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Re: This is how you hustle

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Post by aninhumer »

jbsimpson wrote: post #31
noobermin wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope the OP does realize that. Perhaps it's just the thought to put out a bot that scans twitter and sends such automated emails? The bot may take active effort to script, so there is at least some "hustling" going on.

It wasn't, I emailed him back right away and we ended up exchanging multiple emails in a very brief period of time. Either that or chat bots are smarter than most humans these days.

Or the initial email was sent by a bot, but the follow-up was human?

Re: This is how you hustle

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Post by mustafabisic »

peopleshost wrote: post #35

Hello Everyone, Instead of responding to comments individually I wanted to make one comment (and one comment only) to the responses to this article. This is ONE of many strategies PeoplesHost employs to acquire customers. To address some questions or concerns others have mentioned in the comments made earlier: - The blog post is authentic. Jack is someone we reached out to earlier today. He responded by complimenting…

You summed it all up. Nice work.

Re: This is how you hustle

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Post by aplummer »

Moru wrote: post #38
bad_user wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't want businesses I have no involvement with contacting me out of the blue. It's not quite spam... Unsolicited email from parties you have no involvement with is spam by definition. And note to spammers and marketers on HN, I know I'm abusing my spam filters, but if I see emails from parties I don't recognize because " I subscribed for updates to one of their partners " (or some other bullshit explanation lik…

The easiest way of killing spam is to hit the spam-button in Thunderbird. Spam is always spam and I have more fun things to do than find some unsubscribe button. That will only mark my email as active and give a better price when selling it further.

You can create a filter for the word "unsubscribe" if you're feeling dangerous

Re: This is how you hustle

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Post by jbsimpson »

bradleyprice wrote: post #14
ejcx wrote: post #12

In my opinion, this is not hustling but ambulance chasing. Every tech company is going to have bad operational issue days. Going at your competitors customers regularly when your competitors have bad days will net you more negative reactions than positive, in my opinion.

My reaction entirely. I wouldn't want to build my business up on these types of customers, because as quick as they left X and came to you, they'll leave you as well. Not to say that you shouldn't do your best to make sure your customers are always able to continue business, but like you said, everyone has their bad days. I'd choose to have loyal customers that aren't jumping on social media at the drop of a hat and…

To be honest, the hosting provider I use is so cheap I don't think there was too much loyalty to begin with.

Re: This is how you hustle

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Post by jbsimpson »

aninhumer wrote: post #41
jbsimpson wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't, I emailed him back right away and we ended up exchanging multiple emails in a very brief period of time. Either that or chat bots are smarter than most humans these days.

Or the initial email was sent by a bot, but the follow-up was human?

I'm really used to getting those bot emails by now, the personal greeting (left out of my post for brevity), speed of getting back to me, and conversation I had with the fellow after made it fairly clear it wasn't a mass spammed message.

Re: This is how you hustle

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Post by jbsimpson »

3131s wrote: post #39
jbsimpson wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you tell me how I can get people to pay me to write articles on my personal blog? So far I've mainly written about my interests in machine learning and science, but as a graduate researcher an extra source of income would be great /s

I should have clarified that I looked around your blog and based on the other in-depth content there, I figured it was a genuine post. It was just that my first impression was that this might be native advertising -- which says more about how the rest of the internet is nowaways as opposed to anything about your writing style or blog content.

Oh I see, that's probably fair enough - I did toy with the idea of leaving a message at the end clarifying that I had received no money for writing it, but ended up leaving it out.

I didn't edit the names out when they were mentioned in the email but I did try to avoid gratuitous references to them in my main content.

Re: This is how you hustle

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Post by jbsimpson »

peopleshost wrote: post #35

Hello Everyone, Instead of responding to comments individually I wanted to make one comment (and one comment only) to the responses to this article. This is ONE of many strategies PeoplesHost employs to acquire customers. To address some questions or concerns others have mentioned in the comments made earlier: - The blog post is authentic. Jack is someone we reached out to earlier today. He responded by complimenting…

Thanks for commenting and clarifying things :)

Re: This is how you hustle

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Post by davidgerard »

I don't see how this does anything other than encourage spamming. I make a point of marking this sort of email directly as spam, and I would certainly hope others do too - it needs to be discouraged.

Re: This is how you hustle

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Post by davidgerard »

Moru wrote: post #38
bad_user wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't want businesses I have no involvement with contacting me out of the blue. It's not quite spam... Unsolicited email from parties you have no involvement with is spam by definition. And note to spammers and marketers on HN, I know I'm abusing my spam filters, but if I see emails from parties I don't recognize because " I subscribed for updates to one of their partners " (or some other bullshit explanation lik…

The easiest way of killing spam is to hit the spam-button in Thunderbird. Spam is always spam and I have more fun things to do than find some unsubscribe button. That will only mark my email as active and give a better price when selling it further.

It's even more fun doing it in GMail, because if enough other people do it then spam is more likely to be widely dealt with in the manner it deserves.
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