Clicks should generate immediate sales... because they can.
If you see an ad for McDonalds, and your aren't at a McDonalds, there is nothing you can do about it at that moment. Maybe, if McDonalds is lucky, you will remember their branding and go eat there later. Maybe not.
When you are on the internet, however, you are generally able to make a purchase right then and there, from your computer. So why then shouldn't sales be the goal? Unlike branding, they provide immediate revenue, and immediate, measurable feedback as to how your how your advertising campaign is doing.
Branding is nice, but really its just a means of keeping something in a consumers mind until they are ready to give you a sale. Thats why its much more lucrative to skip directly to the sale.
I don't know where you got $299 to set up adwords from. That must have been a long time ago. When I set up adwords 3 months ago, it cost $5. Plus, of course, the cost of the ads.
Dude, contextual menus rock. I'm constantly anoyed by my Powerbook's lack of them. Without contextual menus I have to hunt around through all the different menus up top and try to find what I want. With contextual menus, I just right click and its there. What could be more simple?
Just one of the many ways in which the Macintosh UI is rediculously overrated.
The Gimp interface is alright for photo editing. It sucks hard for painting, though. MacPaint perfected the Paint program interface circa 1986, there really hasn't been anything better since then.
How is this program different from the 100 other free paint programs for windows?
Well, as someone who has wanted a decent paint program for years, I can assure you that every one of those "100 other free paint programs" is crap. If this one is half decent, it will be a huge improvement. This is something that has been needed for a long time.
MS Paint is no prize, but its what I use when I don't want to deal with the UI hassle that is GIMP. Of course, MS Paint has actually gotten worse over the years... it was much more useful back in Windows 98, when you could do transparent gifs, but you can't even do that with it on the XP version.
I'm hoping Paint.NET will inspire MS to get off its butt and make a decent default paint application.
I use wordpress. Its nice but comment spam is a real problem. Or at least it was. I had the same online poker guy spaming me 5 times a day until I changed the name of the php file that comments get submitted to. That seem to have done the trick, at least as far as automated spamming.
Yeah, then spend 6 hours wrestling with mod_jk so it will play nice behind Apache. Its either that or use Tomcat to serve your static files, which is silly, if you have any traffic.
.stupid would be great, the we wouldn't need all these other extra domains. The entire.biz nameset could be ported to.stupid... of course, nobody would notice.
There are International Schools all over the world. If you happen to have teaching credentials you could work at one. They will pay you, house you, and handle most of the paperwork. They have recruiting fairs in the springtime, in places like Boston and San Francisco.
You might end up teaching a bunch of 10th graders how to use Microsoft Excell. So its not the most technical of IT positions, but International School communities are a lot of fun and its not a bad life.
This screwed us last night. Our favorite show, LOST, goes to 9:01. The ending was a real shocker... but we missed it, beause the Tivo cut out just seconds before the big dramattic ending. It was beyond obnoxious.
Give the kid a break. Its perfectly normal for proto-geeks to be interested in Computer Science at age 11. I was. Granted, I didn't have a vast understanding of the feild... but I understood things like logic gates and representing data in binary (thank you Rocky's Boots.) There was certainly an interest, and I don't think that was particularly unusal for a kid of my level of geekieness who happend to have an Apple II in the house.
Yeah, I also saw he was leasing a 2002 Malibu at $320 a month. Whats up with that? A year of those payments and you could buy my car. And there are worse things than driving a '98 Neon.
Not to be a link whore, but I run an election related site - The Electoral College Vote Calculator - and I can report that traffic is going through the roof today. As of 11 am EST, its already on pace to quadruple yesterday's traffic - and yesterday was a record (5000 unique visitors - as an armchair webmaster, thats quite a lot for me).
All this for a dinky little site that never made it past the second page of the google search results. I can imagine what the servers at some of the more widely publicised sites are going through.
As an anti-Bush Redskins fan, I can't decide whether to be happy or sad. I think my head is about to explode.
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>No Mac user I know talks about how much OS X sucks... yet, with Windows, it happens all the time.
Pleased to meet you. I own a mac powerbook, and I'd like to tell you how much OS X sucks. Why?
