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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

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That's not always reliable. For example, if you do a query on my company's web server IP address, you'll just get the name of our ISP as your result.

Whois on an IP address - you mean rDNS, right? Are you sending mail from this server without fcrdns? Most VPS providers will let you change the rDNS record for the IP.

No, rDNS And whois are different things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois vs reverse DNS, which you are obviously familiar with.

Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned

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Interesting! I made my own guide a while back for my friends, with great success. 1a) Make a "brand" with your middle name Google your first and last name. If you’re like most people on earth, you’re one of many with your particular combination. So how can you rank higher? Never fight a battle you don’t have to. Pick a middle name, real or imaginary. Google your new full name. Example: My name is Kevin Barry. The Goo…

The first result for my full name is a registered sex offender.. Time for a rebrand..

Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned

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I 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.

Thanks for the kind words and for using the product. Right now we are focused purely on individuals (it helps us keep the product simple). It stems from our mission, "a person shouldn't have to pay a lot of money to manage or improve their own search results." While small businesses are easier to monetize, we're happy to just help as many people out as possible, and as long as 2% want the premium features, we're in a…

Yep but helping small business have a positive white hat SEO, could be huge. I myself have been searching your page for small business option, and I am more willing to pay for my startup than for me (and I´ll probably convert the private account).

Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned

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Interesting! I made my own guide a while back for my friends, with great success. 1a) Make a "brand" with your middle name Google your first and last name. If you’re like most people on earth, you’re one of many with your particular combination. So how can you rank higher? Never fight a battle you don’t have to. Pick a middle name, real or imaginary. Google your new full name. Example: My name is Kevin Barry. The Goo…

The first result for my full name is a registered sex offender.. Time for a rebrand..

Alternatively, you could stop preying on children.

Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned

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Interesting! I made my own guide a while back for my friends, with great success. 1a) Make a "brand" with your middle name Google your first and last name. If you’re like most people on earth, you’re one of many with your particular combination. So how can you rank higher? Never fight a battle you don’t have to. Pick a middle name, real or imaginary. Google your new full name. Example: My name is Kevin Barry. The Goo…

The first result for my full name is a registered sex offender.. Time for a rebrand..

My cofounder Pete, was being mistaken for a Drug Dealer and sex offender in college. It was where the inspiration came from

Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned

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While this break-down is very interesting, it all boils down to one thing: they announced an innovative feature that interests a lot of people. Things could have played out differently but the outcome would be the same - lots of signups. If someone from the company is reading: I found out I already have an account (probably from the time it launched), but I can't access it. Login doesn't work and when I try to reset…

Hey, email me at pambron[at]brandyourself[dot]com. I'll figure out why you can't log in

Re: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the kind words and for using the product. Right now we are focused purely on individuals (it helps us keep the product simple). It stems from our mission, "a person shouldn't have to pay a lot of money to manage or improve their own search results." While small businesses are easier to monetize, we're happy to just help as many people out as possible, and as long as 2% want the premium features, we're in a…

Yep but helping small business have a positive white hat SEO, could be huge. I myself have been searching your page for small business option, and I am more willing to pay for my startup than for me (and I´ll probably convert the private account).

I do think there is a big business there, but it's also crowded and more complicated. People don't realize how big the individual market is, and we want to be the ones who own it. But reach out to me, I'd be happy to show you how to use the product, and give you some additional tips for the business front--pambron[at]brandyourself[dot]com
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