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They're doing in-home coffee, merch, etc. and now a big chain of pure retail locations. Starbucks is really starting to open up alternative revenue streams. Good for them.

This is a good article. I have a few issues with price-reduction for existing customers, though, that I want to highlight. I think it's fantastic that OP got the desired results on…

You can create a set of 301 redirects to make sure traffic that is sent directly to a given post finds the correct page. It will also let search engines re-index your content at th…

I think that's precisely what parent comment is referencing; the Music design scheme may be familiar to Android users, but non-Android users likely see it as a bit surprising/incon…

I'm not completely convinced that Bing lacks the user base to compete with Google. There are diminishing returns in user base volume after some point, and Bing has around 100mm US …

Of course more market share is good. But Microsoft is not purely interested in growing share with Bing; non-differentiation with Google is a good thing in and of itself. The less d…

Disagree for the most part. There's always something that can be given away for free: blog posts, free trials that lack support and require a paid upgrade for it (e.g. Magento), eb…

Not that this isn't a cool analysis, but seems as if there's selection bias to these data. Lots of psychographic segments will never start a search with "how can I...".

And the better the offer, the more a landing page can "get away" asking for. Offering a month of free software? Test and see if you can extract a company name and role from the vis…

Here's the 10,000,000,001st, if anyone's looking for a keepsake: http://twitter.com/SheSz_FUcINgBAD/status/10000000001

Which books did you find particularly influential?

Depends how well the ad was targeted and how well quotas were set and screened for. There's a few good ways to attract survey respondents through ads, and a whole lot of bad ways.