Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2023

A popular default of most small business owners and entrepreneurs is to work, work, and overwork, but that’s not a good habit for your mind or body. Before I leave the house for the office I’ve already accomplished a few things that feed my soul, and that positions me to feel more at ease throughout the day. The post You First.

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Brandanew

JUNE 26, 2015

But just like every other thing that comes with no restrictions, the platform is often misused for purposes that leave us at our wit’s end. Twitter has been around for some time now, and still there aren’t many who understand how to use it effectively. Retaining the default user image (boring!). ps: original egg via Flickr.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

07:44] Does feeding language models lead to more authentic outputs? [10:36] 10:36] Talk about how tools like Market Muse are perfecting AI as a tool [14:58] How do you overcome the shortcomings of AI as an unideal substitute for expertise when using search engines? [23:07] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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www.smashingmagazine.com

MAY 5, 2011

Copying Billing and Shipping Address Information with jQuery Copy Form Input Data to Another Input Field with jQuery Don’t Check the Newsletter Option by Default. Reply 15 0 Andy May 5th, 2011 7:00 am Fantastic post on some really great techniques! I’ll definitely be using this soon. Chances are, it will work.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

This post is part of my ongoing series Twitter 101 for all those that still “don’t get” Twitter. In an earlier post I spoke about the asymmetric nature of Twitter vs. Facebook. The default setting and behavior on Facebook has been “private” and therefore you need permission to follow my status updates.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

If there is one thing you take away from it post I hope it is the importance in investing in yourself / your education / your ongoing awesomeness. Remember that, at least for the rest of this post. In the last month data was copied off one of my posts 5,616 times, with most of it being content and some of it images. You matter.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Email Posts Get Connected Subscribe to our Feed Join our Google Group Discussion Follow @StartupBmore on Twitter Find us on Facebook Join our Mailing List News Advice Profiles Events Startup Breakfast + Workshop Startup 101 New? Be sure to read Dave’s post for other ideas and further elaboration. Start here.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Figure out who the customer is, feeding into accurate customer personas. Find out how they shop (comparison to competitors, which benefits they seek, what words they use, etc). If not, tell us how we can improve.”. Above all, you want to avoid the temptation to default to that bias-ridden comfort zone.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Instead, your north star metric should be a variable that feeds into revenue. Defaulting to revenue. Do make sure your team and individual metrics feed into your north star. In this instance, the OMTM feeds into the company’s NSM. North star metrics must lead to revenue. North star metrics must reflect customer value.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 13, 2014

Once upon a time, we exercised unchecked authority over our identities, verbally air-brushing our resumes into highly idealized portraits of ourselves, carefully vetting the references we chose to vouch for us. Who comments on our Medium posts? Who shows up on LinkedIn as a 1 degree connection? I had a network portrait of him.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Posted on May 31, 2012. Consider this blog post (we’ll walk it back to email in a second). It is sandwiched somewhere in the middle of 30 other posts, all presented with the same visual weight. It is sandwiched somewhere in the middle of 30 other posts, all presented with the same visual weight. Greatest Hits.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Brennan Dunn (06:19): I think for me, and, and what I typically recommend, a lot of people do, especially those of us who are trying to do kind of email first, where right. I think having that interplay back and forth is something that most of us should be doing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

So Petra, thanks for joining us. How is perfection toxins, what’s that costing us? Maybe it’s a little bit highlighted a little bit, while our brain knows that and for females especially, we see the pictures going across out feed, with that million Instagram followers. Petra Kolber: Oh my pleasure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

As a self-proclaimed science nerd since childhood--he even wrote a paper about Dr. Anthony Fauci in high school--Sam has a deep-seated belief in the power of science to see us through this difficult time and into a more stable future. Many of you who read my podcast launch post requested full transcripts as well.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Posted on January 31, 2013. Don’t skip this post because you’re not a Rails developer. This has been covered in more detail by security researchers, in posts such as here and here. So far this has included: Rails, for programmer convenience, used YAML to implement JSON deserialization. Greatest Hits.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2016

You can use segmentation in post-test analysis to find out if certain variations had higher impact areas on certain segments, or you can use less efficient means (opinions and guesses). Default content would then be the winner for the non-purchaser segment (the comparable segment). Serve all the offers to everyone.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post. Now to the case studies….

