A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 8, 2011
But we did it, it was a blast, and you can listen to it in my podcast ( iTunes , or enclosed in the usual RSS feed , or raw mp3 ). Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Why listen? Especially if you don’t usually listen to podcasts?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MAY 9, 2011
How many RSS subscribers or Twitter followers do I need before I decide it’s OK to rail against asinine offers like that email, or even gently disagree with luminaries who I do, in fact, respect? Maybe you’ll see that “RSS subscribers&# is not the measure of the quality of your thoughts. It’s nothing.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 27, 2012
Isn’t fame and glory and RSS subscribers enough? I had somewhat of an epiphany after reading this article by Joel Spolsky about segmentation (seriously, this is probably one of the top ten posts about sales on the web), and realized that this complex-sounding term actually covered a very familiar concept. Why charge at all ?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 22, 2011
I can lecture you about how blogging success is about content and time rather than looks and plugins , but I still wrote my own plugin to manage exactly how the “retweet&# link behaves in the RSS feed. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Tweet. -->.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 15, 2010
It's most important for new readers who haven't seen old posts — especially anything older than the 10-15 posts displayed by your RSS reader when you first subscribe. Generates a message near the top of the page suggesting that you subscribe by RSS or email, tuned to the source of the traffic (e.g. Nice-to-haves: WP Greet Box.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 14, 2014
Feedburner said there were 50 RSS subscribers, but at least 40 of them were directories or scrapers. 2,700 days ago, and 40,000 subscribers ago, I published my 13th blog post. It was: “ You’re a real company when… ” An existential question of when a startup becomes “real.”
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Introduced a month ago as an event in Austin, this time we moved this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3. Why listen? Tweet. -->.
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