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Recently learned that Pilates is called what it is because it was invented by Joe Pilates
I never knew that. Reminds me of the inventor of the backflip, John Backflip: https://theyardstickagency.co.uk/blog/the-strange-but-true-s...
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Welcome to promoting your product baby. No one cares if it's fake or not except the little voice in your head. If you can post fake messages today that promote your product and will start getting you users, why wait for real users to provide real testimonials that align with what you want to communicate to do the same thing 3 months from now? Of course you want to seek out real testimonials from satisfied customers a…
For me it’s just that I just don’t want to lie to make money. Commercials are on their face a work of fiction unless stated otherwise — for customer testimonials in commercials that are fake (in the US anyway) there has to be text saying as much. Because otherwise they’d be lying…
They are a staged conversation with a contact named "Speedometer FAQ" - not pretending like it's with a real person, or real customer testimonials.
If it makes you feel better, you could put "simulated text messages" at the bottom of such images.
As a solo/indie dev who's currently early in building a product, I've been keeping a journal of "ideas" for content in a txt file in the codebase as I hate context switching and want to build this up before I get to it. Here's what I've done: - At the top of the file I've listed my audience, 3 personas - My content has to be useful to one of those - If I see an interesting post/take on social media I hold the link an…
As a solo/indie dev who's currently early in building a product, I've been keeping a journal of "ideas" for content in a txt file in the codebase as I hate context switching and want to build this up before I get to it. Here's what I've done: - At the top of the file I've listed my audience, 3 personas - My content has to be useful to one of those - If I see an interesting post/take on social media I hold the link an…
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Welcome to promoting your product baby. No one cares if it's fake or not except the little voice in your head. If you can post fake messages today that promote your product and will start getting you users, why wait for real users to provide real testimonials that align with what you want to communicate to do the same thing 3 months from now? Of course you want to seek out real testimonials from satisfied customers a…
For me it’s just that I just don’t want to lie to make money. Commercials are on their face a work of fiction unless stated otherwise — for customer testimonials in commercials that are fake (in the US anyway) there has to be text saying as much. Because otherwise they’d be lying…
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Marketing is a real job in the same way both pharmacists and drug dealers are both real jobs. Its really easy for marketing to go from providing a useful product to using dark patterns like rage bait to peddle the equivalent of drugs to the masses. Marketing gets a bad name for a reason.
I share your aversion to modern marketing tactics, but by your logic, programmers that develop the addictive social media algorithms are the meth cooks. Everyone is complicit. Modern day "tech bros" get a significantly worse rep than marketing folks these days. No use in participating in this blame game.
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> focused on stuff like the Therac-25 case study, but I could easily see a more modern version of the course A good example of bad that can happen but damn is that just plain lazy. More recent examples are surely more relevant and would generated more discussion.
For someone just learning about the Therac-25 incident, what more recent cases would've worked better to foster discussion that can also be read about?
But off the top of my head - Facebook and the genocide in Myanmar. The various collosal data breaches that usually have token punishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches
Mass surveillance and face identification by private companies for law enforcement eg https://www.auror.co/role/loss-prevention You can't appeal it and they don't respond to requests for your records (like a government department would).
Social media and addiction to it. How this should be managed with vulnerable groups, eg children?
I'm sure there are numerous better examples out there.
As a solo/indie dev who's currently early in building a product, I've been keeping a journal of "ideas" for content in a txt file in the codebase as I hate context switching and want to build this up before I get to it. Here's what I've done: - At the top of the file I've listed my audience, 3 personas - My content has to be useful to one of those - If I see an interesting post/take on social media I hold the link an…
Not quite the same thing, but a perspective to be aware of...
For example, I used to be on a semi-private forum, where some people would lurk without participating, and then seemed to "arbitrage" ideas from there, to blog and social media posts, to promote their brand.
Ideas generally should be shared, and I wouldn't say that this "arbitrage" behavior is wrong, but it can sometimes seem a bit like leeching off a group without contributing.
I suppose this is more noticeable in smaller groups that are closer to "communities". Maybe no one would care if it's just more conventional social media posts where there's no community, and most people are just playing their own promotion games.
(For example, probably no one cares if someone else also forwards around the same LinkedIn inspirational leadership image post, which they themselves took from someone else. Because usually no one at all cares about those, not even the sender.)
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I didn't know who he is and still found this blog post really interesting because the real topic is about marketing your app when you're a software developer.
it read to me more as a marketing piece itself than as a piece about marketing.
You might not appreciate the topic, but this is definitely not an ad, just honest learning and sharing about a difficult part of the entrepreneur job.
I've always struggled to find the right balance as a solo/indie dev. However, recently I decided to try something I'm calling the SaaS Schedule Sandwich. Each month is split into four weeks: - Week 1: Build - Week 2: Market - Week 3: Build - Week 4: Video Journal And so far it's kept me honest and not made me go live in a cave and code for a year. I actually released the first video journal last week for our new prod…