- Only one mouse button. Thats really debilitating. Sure, you can get a USB mouse for a desktop system, but on a laptop you are stuck having to hit the keyboard and the mouse button every time you want to right click. Not that there are ever any usefull funcitons in the drop down menus anyway - Mac applications are designed for people who can't use computers very well to be able to use. Those of us who want more functionality from their applications are stuck.
- Window management is rediculous. You can't maximize a window without jumping through hoops. And those pretty eye-candy window control buttons in the tilte bar are way to small and easy to miss.
- The Finder is lame. Windows Explorer is crap too, but you can get a lot more functionality out of it if you know where to look.
- Crashes just as often as my windows PC. I bought the thing for stability and have been very dissapointed.
- Safari is way better than Internet Explorer on Windows, but far, far the inferior of Firefox
Don't get me wrong, I think Windows sucks too, and I do appreciate the OS X command line. But OS X's much ballyhooed GUI interface runs a far second behind windows in terms of actual utility.
So to anyone who is considering the switch, I say, dont. Take the extra money you would blow on a powerbook and buy yourself a nice Sony laptop.
That sounds even lamer than.biz.travel is bad, but no way its lamer than.biz. Travel at least is a word, and could go well with some website names, like, say, Hawaiian.travel.....biz, on the other hand, has no excuse. Its not even a word, just some crap some idiot made up trying to sound hip in the late '90s.
I do agree with your observation, though - I too have never seen a legit business in the.biz namespace.
He's entitled to a fair trial in a court of law, and I hope he gets that. However, my personal contempt for this person opperates independently of the US Legal system. Otherwise, it would be like saying, well, OJ was found innocent of murdering his wife, so you shouln't be worried if he's dating your daughter.
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Clicks should generate immediate sales... because they can.
If you see an ad for McDonalds, and your aren't at a McDonalds, there is nothing you can do about it at that moment. Maybe, if McDonalds is lucky, you will remember their branding and go eat there later. Maybe not.
When you are on the internet, however, you are generally able to make a purchase right then and there, from your computer. So why then shouldn't sales be the goal? Unlike branding, they provide immediate revenue, and immediate, measurable feedback as to how your how your advertising campaign is doing.
Branding is nice, but really its just a means of keeping something in a consumers mind until they are ready to give you a sale. Thats why its much more lucrative to skip directly to the sale.
So, an extra $294 for google to look at your site and say "nice site"? No thanks.
I've made thousands of dollars off of that particular business model. Who's the idiot?
I don't know where you got $299 to set up adwords from. That must have been a long time ago. When I set up adwords 3 months ago, it cost $5. Plus, of course, the cost of the ads.
Dude, contextual menus rock. I'm constantly anoyed by my Powerbook's lack of them. Without contextual menus I have to hunt around through all the different menus up top and try to find what I want. With contextual menus, I just right click and its there. What could be more simple?
Just one of the many ways in which the Macintosh UI is rediculously overrated.
The Gimp interface is alright for photo editing. It sucks hard for painting, though. MacPaint perfected the Paint program interface circa 1986, there really hasn't been anything better since then.
How is this program different from the 100 other free paint programs for windows?
Well, as someone who has wanted a decent paint program for years, I can assure you that every one of those "100 other free paint programs" is crap. If this one is half decent, it will be a huge improvement. This is something that has been needed for a long time.
MS Paint is no prize, but its what I use when I don't want to deal with the UI hassle that is GIMP. Of course, MS Paint has actually gotten worse over the years... it was much more useful back in Windows 98, when you could do transparent gifs, but you can't even do that with it on the XP version.
I'm hoping Paint.NET will inspire MS to get off its butt and make a decent default paint application.
Replaced is the wrong word - I read plenty of blogs, and the Kausfiles blog on Slate is the best of the lot.
I use wordpress. Its nice but comment spam is a real problem. Or at least it was. I had the same online poker guy spaming me 5 times a day until I changed the name of the php file that comments get submitted to. That seem to have done the trick, at least as far as automated spamming.
