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Comment by socalnate1 | Hacker News Reader

I wish the blog had "fixed" each of the poor examples to show what they would have done.

And leave money on the table?

If it were my blog, I would have included a link to "Pay me to show you what I would have done differently", or some other equally organic and not-too-weasely way of selling exactly that service: Reporting on best and worst examples is one thing, relatively LHF, but working with a company to improve is something they should be rewarded for!

Not to mention that doing so may require a company to completely overhaul sales and marketing. Or culture. Or both.

LHF: Low hanging fruit, easily obtainable item.

EDIT: PCCAMPBELL was replying at the same time as me. I like their reply.

Ha! Well, I didn't want to be completely blatant. A lot of our content tells you how to solve the problem, but yes - we do have software and tech services to help you. Work with folks like New Relic, Insightly, Wistia, etc.

Good point. We touched on it a bit at least in concept, but we'll do better in the future about being more inclusive of the solution (just a lot of content for one post). Maybe pick one or two and breakdown and then build up a solution?

The ebook linked from the page has a lot on the right stuff to do.

Here's a little "growth hack" tip for you. Change this:

> As always though, if you need any help, even just a sounding board to chat things through with, we’re here to help.

To this:

> So what's the solution for all of these? We'll be following up in later blog posts, so <a>sign up for our newsletter</a>. Want the answers now? <a>Buy our book!</a> We cover all of these potential traps and more.

Also, spelling error: You’re making it harder to upsell me On the eight day Should be eighth.

Nice blog.

Ha. Touche.

Fixed the spelling error and added something a bit better in.

Thanks!

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