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ryankelly

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About ryankelly

I'm the founder and CEO of Pear Analytics, a San Antonio startup building software to help people drive more traffic to their site.

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    Comment #5000186

    This is almost always the first reaction from customers. They love that they are able be "everywhere" for relatively little money.

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    Comment #5000173

    I've used Retargeter in the past, but at a $500 per month flat fee, it's not always going to win over our customers. They prefer the smaller, weekly billing based on usage model.

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    Why I Moved From AdRoll to Perfect Audience

    This week, I decided to move our ad retargeting business from AdRoll to Perfect Audience for a number of reasons, which I will explain: 1) Better Results A few weeks ago, I wrote a…

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    Comment #4918775

    Hi Tom, Ryan from Pear here. AdRoll did not have the Facebook Exchange option when it was available, and we saw Perfect Audience had it first. Also, I do have the same conversion g…

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    Comment #2798555

    I'm not a rider, but I like the elevation map in the example. Nice feature.

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    Comment #2181894

    I like this idea! I could use it just about every day. How will you monetize it?

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    Comment #1764026

    Try www.pearanalytics.com. We scan your website in 30 seconds - no signup or email required. (We optimized that process by running through HN before :)

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    Comment #1730451

    Yes! Try http://www.pearanalytics.com - the easiest tool you'll find.

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    Comment #1702953

    OSE will get you up to 10k links if you join the SEOmoz PRO account, whereas YSE only gives you 1,000. I agree with your point, just tell me the root domain linked to me, and then …

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    Comment #1702950

    So wait, does this just take the 1,000 links from YSE, and then compare them again a week/month later and see what the differences are? If so, what do you propose you do with sites…

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    Comment #1621455

    my guess on the pricing jump is because culling keyword suggestions from the Google API get's real expensive (if that's where they are getting them from). Going to get the rankings…

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    Comment #1621439

    that's what Authority Labs built :)

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    Comment #1615543

    Ouch! We're desparately trying to get people from the blog over the product, and we've been testing several tactics, and I'm fairly certain this isn't the one that will stay :)

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    Comment #1615532

    that is an excellent read! Dharmesh Shah posted a synopsis of the book here: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/11097/How-To-Price-Soft...

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    Comment #1615436

    I agree with @mrbird - make the /tour page your landing page, and add a few bullets as well. Maybe even a comparison chart showing you vs Shopify?

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    Comment #1568948

    Interesting. The reason I ask is because I just saw a startup hire a VP of Sales, and they do not have a VP of Marketing. On the other hand, we're trying to get our adoption and en…

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    VP of Sales or VP of Marketing?

    If I'm the CEO of a startup, and I have enough money for only one of these positions (VP of Sales or VP of Marketing), which one do I hire? And does it make sense to combine the tw…