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We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
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Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
#22Good work, man. Takeaway for me is to make the most of Google Analytics' conversion tracking features.
Yea absolutely. We track everything through our own internal system and through analytics. We want to know where our best users come from. Which sources get people to sign up, which sources bring the most active people, and which sources lead to the most subscriptions. It helps you focus your marketing/PR efforts.
I'm interested to see how HN does for you. The front page in my experience drives an order of magnitude less traffic than you saw from Mashable, which is still a nice bump. Let us know how we convert, eh? :-)
Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
#23http://patrickambron.brandyourself.com/ > Co-Founder & CEO at BrandYourself.com > January 2009 - January 2000 Branding fail
Good catch, updated now! So what did you think of the article, was it useful to you?
What a classy response to a not so classy move. Patrick, you get my vote for class president.
Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
#24Awesome piece. It's rare that a startup dives this deep into the details. You deserve the 1000+ signups you'll score from a HackerNews front page ;-)
Hey thanks man! I just happen to really enjoy data--and it's paid off.
I've also been getting some great feedback from the HN crowd, so these are great signups :)
Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
#25How much better are your results in boosting visibility as compared to for example getting myname.com and linking to myname.com from all social media profiles?
Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
#26I love this service, was in the early signup group and within a month controlled my first 10 results.
Keep expecting a pivot to small biz though and hope that's in the plans, seems like a much easier group to monetize.
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#27"Error establishing a database connection" Is this a joke?
I thought it was too :D
http://cl.ly/0a2r3l2b331l0B1n141U
Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
#28How are they determining what companies are googling you? Do they attempt to create a top ranked page about you, and then monitor IP addresses visiting it, and match that to some db that maps company to IP address?
@pdx yea you nailed it. Most of our users end building a BrandYourself Profile, which is a simple (but pretty) profile that's really well structured around your name, so it generally ranks on your first page. From there we can use the IP addresses of visitors to determine who they are We could always tell you when someone found that profile and where they came from (they came from FB, or they came from Google after G…
Haven't tried this, but can't just do a whois query for the IP address?
Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
#29I really like your product, but the only issue I had was when I was boosting my links. After every step in the boosting process I was asked to share that step with my Social Network, while that may help my SEO it became more of a nuisance. I would like to be asked only after completing all of the boosting steps. Other than that keep up the great work!
Just to be clear: You were asked to share your link after every step in the boosting process?? It should just be your final boost step, which you can choose to do or not. Looking into this now
I just tried to recreate and could not.
Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
#30Hey Patrick, I don't see the link to the article. Did I miss something? Can you please resend, I am very curious. Thanks!