Thank you so much, i really needed good copywriting advice, take my 17 Dollars!
How 1 HN post compelled me to leave Intuit and create a new startup for startups
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Re: How 1 HN post compelled me to leave Intuit and create a new startup for startups
#92I suggest (um...plead?) spitting them out as Kindle books, or at least making the pdf less Kindle-hostile. I bought the bundle (great offer, thank you :) and dragged it onto my Kindle. Font tiny, most prominent thing is the bottom bar.
Yeah i bought the bundle too and own a kindle keyboard... if you make a kindle version, please don't make me buy it again...
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#93Thanks for offering the discount to HN - I just purchased the collection and look forward to diving in.
I think it was a fantastic idea to scrap the 300-page book and focus on more bite-sized readings. Tackling a 300-page book can be a lot to ask of a reader, especially if they are spending a lot of their time producing products. A 50-page book makes more sense to me. I can work through 50 pages in a short period of time, feel like I've just learned a complete concept, and start implementing it right away.
Best of luck and great work!
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#94Thanks, just downloaded and it's on my reading list. I already powered through the first few pages of book 1 to check it out and you've made me want to go and rewrite all our copy immediately! Brilliant stuff that will really, really help us. Thank you!
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:) I'll take that award with a great big smile. Thanks!
I may start a single-product(fruit) online store next year. I'm not a webdev though do have programming bkground. Does your copy books have examples or help to write copy for such websites or is it targetted more towards SaaS products? Maybe my Qn itself is unreasonable and maybe same principles apply everywhere, in which case do let me know. Secondly, since my potential usage of this will be sometime in future; when…
Mail pg, he can reset it for you. The email address is not a secret, you can find it easily enough.
Re: How 1 HN post compelled me to leave Intuit and create a new startup for startups
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I may start a single-product(fruit) online store next year. I'm not a webdev though do have programming bkground. Does your copy books have examples or help to write copy for such websites or is it targetted more towards SaaS products? Maybe my Qn itself is unreasonable and maybe same principles apply everywhere, in which case do let me know. Secondly, since my potential usage of this will be sometime in future; when…
Mail pg, he can reset it for you. The email address is not a secret, you can find it easily enough.
I've searched everywhere: here, YC, TC, his personal site - didn't find anywhere. Or maybe my GoogleFoo is just failing me today. Mind sending me on my throwaway ID: forwebsites AT gmail
throwaway because I'm just too embarrassed to expose my stupidity
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#97What's very cool about this is that the page itself is actually a sample that will sell you on the book. Best marketing of the year award. Really awesome.
:) I'll take that award with a great big smile. Thanks!
Bought this yesterday, only half way through the first book, but wow - awesome stuff!
An epub version would be great though, if that would be possible?
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#98Love it, great read - only half way through the first book, but so much useful stuff!
Any chance of an epub version though? Would then be easier to read on my phone and ebook reader.
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Wow, jonnathanson, you couldn't be more spot-on! That's unfortunately how I see it ---- the Fortune 500 world forgets that copy can have a huge impact on sales/signups. (On the other hand, Groupon takes writing very seriously... but I haven't heard that they pay very well; I'd be interested to hear how they compensate writers.) You should do a post on the subject!
The company I'd like to know about is Woot.com; they need to pay their writers by the truckload. I hit that site every day.
The woot "we got acquired" letter[1] was hilarious.
[1] http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=13390
shortest footnote marker-to-footnote distance ever?