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Re:The declining profitability of Google Adwords on Monday May 27, 2013 @11:39AM (#5775002)
Standard economics. As you start penetrating potential audience its going to get saturated after some point until you reach all of the audience. As impressions to get one more click are needed more, google needs to exhaust their inventory more. Apparently CTR is going to degrade, and google will start increasing marginal cost per click. Cost per click is curve is often going to be marginal cost curve, where maximum profitability is at lowest point on the curve. Its not about profitability of google adwords but the profitability of the media you're bidding for. When saturated you can always expand your potential market (audience) by adding more keywords/placements.
Re:Show HN: Turn Your Blog Into a Downloadable Ebook on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @04:16AM (#4965566)
I tried logging in -- persona sent me email of confirmation, when clicked it redirected to ebookglue which alerted 'login attempt failed'. you might want to look into that.
Re:Where is hacker news for business? on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @04:08AM (#4965556)
yes, there are lots of publications that write quality articles but don't have place to weight them based on community opinions. every article has comments, but those wouldn't be in order of priority of reading. also business news are big enough so that every publication eventually covers it, what remains is the community insights about the news. that is why I like hn -- because of community opinions than content that is posted.
Re:Where is hacker news for business? on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @04:03AM (#4965541)
Or can it be that they never gathered as community, like hn?

Where is hacker news for business?

Posted by evolution on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @02:24AM
from the self-post dept.

I've been looking for source like hacker news for business related news. I've been on /r/business and /r/economics but wanted to check with hn community what are our favorite choices.thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: How to conduct interviews to identify hackers? on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @04:16AM (#3882976)
yes, thank you for the idea. Although I'm not quite sure undergraduate students here contribute much to the open source projects.

Ask HN: How to conduct interviews to identify hackers?

Posted by evolution on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @03:42AM
from the ask-hn dept.

HN,I'm walking to interview people for internship from renowned technical institute here in India. What are the approaches I should take in interviewing to identify their hacker quotient?To clarify, the internship will be into technical -- identification and implementation of user behavior analysis, statistics and pattern algorithms.

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Ask HN: What is best way to send bulk emails to marketing lists?

Posted by evolution on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @06:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hello HN!We're developing lead management software and from feedback of early customers, sending emails to marketing lists is considered as critical requirement. They gather email database at different sources like tradeshow, conferences or advertising campaigns to create marketing lists.Now there are lot of options available to send transactional emails to subscription lists -- mailchimp,...

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Re:Show HN: Keep track of earning expenses better than excel sheets on Thursday December 01, 2011 @09:17AM (#3299783)
worthless is still rude
Re:App vs. Business on Thursday November 24, 2011 @03:23PM (#3275325)
building app has started to become commodity, most of these are built over the weekend and left after that. What we need to understand is that user acquisition and retention are the most critical factors of the startups in this era. I don't want to go into negative but every hacker knows that we should build something that solves pain for the users and try to monetize that. And every weekend project submitted here seems to be solving some kind of problem at least for that particular niche market. But to grow such apps into business one needs to work on user acquisition, retention, building credibility and customer loyalty which can not be commoditized. These are completely different aspects of business than writing code and should be taken as serious and aggressive as writing code.
Re:Don't. Waste. Time. on Sunday November 20, 2011 @02:40PM (#3258820)
I think lean methodology goes best with this. What matters in initial stages is working prototype, validation and then MVP. Most of the initial time is supposed to be dedicated to this than spending it with operations.
Re:http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to on Sunday November 20, 2011 @01:08AM (#3257429)
is it allowed by google to parse search result page?
Re:Vidyard’s (YC S11) video service just one-upped every competitor on Thursday November 17, 2011 @02:44PM (#3248943)
Really needed service. This can be extended to use video as landing page where video will say all and also include call to action.
Re:Official Release of Google+ Pages on Monday November 07, 2011 @02:29PM (#3207739)
Can you tell what manipulations are needed exactly to make it work?
Re:Official Release of Google+ Pages on Monday November 07, 2011 @02:24PM (#3207723)
really? Mean, does it allow to create new page?
Re:Introducing Asana: The Modern Way to Work Together on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @04:48PM (#3188858)
Very intuitive interface. You might want to help increase speed adding/editing tasks by providing many possible ways of adding due dates. See todoist, they've done it very nicely.
Re:Google Analytics blog integrates Mixpanel analytics on Saturday October 08, 2011 @06:30AM (#3087619)
Is there any possible way where I can combine both analytics and mixpanel data to run complex reports?

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