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yeah upvotes must just be for humiliation's sake.

someone with a little more time than me can probably find a full .pdf I don't have one handy but http://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/d...

data gathering is largely the problem there--so we address it through round about means.

fix turf cutting yet?

wells does same day ACH debits? when'd that happen?

as someone who launched a marketing firm on the basis of copywriting I'm going to give you a spot or two of advice.

it's a service that's one of the first to cut when expenditure budgets get tightened.

the best skill you can develop is the ability to quickly write (and justify) scalable copy.

you'll get a lot more mileage out of just submitting copy corrections to established entities.

I'm not entirely convinced that the pain of dating apps is actually scheduling the date.

all I need to be happy is a bright set of color changing LED bulbs--you're lying to yourself if you think otherwise.

which is a client-centric failure. convincing a small business (such as a kayak rental outfit) why that they ought to invest in targeted search [which would have a favorable effect] gets a lot harder when they're only pitched for the scammier side of things.

that's actually still about mindshare though--that's why radio ads still exist. they catch you on the way to the store.

yes, the ROI centric approach is problematic--but that's client side.

again, that's a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of advertising.

http://www.commissionedwriting.com/CONFESSIONS%20OF%20AN%20A...

1) those are not advertisers, those are direct mailing etc., outfits. I think they're annoying too. I don't use them. If a client suggests using them, I suggest they find a new agency. I suggest you write a note to the CEO and discontinue your association with the brand. they pay attention to that.

2) might I suggest 'site:.edu'

3) it's not a fear, a critical mass of users won't pay for content.

1. we do the best we can to target. you get blanketed by irrelevant ads for a myriad of reasons not limited to: -lazy clients who don't understand their userbase -ads for things you might be interested in being choked out by higher paying spots.

2. that's actually not an advertiser's job--although some of those elements may be part of a campaign. we live in an era where clients demand an ROI, they want a conversion stat, and that's what they base an ad buy on--we agree this is detrimental in the industry. we'd much rather present you with a product over a span of time. we'd much rather show a product to likely consumers.

I'd give you a treatise on the industry, but ogilvy did that:

http://www.commissionedwriting.com/CONFESSIONS%20OF%20AN%20A...

3. that's also a client generated evil.

4. we've been making that sort of connection our entire history. content producers check too, they call it 'knowing your audience.' we're actually in the midst of a massive democratization. instead of five or six market research companies (or one TV research company, or one radio company) we're opening up. you can actually opt-out--that's never happened before.

5. so pay for the service.

not enough users are interested in baring the true cost of a service--hence the dependence on ad revenue.

not even close to 'huge,' although my english syntax is a little rusty.

I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

psah, haven't lived unless you did it on the 1k.

...which is precisely why it worked well for travel and cards...

that was an underpaid job ten years ago when it was called technical writing. barely above minimum in mturk is a sad direction.

is it really a 'fleet' of satellites?

no it's not, it's growable+cloneable.

Absolutely.

If you're starting up you should be questioning the ROI on everything--and trying to figure out what it may be for a VC is part of that.

There's no free l(a)unch.

the impact/influence/experimental marketing world has a few source texts and starting points but by and large we keep that stuff in-house.

people get upset when they realize "ten cool uses for Milk" is an ad for milk...

this.

I would add, I usually give myself twenty four hours between drafting and submission of any seriously emotionally charged communications.

sometimes you don't need it, but you want to be as calm (hah) as possible.

the tech industry would do much better if it would circumvent VC by going B2C...

so green dot bought a bank?

also, I'm fairly confident he's traveling on asylum papers from Ecuador. US passport is irrelevant.

well, if he spends the evening in a Havana hotel he won't be that far from USINT.