eugenoprea

I am going to write this from the perspective of a potential employer.

Personally, I don't look at the years of experience someone has, but at the projects that the person worked on and how good that person is at answering some technical questions (to weed out people that lie about their experience and knowledge).

If you are good at what you do, then have some projects to show your expertise. And there are a few options to get them:

1. help a non-profit for a lower pay or even for free 2. contribute to open source projects 3. create a project of your own where you can show what you can do

> What did you do to get a response back from jobs you've submitted an application to?

When applying don't talk about years of experience, but about what projects you completed and how you managed to get them done.

Thant's a great thing to do, Gabe! What email service are you going to use? :)

PS: Subscribed!

I agree with you. They are essentially saying "bye" to those that used Mandrill only for the "utility" path.

I've been reading conversations here on Hacker News and noticed that this has created a lot of frustration among existing Mandrill users, especially for those that have setup the system for their customers.

I believe that MailChimp was aware of this before making this decision and knew that they are going to loose some customers. At this point they will become a bit expensive, even more expensive than SendGrid and a lot of their customer base will migrate away.

However, I do believe that this is something they wanted with this move, so that people using the service for free which took advantage and sent spam and also small businesses that cannot afford to pay a high end service will move away.

Then, they will keep the MailChimp fans, those that afford the service and will spend more on the service.

In conclusion, it's a bold strategy change that will weed out some of the bad accounts and will ultimately improve the revenue stream for MailChimp.

What is really sad is the fact that they are going to also lose a lot of their genuine customers who do not want or need MailChimp.

I usually follow people that i find interesting and sharing good stuff.

I also have an unfollow rule where if someone starts to share something I don't like I just unfollow them.

I've had only good experiences with PayPal and also Braintree. I have an account with Braintree for about 2 years and I like them.

Plus, they offer a great deal for startups, which get no fees for up to 50K in specific countries.

If your work is above average then you should not have an issue getting a job from a US company that will arrange all the paperwork for you.

Alternatively you could start by working in an European office, if the company is global and then find a way to relocate in the US.

However, you would be better by working from home and start doing some freelance work until you get to the expert level. Then, you can get a job and work remotely for any company in the world.

Everyone wants talented people. If you are talented it shouldn't be hard to find something good for you. If there is room for improvement do the work and get noticed by others.

The score will depend on your location, but I agree, it looks like the page has has 2 blocking CSS resources.

they could use their own advice and fix it: "Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML."

Jeff Deutsch explains how he published a post that went viral, what went good, what didn't and some good takeaways that could be used to go viral with your next article.

My pleasure!

The course did really good in terms of conversion rates, but I rushed it a little bit and I didn't manage to get a high amount of traffic, so I can benefit of those high conversion rates.

20% of those who saw the intro video subscribed to get the free series of video tutorials

15% of those who subscribed got on the webcast

5% of those who subscribed purchased the course

But teaching through video and video in general works really well in almost any niche.

I hope this helps, but do let me know if you have any other questions.

I agree with you 100%. Great content is the best way of attracting links and traffic, but sometimes we also need something extra to push that.

Eugen

Thank you!

Excellent tutorial! I am going to use this menu for one of my websites.

Excellent article Jon. Shared it on Google+ :)