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creativeone··on Ask HN: How to kickstart a product idea?
Maybe Kickstarter would be the next step for you. You'll need a nice designer and maybe even a video. But if you get traction you can go about recruiting the necessary parts to make this a reality.
creativeone··on Who are the web app developers out there?
Very nice thanks. Will take a look.
creativeone··on Why is my adwords bounce rate almost 100%
Landing page relevance. It looks great, but its not obviously relevant. If one of the keywords you are bidding on is: lawn care bids, for example, then you should display that phrase somewhere in the middle of the site, instead of : "Companies want your business Let them compete for it " Say: "Get cheap lawn care bids. Complete your landscaping for less! Post a job now to get the lowest priced bids in town from professionals."
creativeone··on Is there any easy way to invest in startups?
I'm actually outside of America ATM, so I havent noticed.
creativeone··on Ask HN: Anybody need a Contract Management System? I built one but...
I just sent my first contract via Right Signature. I work for a small business of around 15 people and growing. Would your tool be relevant to me?
creativeone··on Ask HN: Picking your next project - How do you test ideas?
How do they refuse to let you run adwords for them? What is their reason?
creativeone··on Ask HN: Groupon for oil changes?
I'd pay $5000 to see that idea happen. 50/50 ownership with the coder/designer. And i'll pay for PPC to market it.
creativeone··on Ask HN: Any specific marketing tips for an e-commerce startup?
I need some advice on how to promote an e-commerce startup both online and offline profitably. (FTFY)

In my business (PPC), we speak in terms of two main metrics: market demand (measured by potential revenue), and cost per acquisition. We can take just about any company that has a large enough market demand, and run a profitable campaign for them. The first month or two you should have a reasonable budget to allow for testing of the market and optimization, and from then on it is smoother sailing with reducing conversion costs.

To compete in PPC, you should have a pro work on it every day. I really recommend outsourcing it if you dont have the time or knowledge. Costs in India are probably much cheaper; around here it would run you 12% in management fees (with a $1500-$2000 monthly minimum fee).

If you think your business is worthy of targeting a large market, I guarantee you that you can run a successful PPC campaign, while spending many thousands of dollars a month in ads.

creativeone··on The first photos of Tesla’s electric SUV the Model X
For anyone doubting that Tesla can hit the mass market because they arent making competitors to the Camry or Civic: they have just made a wonderful looking competitor to BMW's X-line, Lexus' RX, and etc. Way to go.
creativeone··on Ask HN: How to not get burned with Adwords and PPC?
Can you explain more about your app?
creativeone··on Ask HN: How to not get burned with Adwords and PPC?
I made an edit and my text chart got ruined!
creativeone··on Ask HN: How to not get burned with Adwords and PPC?
If you have the time to review your accounts performance on a daily basis, do not do automatic bidding.

Competition is very high for website hosting, so what you'll need to do is create a long tail of keywords with the keyword tool.

AdWords can be very bloody, but it is very important at the beginning to get good data on your ads and keywords. Make sure your conversion codes are working too. You'll have a big spend in the beginning because you dont have a good Quality Score. Its a game of patience, and don't go broke! But keep in mind for the first few weeks your cost per acquisition will probably be twice as high as it will be after that.

Your cost per day chart should look something like this at the start. -- - - -- -- --- -- ---- --- -- --- ---- ------

creativeone··on All Adsense are now anti-SOPA
This is probably the right answer.
creativeone··on Tell HN: Today's lesson in how NOT to get a technical co-founder
Is that a sufficient requirement? I wouldnt ask a technical co-founder to join if I wasnt prepared to offer him at least 50%.
creativeone··on How many HNers have dabbled in arbitrage?
Did you change the company's name/logo as well?

Can you elaborate please?

creativeone··on Ask HN: Death by design, poor on-boarding or do we just smell?
have you tried google adwords?
creativeone··on Ask HN: How to efficiently update passwords for a 36+ accounts
No small companies, big 3, google, yahoo, bing.
creativeone··on Ask HN: How to efficiently update passwords for a 36+ accounts
How would you deal with captcha? Could we avoid that altogether? Or make it the only action on the user's part is to enter the captchas?
creativeone··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)
Podium Advertising Ltd. is hiring a web developer in Tel Aviv. We have a leading Google Adwords optimizing technology that we will be releasing to the public in 2012. Our technology enables large online stores to bring their inventory to Google Adwords, automatically updated their ads, create ads dynamically, and then optimize them automatically towards a CPA goal. Our technology works much better than Google's optmizer. We need a talented developer to make help the CTO get the product ready for "Freemium" release.

Please check out our linkedin job listing: www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=2305473

Thanks, Ben

creativeone··on Ask HN: We were told our idea is amazing, but our startup is failing - what now?
Have you tried promoting on Adwords, go for long tail keywords, optimize, optimize, optimize? Have you done A/B testing on your landing pages? Have you thought about installing an affiliate program?
creativeone··on Newsledge.com for a Macbook Air
Can you tell us more about newsledge? Or are you just referring to it as a domain that you are selling?
creativeone··on Best way to manage contacts and build a "living" network for my young career?
Being able to keep track of facebook, twitter, email interactions in one place would be great.
creativeone··on Best way to manage contacts and build a "living" network for my young career?
Would the basic salesforce "contact management service" be right for me? Any other recommendations?
creativeone··on Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
Works on my iPhone, way to go, the screen size is a little nit of a problem but the site runs smoothly.
creativeone··on Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
Awesome app! I'd actually enjoy reading regular books like this. Can I upload PDFs to have read to me at my speed of choice? If you could access my kindle library that be even better.
creativeone··on Groupon getting pummeled daily in Israeli deal market, Buy2 leads
The point is that the penetration of daily deal sites in the Israeli market is deeper than that of the US. And groupon is lagging compared to its Israeli competitors.
creativeone··on Groupon getting pummeled daily in Israeli deal market, Buy2 leads
GDP of israel is just over that of Louisiana.
creativeone··on Groupon getting pummeled daily in Israeli deal market, Buy2 leads
I wouldnt say totally preposterous to compare. After all these companies rely heavily on Facebook for their marketing, of course their email list is probably their key marketing tool, but that info isn't available. Then again, I did also write the article so I am a little biased, thanks for the feedback.
creativeone··on Ask HN: Ok... I just dev'd & shipped my web app. Now what?
Write articles for blogs. Get those articles published. If its israeli. I can get something published for you
creativeone··on How I decided the price for my Japanese candy subscription service
Anything from Israel that people might want to subscribe to? I was thinking maybe wine.
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