nfailor

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by nfailor 13y ago
yeah upvotes must just be for humiliation's sake.
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by nfailor 13y ago
someone with a little more time than me can probably find a full .pdf I don't have one handy but http://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/d... data gathering is largely the problem there--so we a
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by nfailor 13y ago
fix turf cutting yet?
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by nfailor 13y ago
wells does same day ACH debits? when'd that happen?
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by nfailor 13y ago
as someone who launched a marketing firm on the basis of copywriting I'm going to give you a spot or two of advice. it's a service that's one of the first to cut when expenditure budgets get tightened. the best skill you can
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by nfailor 13y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that the pain of dating apps is actually scheduling the date.
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by nfailor 13y ago
all I need to be happy is a bright set of color changing LED bulbs--you're lying to yourself if you think otherwise.
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by nfailor 13y ago
which is a client-centric failure. convincing a small business (such as a kayak rental outfit) why that they ought to invest in targeted search [which would have a favorable effect] gets a lot harder when they're only pitched for the s
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by nfailor 13y ago
that's actually still about mindshare though--that's why radio ads still exist. they catch you on the way to the store.
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by nfailor 13y ago
yes, the ROI centric approach is problematic--but that's client side.
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by nfailor 13y ago
again, that's a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of advertising. http://www.commissionedwriting.com/CONFESSIONS%20OF%20AN%20A...
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by nfailor 13y ago
1) those are not advertisers, those are direct mailing etc., outfits. I think they're annoying too. I don't use them. If a client suggests using them, I suggest they find a new agency. I suggest you write a note to the CEO and dis
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by nfailor 13y ago
1. we do the best we can to target. you get blanketed by irrelevant ads for a myriad of reasons not limited to: -lazy clients who don't understand their userbase -ads for things you might be interested in being choked out by higher pay
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by nfailor 13y ago
not even close to 'huge,' although my english syntax is a little rusty.
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by nfailor 13y ago
I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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by nfailor 13y ago
psah, haven't lived unless you did it on the 1k.
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by nfailor 13y ago
...which is precisely why it worked well for travel and cards...
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by nfailor 13y ago
that was an underpaid job ten years ago when it was called technical writing. barely above minimum in mturk is a sad direction.
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by nfailor 13y ago
is it really a 'fleet' of satellites?
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by nfailor 13y ago
no it's not, it's growable+cloneable.
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by nfailor 13y ago
Absolutely. If you're starting up you should be questioning the ROI on everything--and trying to figure out what it may be for a VC is part of that. There's no free l(a)unch.
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by nfailor 13y ago
the impact/influence/experimental marketing world has a few source texts and starting points but by and large we keep that stuff in-house. people get upset when they realize "ten cool uses for Milk" is an ad for milk...
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by nfailor 13y ago
this. I would add, I usually give myself twenty four hours between drafting and submission of any seriously emotionally charged communications. sometimes you don't need it, but you want to be as calm (hah) as possible.
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by nfailor 13y ago
the tech industry would do much better if it would circumvent VC by going B2C...
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by nfailor 13y ago
so green dot bought a bank?
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by nfailor 13y ago
also, I'm fairly confident he's traveling on asylum papers from Ecuador. US passport is irrelevant.
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by nfailor 13y ago
well, if he spends the evening in a Havana hotel he won't be that far from USINT.