Completely unrelated, but the rollover on the logo made me laugh.
Thanks! Though I suspect that almost everyone has been more confused than amused.
How Our Startup Got Featured on CNN
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#22Do they often stay on past 10 minutes?
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#23Do they often stay on past 10 minutes?
Some of them stay on for 30 minutes. They really like that someone is listening to them and trying to solve their problems.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our virtual admin sends this email: Hello: My name is [], and I'm part of the Yipit team. I want to confirm that you've been unsubscribed and will no longer receive emails from us. However, as you may know, we're in the very early stages of our New York based start-up and feedback at this stage is extremely valuable. If you'd be willing to hop on a 10 minute call with one of our team members, we'd gladly offer you a…
Hm... I wonder if this would work as well if someone unsubscribes from a paid service and you give them another month for free. Say $20 of value to them and $0 for you.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our virtual admin sends this email: Hello: My name is [], and I'm part of the Yipit team. I want to confirm that you've been unsubscribed and will no longer receive emails from us. However, as you may know, we're in the very early stages of our New York based start-up and feedback at this stage is extremely valuable. If you'd be willing to hop on a 10 minute call with one of our team members, we'd gladly offer you a…
Have you ever gotten a bad reaction from these emails? Presumably the user had just expressed that they don't want anymore emails and they're getting another one :)
When unsubscribing from an email service most people would expect to get an email saying that you have successfully unsubscribed.
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Have you ever gotten a bad reaction from these emails? Presumably the user had just expressed that they don't want anymore emails and they're getting another one :)
When unsubscribing from an email service most people would expect to get an email saying that you have successfully unsubscribed.
I actually tend to mark that SPAM if I get an email after I've unsubscribed.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our virtual admin sends this email: Hello: My name is [], and I'm part of the Yipit team. I want to confirm that you've been unsubscribed and will no longer receive emails from us. However, as you may know, we're in the very early stages of our New York based start-up and feedback at this stage is extremely valuable. If you'd be willing to hop on a 10 minute call with one of our team members, we'd gladly offer you a…
Hm... I wonder if this would work as well if someone unsubscribes from a paid service and you give them another month for free. Say $20 of value to them and $0 for you.
The only issue here is if the process of subscribing had them to delete their account, which it typically does. Then if you offer them a free month... it gets tricky, because they'd have to start with scratch. Therefore, you've got to catch/offer them something midway through the delete process.
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Hm... I wonder if this would work as well if someone unsubscribes from a paid service and you give them another month for free. Say $20 of value to them and $0 for you.
The only issue here is if the process of subscribing had them to delete their account, which it typically does. Then if you offer them a free month... it gets tricky, because they'd have to start with scratch. Therefore, you've got to catch/offer them something midway through the delete process.
We can actually revive a deleted account.
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#29Congrats! Keep creating your luck by contacting other reporters/media outlets and mention that you were featured on CNN. That instantly legitimizes you. They might be missing something, you know?
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#30Nice change seeing the Django settings.py file scrolling by rather than the typical 'C' or unix command line output. Hopefully, that isn't the real secret key on display though.
That secret key is not the one in our production repository. We overwrite our development settings in other files. Regardless, the Django secret_key isn't used to control systems or access data :-) -Adam Nelson
No, but it's probably used to sign cookies and other requests, which means one could hijack someone else's session.