Yeah, then spend 6 hours wrestling with mod_jk so it will play nice behind Apache. Its either that or use Tomcat to serve your static files, which is silly, if you have any traffic.
you didn't multiply by 100. its once every 455 centuries. i think that means we are due.
.stupid would be great, the we wouldn't need all these other extra domains. The entire .biz nameset could be ported to .stupid... of course, nobody would notice.
The black streak is exhaust.
There are International Schools all over the world. If you happen to have teaching credentials you could work at one. They will pay you, house you, and handle most of the paperwork.
They have recruiting fairs in the springtime, in places like Boston and San Francisco.
You might end up teaching a bunch of 10th graders how to use Microsoft Excell. So its not the most technical of IT positions, but International School communities are a lot of fun and its not a bad life.
This screwed us last night. Our favorite show, LOST, goes to 9:01. The ending was a real shocker... but we missed it, beause the Tivo cut out just seconds before the big dramattic ending. It was beyond obnoxious.
Give the kid a break. Its perfectly normal for proto-geeks to be interested in Computer Science at age 11. I was. Granted, I didn't have a vast understanding of the feild... but I understood things like logic gates and representing data in binary (thank you Rocky's Boots.) There was certainly an interest, and I don't think that was particularly unusal for a kid of my level of geekieness who happend to have an Apple II in the house.
Every kid needs a Little Red Wagon
MSN is a moderate rip-off of Googles UI. If you want a blatant rip off of Google's UI, its at http://search.yahoo.com/
Yeah, I also saw he was leasing a 2002 Malibu at $320 a month. Whats up with that? A year of those payments and you could buy my car. And there are worse things than driving a '98 Neon.
Not to be a link whore, but I run an election related site - The Electoral College Vote Calculator - and I can report that traffic is going through the roof today. As of 11 am EST, its already on pace to quadruple yesterday's traffic - and yesterday was a record (5000 unique visitors - as an armchair webmaster, thats quite a lot for me).
All this for a dinky little site that never made it past the second page of the google search results. I can imagine what the servers at some of the more widely publicised sites are going through.
As an anti-Bush Redskins fan, I can't decide whether to be happy or sad. I think my head is about to explode.
>No Mac user I know talks about how much OS X sucks... yet, with Windows, it happens all the time.
Pleased to meet you. I own a mac powerbook, and I'd like to tell you how much OS X sucks. Why?
- Only one mouse button. Thats really debilitating. Sure, you can get a USB mouse for a desktop system, but on a laptop you are stuck having to hit the keyboard and the mouse button every time you want to right click. Not that there are ever any usefull funcitons in the drop down menus anyway - Mac applications are designed for people who can't use computers very well to be able to use. Those of us who want more functionality from their applications are stuck.
- Window management is rediculous. You can't maximize a window without jumping through hoops. And those pretty eye-candy window control buttons in the tilte bar are way to small and easy to miss.
- The Finder is lame. Windows Explorer is crap too, but you can get a lot more functionality out of it if you know where to look.
- Crashes just as often as my windows PC. I bought the thing for stability and have been very dissapointed.
- Safari is way better than Internet Explorer on Windows, but far, far the inferior of Firefox
Don't get me wrong, I think Windows sucks too, and I do appreciate the OS X command line. But OS X's much ballyhooed GUI interface runs a far second behind windows in terms of actual utility.
So to anyone who is considering the switch, I say, dont. Take the extra money you would blow on a powerbook and buy yourself a nice Sony laptop.
That sounds even lamer than .biz .travel is bad, but no way its lamer than .biz. Travel at least is a word, and could go well with some website names, like, say, Hawaiian.travel.... .biz, on the other hand, has no excuse. Its not even a word, just some crap some idiot made up trying to sound hip in the late '90s.
.biz namespace.
I do agree with your observation, though - I too have never seen a legit business in the
Some fine specimins of what you describe.
He's entitled to a fair trial in a court of law, and I hope he gets that. However, my personal contempt for this person opperates independently of the US Legal system. Otherwise, it would be like saying, well, OJ was found innocent of murdering his wife, so you shouln't be worried if he's dating your daughter.