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jjohansson

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About jjohansson

Growth Marketer

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanssonjohan/

Recent public activity

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    Amazing tech, congratulations!

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    I completely agree -- but what I'd like to understand is what those risks are from the vaccine. In Canada, the risk from COVID is high, but not as high as that in the US.

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    Comment #25391570

    EDITED to remove most of the post. Does anyone have information on possible side effects?

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    Comment #24453471

    Great comment -- thank you! Positioning, messaging, and onboarding are all really important to startups and need attention. But they shouldn't be the focal point right away. In my …

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    I was the first Head of Marketing for a high growth tech company (we raised USD $71 million last year). I've been here almost 3 years, growing leads by 11x and revenue by millions …

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    Comment #24452641

    > IMO the challenge with marketing is the very high budget and lack of (visible) returns . Modern digital marketing is focused on measurability and ROI. Even traditional marketing …

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    Comment #24356830

    External links from Quora have the rel=nofollow attribute, so they don't help with SEO. Most SEOs would understand this.

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    Comment #23949573

    If you're looking for startup ideas, the best way is to talk to people in your target industry. Setup as many interviews as you can and ask them about what they do and the "pains" …

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    Comment #23945922

    Undoubtedly true. Doesn’t change the fact that true SEO is about helping the searcher resolve their query. Google is evil, but they have the best search algorithm in town.

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    Comment #23942863

    I’m an SEO person, and true SEO is about providing value and helping the searcher. Not about gaming it. Google does a great job at removing the black hats, and a pretty good job at…

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    To create value and to help others be successful

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    Comment #23716942

    Most analytics platforms will report on any straight direct line between spend and incremental revenue. The hard part is measuring the indirect part, as you mentioned, but it is po…

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    > When a recession happen the first to go is marketing. As a marketer, I have found the opposite to be true for some industries. For example, during 2007/2008 my digital marketing …

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    Comment #23704897

    This is a really cool tool! Wow.

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    Comment #22454923

    How do you identify bots on your personal sites?

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    Comment #22291029

    True, but Canada has roughly the same population as California. So objective total may not be the best metric. Clio raised $330 million last year.

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    Comment #22283515

    In 2019, PDFTron, a Vancouver-based tech company, received a USD $71 million investment from Silversmith Capital Partners (a Tier 1 growth equity firm). Vancouver’s tech scene is e…

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    Comment #22238254

    Build your personal brand through blogging (on a domain name you own).

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    Comment #22208248

    That would be 3d chess move by Google.

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    Comment #22119675

    Disclaimer: I work for PDFTron This is a very interesting field, and PDFTron has been doing similar work with ML and table extraction as part of our document understanding platform…

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    Comment #21848202

    PDFTron provides an SDK and isn't really meant as a plug-and-play end-user application. But it can accomplish what you're looking for. Here's how to extract text from a PDF based o…

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    Comment #21845706

    Commercial or open source? PDFTron can do it, but they’re not an open source project.

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