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dallasbass.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Yesterday, I came across a blog post which caught me off guard. The title of the post is “ 5 Reasons Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It ” and surprisingly, it wasn’t satire. I disagree with all points the original post made and here is why. Here is the deal, mobile bandwidth is expensive in the US.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! – [link]. – [link].

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

This post will focus on the second point, because a usable form will naturally contribute to the overall usability of the website, hence the first aspect. Register with us” would have been more helpful. Smart defaults Use smart defaults to make the user’s completion of the form faster and more accurate. CSS , CSS3.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

The automated tooling that Netflix has developed lets us quickly deploy large scale Cassandra clusters, in this case a few clicks on a web page and about an hour to go from nothing to a very large Cassandra cluster consisting of 288 medium sized instances, with 96 instances in each of three EC2 availability zones in the US-East region.

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designshack.co.uk

JUNE 8, 2011

Today we’ll take a look at 20 attractive and functional forms to see if we can find any useful ideas that you can apply the next time you’re building a sign up form. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter to stay up on recent content. Show Us Yours! Like the article?

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Mistake #2: Using the Default Match Type Next, enter your term and hit “search.&# “Oh man, 27,100 people per month search for antidisestablishmentarianism. Check out my book Like this post? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.” We’ll talk about the implications of what vertical market you’re entering in the next few posts.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

This post is all about that. Here is a summary of the eight incredible recommendations in this post: #1. Use Table View Options (Comparison, Pivots, In-line Filters) – Faster Initial Insights. #4. Pledge to shift away from a one-size-fits-all data puke, and use your web analytics tool to create a customized dashboard.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

way of identify actionable insights is on display in pretty much every single blog post I write. One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many tools include some default segments you can apply to any report you are looking at.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Posted on August 13, 2012. You could even keep the actual billing model entirely intact: make the plans an abstraction over sensible defaults picked for the old billing model, and have the Spreadsheet Samurai page somewhere where power users and the sales team can find it.). Excellent post. Our signups stay with us longer.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Aaaaah, manual work…this is what computers are supposed to save us from! In essence, this approach does not scale infinitely, which tends to be the kind of scaling that developers default to (this includes me). Check out my book Like this post?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I was reflecting on that recently and thought it was incredible that in all my years of writing this blog I have never written a blog post, not one single one (!!), My goal is to give you a list of tools that I use in my everyday life as a practitioner (you'll see many of them implemented on this blog). Well that ends today.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Posted by Philippe Botteri. It seems to us like there is another critical rule that can not be ignored – “Get out of the way!” Save Asia for post-IPO. at 11:09 AM. 16 comments: BdH.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. [link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Monday edit : Skip my post and read this one instead. david (Follow us at https://twitter.com/expensify ). Saturday edit : Wow, this post has hit quite a nerve. Anyway, I was going to leave all this to blow over before making any comments in a follow-up post next Friday. Like this: Like 14 bloggers like this post.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Read the previous Ardent post for context.) Picture the scene: the entire company (all 15 of us) are present. Some of us had worked together in previous companies; some of us had just started working together for the first time. Lessons learned: Corporate culture is either set by fiat, by default, or by consensus.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 7, 2017

To give you a sense of the depth and breadth of ideas I’ll cover today, here are the sections in this post: + The Promise of Marketing Utopia. + Win Big: Stop Posting Content for Organic Reach On Social Channels. + If you were a travel company, meaningful would now translate into helping feed wanderlust. They keep posting.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

" The second question was never answered either, but because all businesses know is how to pimp that became their default strategy. In this post let's look at each Social Network, see what B2B and B2C brands are doing there today, from that draw lessons as to 1. The post is conveniently broken up into these sections: 1.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

“The US six year or so experiment.;” As a member you agree to use your real name when participating in the Journal Community). Contact Us. Subscriber Agreement & Terms of Use. CODE=COMPANY SYMBOL=AMZN CODE=COMPANY SYMBOL=GOOG CODE=COMPANY SYMBOL=MSFT CODE=COMPANY SYMBOL=NOK1V.HE 358 Recommendations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In mid-March, as the coronavirus was sweeping through Asia and Europe, Tomas Pueyo published a piece on Medium titled "The Hammer and the Dance: What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like if Leaders Buy Us Time." Eric Ries : This has been a pretty stressful time for all of us. Just tell us about how you're doing. How's your family?

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