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Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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Oh man, am I glad that page is cached now. (Generating it from a clean memcached takes 30 seconds.)

Not sure why you guys are suddenly interested today, because its been up for quite some time now, but if you've got questions hit me.

P.S. I hate summer.

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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post #2

Oh man, am I glad that page is cached now. (Generating it from a clean memcached takes 30 seconds.) Not sure why you guys are suddenly interested today, because its been up for quite some time now, but if you've got questions hit me. P.S. I hate summer.

I don't really understand what one does with a Bingo Card created by this software. Is this an American teaching method that's common?

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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post #2

Oh man, am I glad that page is cached now. (Generating it from a clean memcached takes 30 seconds.) Not sure why you guys are suddenly interested today, because its been up for quite some time now, but if you've got questions hit me. P.S. I hate summer.

Was just browsing it and since it had so much juice, I thought HN might be interested :)

By the way, people, do check out other pages in the sidebar. The link showing expenses is especially interesting.

@patio11: don't you have conversion stats on this page? I see it has free sign ups and total revenue, month-wise. But having month-wise conversion stats (across the funnel) will be interesting.

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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post #3
post #2

Oh man, am I glad that page is cached now. (Generating it from a clean memcached takes 30 seconds.) Not sure why you guys are suddenly interested today, because its been up for quite some time now, but if you've got questions hit me. P.S. I hate summer.

I don't really understand what one does with a Bingo Card created by this software. Is this an American teaching method that's common?

Just another way keeping students entertained while teaching them something.

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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post #3
post #2

Oh man, am I glad that page is cached now. (Generating it from a clean memcached takes 30 seconds.) Not sure why you guys are suddenly interested today, because its been up for quite some time now, but if you've got questions hit me. P.S. I hate summer.

I don't really understand what one does with a Bingo Card created by this software. Is this an American teaching method that's common?

Let's say you're doing, I don't know, a lesson on cellular biology. After wrapping it up, on Friday afternoon, you want to play a fun game which still has some educational content. So you print out one Parts of A Cell bingo card for each student in your class and explain how bingo works (or not, because they've almost certainly played before).

Then start calling things like "This center of the cell is where the chromosomes are stored". Kids mark "nucleus" on their bingo card. Repeat a few times -- somebody wins, the rest of the class comes close to winning (this is the diabolically brilliant thing about bingo), everybody is happy and most don't realize they've just reviewed some vocabulary.

Yes, this is a quite common activity in America. You'll find it in almost any book of teacher activities from elementary school through high school.

Bingo has a few features which make it particularly good from the teacher's perspective, incidentally. It scales to any number of kids with one teacher (not true of all games), it performs excellent crowd control since all students are forced to proceed at the same pace (very not true of all games), it doesn't pit students directly against one another (many American teachers do not believe that is wise), it is very difficult to be bad at bingo (in a way it is not difficult to be bad at e.g. spelling bees), there is an element of luck involved so the winner will almost certainly not be the strongest student in the class (some teachers believe this is wise), etc etc.

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

#7
Repost of repost of repost :)

Every now or then another URL of the Bingo Crad Creator sales.

But always interesting and nice to see some people sharing such detailed information on their business.

Thanks to the creator.

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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post #2

Oh man, am I glad that page is cached now. (Generating it from a clean memcached takes 30 seconds.) Not sure why you guys are suddenly interested today, because its been up for quite some time now, but if you've got questions hit me. P.S. I hate summer.

Was just browsing it and since it had so much juice, I thought HN might be interested :) By the way, people, do check out other pages in the sidebar. The link showing expenses is especially interesting. @patio11: don't you have conversion stats on this page? I see it has free sign ups and total revenue, month-wise. But having month-wise conversion stats (across the funnel) will be interesting.

Consolidated conversion rate is a poor metric because it doesn't help me make decisions. If it goes up, is that because of something I did on-page, or is that because of something that one of my competitors did, or is that because of market seasonality, or is it because of a change in the Google algorithms which sent a different mix of people to me? I don't know, so looking at it tells me nothing.

See also: consolidated bounce rate.

The only place I look at conversion rates these days is in the context of either two comparable traffic sources (like two AdWords creatives) or across an A/B test.

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