luckyisgood

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by luckyisgood 10y ago
There used to be "just a book" option before at $49 if I remember correctly, that's when I bought it. So I'm pretty sure Nathan's decision to remove that option is intentional, or an experiment of sorts. The book is
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by luckyisgood 11y ago
Preserving rich formatting would also be nice.
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by luckyisgood 11y ago
Wow, you filled a huge gap I could not believe I couldn't find a solution before, and I've searched. All I ever wanted to do on my desktop is this: 1) Select some text on the screen 2) Have the text AND the URL to the source copie
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by luckyisgood 12y ago
What this and all other software projects need is marketing . There is just too much noise out there. We landed on a comet last year and we still needed marketing to let the people know about it. If we invented free energy tomorrow, we&#
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Tips on avoiding the consulting famine, from experienced consultants(studiofellow.com)
2 points by luckyisgood 12y ago|0 comments
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by luckyisgood 12y ago
Charging more is only half the work on escaping feast and famine cycles when you're a freelancer or an agency. A while ago, I wrote a post to my inner circle of email suscribers about one sure way I've found that works when it com
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by luckyisgood 12y ago
How about you offer your client that it would be YOU who would help find another person for that other project for your current client, so you form a team of two? If your client is not a developer or a technical person, it's 100x harde
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by luckyisgood 12y ago
It depends on what you want to do next and from which sources you want to build your recurring revenue. Building recurring revenue before quitting the client or venturing in a product business is the key. Let's say that your one curren
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by luckyisgood 12y ago
It depends whether every web dev / web agency should do this. If the agency grows big enough to hire an administrator (in-house or outsourced), and the agency is capable of adding value to the hosting service, then why not. Customers l
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by luckyisgood 12y ago
"There's no money in the hosting without a webapplication part (my 2 cents)" - totally agree, that was my experience too. So you actually asked about selling services and apps hosted in the cloud? That is a good business, if
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by luckyisgood 12y ago
The way I see this "clients do or do not need support" is this (and this metaphor faired well with clients, to help them understand why support and maintenance is absolutely crucial): I personally don't need medical insurance
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by luckyisgood 12y ago
Web agency founder with a decade of experience in selling websites here. I wrote a book on the subject of recurring revenue for web agencies and web professionals, all based on our experience. Here's what worked for us: - after selling
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by luckyisgood 12y ago
The combination of Github + markdown for writing a (technical) book is exactly what https://leanpub.com/ is all about, check it out. (Or, instead of writing markdown on Github, you can upload your markdown files to Dropbox
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A Tiny List of Immutable Project Management Rules For Digital Agencies(simpfinity.com)
1 points by luckyisgood 13y ago|0 comments
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by luckyisgood 13y ago
This is a great lesson from the article: "Prioritize the opportunities that are furthest along, biggest, and most likely to close. If you do that, you’ll manage your pipeline most efficiently." -> the best way to learn how to p
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by luckyisgood 13y ago
Looks good! I'm looking at the pricing table here: https://microco.sm/compare/ . The plan that is highlighted by default to me has a price in British pounds while all other s have prices in US dollars. Consider ch
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by luckyisgood 13y ago
The question is "why this particular project and why now?" and the article deals with the exact questions one should or should not ask when talking to new clients on the phone and also with what to do with answers you receive.
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Best First Question to Ask on the Phone When Selling Web Development Services(simpfinity.com)
3 points by luckyisgood 13y ago|1 comments
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by luckyisgood 13y ago
This is Baekdal's follow up post to a recently popular article "How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry" which you can comment on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7161901
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When Done Right, In-App Purchases can be Based on Trust(baekdal.com)
2 points by luckyisgood 13y ago|1 comments
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by luckyisgood 13y ago
Because you need to be focused on one goal only. This campaign's goal is to reach 15,000 EUR. The target audience for this particular campaign are people who already signed the initiative and who are mostly informed about the Initiativ
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by luckyisgood 13y ago
The goal has been set at 15,000 EUR and the duration of the campaign at only 14 days. There are still 12 days left in this campaign and the donations keep coming in.
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This basic income crowdfunding campaign reached its goal in less than 48 hours(funding.basicincome2013.eu)
43 points by luckyisgood 13y ago|101 comments
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by luckyisgood 13y ago
Thank you for this image. It helps us basic income activists explain to people that basic income is about redistribution, and how it works. I don't know if you know this or not, but this image is being shared on Facebook and Twitter li
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by luckyisgood 13y ago
Actually, basic income does not encourage laziness (that's a common misconception based on our personal opinions which make sense from a certain point of view and from a confirmation bias). I'm currently researching basic income a
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by luckyisgood 13y ago
This quote intrigued me to share this article for further discussion because I want to see this happen sooner than later: "What would be appealing to Google would be the ability to produce city wide legislature that allowed them to use
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What if Google bought Detroit?(brandonhtomlin.blogspot.com)
34 points by luckyisgood 13y ago|63 comments
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by luckyisgood 13y ago
Quote from the article: "So what do I ask for? A service (that I’d personally be willing to pay a nominal fee for [re: $20/yr.]) that combines feeds from nearly every social media service, provides very flexible organization of them, and is
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by luckyisgood 14y ago
So, the email list still owns any other marketing channel. Not a surprise. Only a reminder to set up my own for my own ebook.
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by luckyisgood 14y ago
Awesome results. I congratulate you, Jarrod. Your book is exactly what I need (I'm a sales geek running a custom software development agency, and I'm design-challenged). I just bought your book via a retweet I stumbled upon yesterday. Your

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