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Shameless Self-Promotion, Beautiful Unique Snowflakes, & Extra Nose Syndrome

Popular opinion among smart, skilled, hard-working people seems to go something like this:

Something is wrong with a society/world that values and rewards outgoing people, who talk up their strengths, over good or even great people who do not.

Ah, self-promotion.

Is there any other skill in the world of which smart, skilled, hard-working people love to boast, “I’m just terrible at it”?

The Elephant Is Not Its Trunk — And other reasons to stop fooling yourself, and start marketing

An elephant is long, limber, and slightly tapered. Like a giant roll of cookie dough, but with fewer chocolate chips and a lot more muscles! And an insatiable appetite for peanuts!

Imagine somebody came up to you on the street and announced this proudly to you. 

What would you think of them? Let me take a guess:

First: Wow, ever heard of the Personal Bubble?  

Then: You’re absolutely, flipping, batshit insane. 

Am I right, or am I right?

Elephants are not their trunks. Or their cute little taily-wailies.

How to Write Your Sales Page

It's Time to Redesign The Sales Page! Part 2 (Part 1)

So, last time on "It's Time to Redesign The Sales Page!" we talked about why I decided the Freckle Time Tracking sales page had to be totally redone.

Namely:

How to Write Your Sales Page

It’s Time to Redesign The Sales Page! Part 2 (Part 1)

So, last time on “It’s Time to Redesign The Sales Page!” we talked about why I decided the Freckle Time Tracking sales page had to be totally redone.

Namely:

Pimpin' [Software Projects] Ain't Easy

I spent this weekend at CURUCamp—that is, Central European Ruby Camp—here in Vienna. It totally kicked ass, I got to hang out with friends, make new friends, and learn stuff.

(Plus, thanks to Jürgen the organizer, I now know a place where I can get a decent mojito in stodgy old Vienna. Good thing, too, cuz I feel a mojito-emergency coming on in the near future.

But I digress.)

And I gave a short talk of my own: Pimpin' [Software Projects] Ain't Easy.

Pimpin’ [Software Projects] Ain’t Easy

I spent this weekend at CURUCamp—that is, Central European Ruby Camp—here in Vienna. It totally kicked ass, I got to hang out with friends, make new friends, and learn stuff.

(Plus, thanks to Jürgen the organizer, I now know a place where I can get a decent mojito in stodgy old Vienna. Good thing, too, cuz I feel a mojito-emergency coming on in the near future.

But I digress.)

And I gave a short talk of my own: Pimpin’ [Software Projects] Ain’t Easy.

It's Time to Redesign the Sales Page, Part 1

Before the Redesign

So you've got this product. So I've got this product.

It's totally unique, the only entry in its field, and everybody knows it. It's a rookie entry into an extremely crowded (if not particularly well-differentiated) field. Almost nobody knows it exists.

Your Questions: Tough-love App Marketing Edition

Jon Trelfa writes in with a nerd dilemma as old as time. Or at least as old as the goddamn "web 2.0" moniker.

I've tried the "if you build it, they will come" model and thus far my great-idea has been sitting with zero hits. I've done the SEO stuff to increase ranking as well; still nothing.

I think there's more to launching a site than just building and SEO - what else would you recommend to help "launch" a website/product more quickly?

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