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Ayraa

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    Comment #25625483

    What was the bounce rate, avg visit time and conversion rate (email signup) between people who came from the non-designed vs. designed ad though? A higher clickthrough rate isn't n…

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    Comment #23458128

    One of the most useful design-related tools I've found is this color picker which generates complimentary colors for you based on model of your choice (triadic, analogous, etc.): h…

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    Comment #22832437

    What made the biggest difference for me was using a text to speech reader to proofread and edit. You are able to catch a lot of phrasing that looks ok but sounds wrong or awkward t…

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    Comment #22750804

    Agree the post over-complicates this. Also, the message and approach should be very different depending on who you're reaching out to and for what reason (example: getting a job ve…

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    Comment #22260809

    Finally! Whenever Netflix features a scary show or movie on their homepage and their preview auto-plays, it always make me jump.

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    Comment #21610128

    Chaz, great work creating this. My only thought is, I wonder how well these ecommerce emails perform. The majority of them are very image heavy, which affects deliverability and co…

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    Comment #20680465

    Search Engine Roundtable conducted a survey after the medic update, here are the categories of websites that were affected: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.seroundtable.com/google-…

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    Comment #19422619

    As other people have already commented, Gumroad raised venture capital ( https://medium.com/s/story/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build... ) before. Sahil had to revert Gumroad to a …

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    Comment #18834363

    It would be really cool if you could paste the url to an image, have a generator overlay the fire effect on top, and you can save that as a gif.

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    Comment #18831993

    I would actually look up mid-size businesses you'd like to work with (who can use your skills) and email the owner or manager who works in an area related to your services. Let's s…

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    Comment #18271021

    To add to this, it may take a long time to build a big enough audience to make money off ads. But you can use these educational articles as content marketing and lead generation fo…

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    Comment #17333852

    Believe it or not, really realistic looking computer generated Instagram influencers already exist. Example: https://www.instagram.com/lilmiquela/ - 1.2m followers

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    Comment #13346912

    Your story really resonated with me. I think one of the biggest issue education / society has not adequately addressed is, even with a curious mind, as a teenager, you don't get to…

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    Comment #13342078

    Have you taken a look at his main site? He's selling a course on growth marketing. I'm pretty sure being a freelancer journalist is not his main gig. Rather, this article was suppo…

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    Comment #13288949

    Maybe the time and effort demands of both wouldn't have allowed it but given how Patrick's personal debt grew, it seems it would have helped to do at least a little bit of consulti…

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    Comment #13057762

    Random: I'm surprised that Boosted Board is still using "perfect for the last mile of your commute" in their marketing slogan. All the influencers I've seen with it (like Casey Nei…

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    Comment #12953623

    I just created a separate email address to receive all the newsletters I enjoy reading but don't want to mix with my work/personal emails. I check it 1-2 times a week. Works beauti…

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    Comment #12918183

    Interesting how she pushed hard her book GirlBoss while her business was alreafy floundering. And now it's filing for bankrutcy. Can you trust any of the advice from her book? If a…

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    Comment #12885544

    In a similar spirit, it could be cool if some coffeeshops and restaurants explicitly designated one of their communal table as a 'talk table'. Where if you sit at it, it means you …

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    Comment #12747406

    A lot of the students enrolled hoping to get a job later. The scam aside, this goes to show that too many people still believe in the old system: learn skill in school -> get job. …

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    Comment #12681431

    If you read the interviews of a lot of investors, many of them mention they invested because they believed so strongly in the founder. Afterwards, when their crazy concept works (e…

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    Comment #12649171

    As a regular user of all the main email marketing services: I feel Mailchimp is missing the boat by focusing entirely on email and not offering a way to contact customers via: 1. I…