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jeffa107

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About jeffa107

Building websites in Seattle.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #540631

    The interface looks wonderful (although the login link is covered by the nav menu in Firefox 2). Nicely polished. One practical suggestion: when adding a bookmark my eye moves from…

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    Comment #533093

    Part time. But as the weeks go by it's more obvious that it needs to be full time. I took the day off yesterday and got more done than I have the previous eight or ten nights after…

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    Comment #372634

    Make more mistakes; don't be afraid to fail. A college degree is overrated; the opposite is true of self-teaching. Buy the Corvette. It's expensive and impractical but you'll never…

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    Comment #365596

    It's because most of us are still focused on building something people want. Without that, none of these other things matter. Most people who contribute to this community get that.…

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    Comment #365156

    "Truevert gives you special results—everything comes back through green-colored glasses. So a search for 'SUV' brings back HybridSUV.com as the top result. A search for 'building m…

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    Comment #364954

    Congratulations! Can you give us a sense of how successfully you've been able to monetize all the users you've gained? What sort of challenges do you face on that front?

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    Comment #363745

    The more niched your content, the less accurate that statement becomes.

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    Comment #362470

    Based on personal client experience, the ones most likely to need the service will have the least desire to pay anything for it. If they are willing to spend the kind of money to g…

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    Comment #341827

    I'm sure the companies behind news.com, blogs.com, tickets.com, shoes.com, and most others with generic names would argue that it's not moot, that it's the exception and not the ru…

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    Comment #341790

    Not necessarily. Perhaps it's easy to remember and it more easily found in search, but it's harder to build a brand around a generic name like markets.com. Bloomberg, The Street, a…