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Re: Publishers Say Email is #1 Revenue-Driving Technology

Jay Neely — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 09:48:26 -0000

Ellen, great highlights from the report.

I was wondering if you could share the sample size of the survey, and if these were all general consumer publishers, or business publishers, or some mix? I checked the special report page, but it didn't list any of this, so I'm not sure how to tell if the research is actually representative or just anecdotal.

Re: Publishers Say Email is #1 Revenue-Driving Technology

Jay Neely — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 09:43:02 -0000

Digital editions are a horrible attempt at shoehorning a print experience into a digital format. No one actually wants to read smaller text across columns, or "flip" pages. Publishers should stop clinging to the trappings of print and focus on improving the experience / taking advantage of the possibilities of the medium web readers are actually using: their website.

Re: Whether Print Magazines Are Dead Or Alive Depends on Your Business Model

Jay Neely — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:09:42 -0000

Bob all due respect to you, but c'mon now, "no two business plans alike" is pure sophistry. It wouldn't be an industry to begin with if these businesses were more dissimilar from each other than they are similar.

There are obviously trends in what's working for many publishers: events, sponsored content, better membership programs, monetizing newsletters, etc.

And yes, there are a huge number of unique revenue streams many publishers are developing -- what I was saying was in an article titled "depends on the business model" it would have been nice to see a few specific examples of novel business models that are (and aren't) working. Without it, what are you telling PubExec readers that they don't already know?

All the best.

Re: Whether Print Magazines Are Dead Or Alive Depends on Your Business Model

Jay Neely — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:18:17 -0000

Wish the article delivered on the headline's promise! =/ No discussion of actual business models of different mags.

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Jay Neely — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 09:27:30 -0000

Heads up team, there seems to be an error in your formatting on this article. No spacing between any of the paragraphs.

Re: Meet Your Bagel With Harvard Based Startup

Jay Neely — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:10:48 -0000

Just a heads up, MVP in this context stands for 'Minimum Viable Product', not model view presenter.

Re: Startup Shows Usefulness of Shea Center and Accelerators

Jay Neely — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:54:38 -0000

Wish there were a link to their site. =P

Re: Updated list of venture studios and startup foundries

Jay Neely — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:52:59 -0000

I think your link for Max Levchin's HVF is wrong. It redirects to Horizons Companies, a media production studio. http://www.hvflabs.com/ looks like the correct link.

Good list!

Re: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Jay Neely — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:03:58 -0000

A few small errors: the "Future M" link is a mailto: link, the GridcoSystems and Wordstream links are broken (missing an 's' and an 'r' respectively), and Kent Bennett's twitter handle is missing another 't' at the end.

Re: http://developer.eventbrite.com/doc/events/event_get/

Jay Neely — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:21:39 -0000

Can you define 'capacity' - is this total number of tickets? # currently available? Something related to the venue object that for some reason isn't stored there?

Re: Finer grained control of hyphenation with CSS4 Text

Jay Neely — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:33:12 -0000

The hyphenate-limit-* properties are listed in the spec as at risk of elimination "if there are no (correct) implementations" -- how likely is this?

Re: Is Twitter Hijacking StockTwits’ Idea?

Jay Neely — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:38:38 -0000

Another worrying move for folks building on the twitter platform.

Re: A List of Checklists for Startups

Jay Neely — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:10:01 -0000

A list of startup promotion tactics I created has gotten around 160 upvotes on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Startu...

Re: The Future of Retail Requires Serendipitous Marketing – with Doug Stephens

Jay Neely — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:45:11 -0000

This actually drove home for me how important Amazon will become to mobile advertising and mobile commerce. Same-day shipping allows purchase of context-triggered product promotions even when there are no in-person purchase opportunities.

Re: 10 Tweet Types Businesses Are Using to Get More Retweets

Jay Neely — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:55:00 -0000

Thanks Keith!

You do need credibility. I think scale & history do make it easier, but only so much carries over to social channels you still have to create it with the audience that's there, whether you're a big brand or a small one.

Re: 10 Tweet Types Businesses Are Using to Get More Retweets

Jay Neely — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:36:27 -0000

Haha, you should tweet and ask them.

Hmmm, I wonder if it might be doable for RiverInsights to take a look at which types of businesses / brands tweet quotes from which people most often? Thomas Jefferson has a lot of great money quotes (pun intended); it wouldn't be a surprise if banks were more likely to quote him than, say... football brands.

Might be a future blog post. Thanks for commenting Jordyn!

Re: Why I Love Reddit

Jay Neely — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:01:17 -0000

Easily one of my favorite sites on the web. Any particular sub-reddits you enjoy Kent?

Re: 64 Co-working Spaces For Every Entrepreneur

Jay Neely — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:35:13 -0000

A few more coworking spaces in Boston I'd like to point out:

http://encandle.com/ - A new space on Newbury St. started by a former Barbarian Group partner and Boston World Partnerships connector, Jay Sun.

http://dogpatchlabs.com/ - It's invite-only, but a great space provided by Polaris Venture Partners for entrepreneurs they think have potential.

http://industry-lab.com/ - Coworking + maker space in Inman Square, Cambridge.

http://intrepid-labs.com/ - New coworking for growing startup teams of 5+. Located near Kendall Square.

Re: Once upon a time, I Believed in the Fairytale of Klout

Jay Neely — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:17:14 -0000

I think Klout is pretty useless, but you&#039re burying your significant points in a lot of ranting and sensationalism. Don&#039t cause people to just write you off as biased / a hater. If you really want people to stop taking Klout seriously, you have to make sure you are being taken seriously.

Re: How to Hire a Good Marketer (for Startups)

Jay Neely — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:51:09 -0000

Hey Rodney,

Learn what you can to cover skill gaps at least temporarily. The Ask YC archive and newer Ask HN archive have good roundups of marketing (and other startup) questions answered by startuppers:http://www.gabrielweinberg....
http://remembersaurus.com/a...

And communities like Answers.OnStartups can also help you out: http://answers.onstartups.com/

Re: http://www.travispew.com/finding-a-technical-co-founder

Jay Neely — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:04:36 -0000

Travis, could you talk about how you and Akshay met, and how conversations about you joining GetComparisons went?

Re: What You Shouldn't Post on Your Facebook Page If You Want a Job - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

Jay Neely — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:27:43 -0000

The only fact this graphic shows is that it's created from a crap survey.

The bottom question says 7% of employers never rejected a candidate because of information from a social networking site.. wait, I thought it was the 26% reported in the question DIRECTLY ABOVE IT!?

Further, the second question's percentages adding up to a total of 100% make it pretty likely that employers were being asked a multiple choice question they could choose only one answer for. Radio buttons instead of checkboxes, if you've taken these kinds of surveys before. That's a poor choice for a question like this; it assumes both that there's only one factor in your reason for rejecting a candidate, and that the reason is the same every time.

Please stop spreading crap data just because it's wrapped up in a pretty chart.

Re: How to Hire a Good Marketer (for Startups)

Jay Neely — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:34:05 -0000

Glad to hear it; thanks for reading!

Re: How to Hire a Good Marketer (for Startups)

Jay Neely — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:33:16 -0000

Couldn't agree more that product management skills are key, Derek. I'm not sure why "positioning and targeting" would be separate from marketing, though -- I think of these as some of the key things a marketing director helps with. Marketing's not just about reaching out to the market, it's about understanding the market (and your company's role in it), right?

Re: Weekend Favs April Sixteen

Jay Neely — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:50:44 -0000

Have you found Timely to be accurate? I've tried using them for a couple of weeks now, but the RT and clicks data they're showing is totally off. Tweeting @flowtown has gotten no response.