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everythingswan

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About everythingswan

brianswanick.com - I used to fix broken marketing programs for growing companies. Now do biz ops.

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    My interpretation of their point was that more demand for water with a fixed supply of water will only make our water problems worse. Not that data centers are causing this problem…

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    I also communicate this to people I work with since I'm not always in full ownership of what needs to get done. I am highly capable of deeply working on several wildly different th…

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    Comment #30526927

    Bounce rate just means that someone came to your site and did not interact with the analytics DB in any other way. A user can scroll up and down 50x, stay until 29 minutes and 59 s…

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    Comment #28645172

    With SQL, there are many different ways to write a query and to get the correct result returned to you. Instead of "1+1=2" being the only answer, it'd be more like: "1+1=2", "2+0=2…

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    GA uses first-party cookies so Firefox does not block the data. Only third-party cookies mentioned here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/compare/chrom... I just doub…

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    Comment #27637989

    I've had to relearn concepts 2-3x and deal with silly mistakes I made, rewriting some programs. I know a little bit about databases so that gave me a good foundation to work with. …

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    Comment #27633982

    I'm a marketer tinkering with Python. Since Python is so versatile, lots of uses for a marketer like me. I started off with a few Coursera courses going over the basics (Programmin…

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    Comment #27195960

    As a climber and marketer, this is how I feel. You may need some help on sales copy but this is a marketing problem--who is this for and through what channels can i reach them? The…

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    It's certainly worth talking about and fixing--the difference between segmentation and discrimination. Like in the HUD case mentioned in the article, discriminating based on age, g…

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    Comment #26713101

    It's more explicit now. Most sites add the Facebook Pixel as they want to track conversions on their site. Most brands have this on their site. Facebook can do all of the analysis …

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    Comment #25477390

    Yea, that's a really insightful take and I didn't take that into account when I was thinking about this earlier. Appreciate your take!

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    Comment #25469765

    Some SMB's that I have met over the years are great at pretending they don't have money when hiring but are very profitable. I think that fits the "bad company, no financing" and i…

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    Yea, the functioning/viable business piece has a place in this discussion. I can understand why the author wouldn't include it but it serves us here. To take on debt like mentioned…

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    Comment #25269121

    This reveals the joy of gift-giving. I had always shied away from trying hard to find a great gift. I was afraid I would give a terrible, terrible gift (I'm not great at receiving …

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    Comment #25245509

    The Python for Everybody course was great. I was excited to complete it (well, the first 3 courses in the roadmap): https://www.coursera.org/specializations/python As a non-program…

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    Comment #25123508

    It sounds like you hired it for specific reasons, finding a low cost option quickly or treating yourself to _all the things_, and I don't think AirBnB tries to do those things well…

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    Comment #25085108

    There was an interesting section in Risk Factors, on pages 39 - 40. >> Our marketing efforts currently include referrals, affiliate programs, free or discount trials, partnerships,…

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    I want to know if I'm reading this wrong because our conclusions were different. It feels like they tested whether additional mentorship worked, it didn't, but their conclusion was…

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    I've been using this combo for a while and it works really well. I have 2-4 profiles open at one time and just whitelist my inbox and a few other sites/apps I frequent while workin…

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    It'd be helpful to add some context from your position since I bet you (and/or C-suite) bring a lot of your own expertise to the company and some people may not have those in their…

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    I had to learn to love those boring things for the positive outcomes I got from them. It's nowhere near perfect, but I know if I do all the right things during the day, I will get …

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    Comment #24159158

    I see about 10-12 paragraph indents, although short, so it might be an issue on your end. NYPost does have an intense number of ads so perhaps a blocker issue?

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    I've seen that gap mentioned a few times in this thread. I checked out the visual in the thread [1] and I have a question since time makes everything complicated. This is definitel…

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