X then the money would simply not
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by andyakb 12y ago
Give me a break. Cuban is the first to admit that he got lucky in terms of his valuation, but it wasnt his first exit and his extensive writing on business should show that his success was not the result of luck. Further, if it werent for h
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by andyakb 12y ago
Yes. Your value as a consultant is dependent upon being able to deliver value to clients. From the sounds of it, you are a reasonably skilled programmer, so the difficulty is not on the technical side but on explaining to business owners
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by andyakb 12y ago
If they are shipping items that require a prescription without verifying a prescription, then they are illegal, regardless of what the items are
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by andyakb 12y ago
Wondering how to get your first client as a consultant for a non-technical role? Creating something as thorough as this is probably a good place to start. When people talk about creating great content, they dont mean a weekly roundup post,
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An In-Depth Inbound Marketing Audit of Buffer(elioverbey.net)
1 points by andyakb 12y ago|1 comments
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by andyakb 12y ago
Will serious companies actually post the money to an escrow? I dont have any experience with this directly, but cant imagine any company with say >100 employees would respond favorably to this request
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by andyakb 12y ago
You should never negotiate by giving a range. AT BEST they will give you the bottom end of that range. If the highest they can go is $60k, then start at 70 and dont counter below 60.
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by andyakb 12y ago
What other specifics could he have included? He showed his methodology in finding a problem, the way he found customers [including the copy in his ad], how he structured a email course, and the final product. The only other thing he could
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by andyakb 12y ago
I agree that your free trial was at the very least much too long, and that the money back guarantee makes a lot of sense for a bootstrapped SaaS company [Jason from WPEngine strongly recommends this as well]; however, I would interpret some
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by andyakb 12y ago
I agree with this, however I would add a 30-60 day money back guarantee as a sort of "trial" to help communicate that if people arent happy with the product they can get their money back
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by andyakb 12y ago
OK, and where are you located? how long does it take you to get there and back? what would the cost be if you didnt own a car?
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How Important Is Your Portfolio?(planscope.io)
3 points by andyakb 12y ago|0 comments
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by andyakb 13y ago
None of the servers for Pokerstars we in the US, and none of their bank accounts were either, however the DOJ was still able to seize those accounts. The US is not trying to stop online poker worldwide, they are trying to stop online poker
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by andyakb 13y ago
Im very confused about what you are trying to prove with your server example. The hard part of your example has nothing to do with building a cheap server rack and everything to do with the fact that it is very difficult to build a website

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