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Re: Easy Website Optimization: 3 Fast Steps to Generating More Leads and Sales

Ryan Waggoner — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:36:59 -0000

On "thing #2: Tweak the post’s URL so it contains the keyword":

Make absolutely sure you setup a permanent redirect from the old URL to the new one, or you're wasting the inbound links that you're trying to capitalize on in the first place!

Re: How to Create a Tripwire Product That Bankrolls Your Facebook Ads

Ryan Waggoner — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:35:53 -0000

Fantastic post. I've been meaning to experiment with tripwire offers and seriously overthinking it and dragging the process out. Appreciate the clear breakdown!

Re: Advanced Workflows: How to A/B Test Email Funnels in Drip for Dramatically Higher Conversions

Ryan Waggoner — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:43:27 -0000

lol, it's pretty amazing that you're out there spamming blogs and none of your links even work. That's amazingly embarrassing, even for a spammer.

Re: Advanced Workflows: How to A/B Test Email Funnels in Drip for Dramatically Higher Conversions

Ryan Waggoner — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:41:37 -0000

Link is broken for me

Re: Individual Tax Planning Under The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Of 2017

Ryan Waggoner — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:09:26 -0000

This is what I thought too, but I think the 20% deduction is basically limited to the lesser of 20% of QBI or 20% of taxable income. See below for text from conference agreement.

So in your example, if SE income is $400k and their taxable income ends up at $315k, they'd get a $63k deduction, not an $80k deduction.

"The taxpayer’s deduction for qualified business income for the taxable year is equal to the sum of (a) the lesser of the combined qualified business income amount for the taxable year or an amount equal to 20 percent of the excess of taxpayer’s taxable income over any net capital gain69 and qualified cooperative dividends, plus (b) the lesser of 20 percent of qualified cooperative dividends and taxable income (reduced by net capital gain). This sum may not exceed the taxpayer's taxable income for the taxable year (reduced by net capital gain)."

Re: Advanced Workflows: How to A/B Test Email Funnels in Drip for Dramatically Higher Conversions

Ryan Waggoner — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 09:53:46 -0000

Grrr...this is so convoluted and limited and frustrating. How can a product as advanced and powerful as Drip be completely missing real split testing? For broadcast, workflow emails, etc. Another option: give us some way to easily split a segment into multiple segments randomly. Ideally not just 2, but n segments.

Re: How to start your courses on a specific date or schedule

Ryan Waggoner — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:05:33 -0000

This is a little bit frustrating....why is this a hacky workaround with Zapier instead of just an option for your built-in drip technology? Why can't I just specify a start date for everyone?

Re: Agency Advantage 19: Ryan Waggoner on earning $250,000+ a year as a freelancer

Ryan Waggoner — Thu, 26 May 2016 17:47:48 -0000

Hey Ian, glad you enjoyed it! If you sign up at http://letsmakeapps.io/Agen..., you'll get some bonuses from this episode and you'll also get my newsletter. I've been lax on the articles the last couple months as I've been dealing with launch of several projects and reorganizing my platform, but restarting next week, so if you're already signed up, you should start seeing new content soon! Also, feel free to email me at hi at ryanwaggoner dot com. Thanks!

Re: Agency Advantage 19: Ryan Waggoner on earning $250,000+ a year as a freelancer

Ryan Waggoner — Thu, 05 May 2016 22:55:38 -0000

Hey all, hope you enjoyed the episode. Happy to chat about any questions anyone might have!

Re: Growth Hacking Reddit: 10k+ Visitors Each Month (For Free)

Ryan Waggoner — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 10:49:33 -0000

You made $1100 in commissions? Or Amazon did $1100 in sales from your affiliate link? If the latter, that's pretty low monetization from the amount of traffic and engagement that you're getting. Proving my point.

Look, if Reddit is working for you and your audience, carry on! I just think it represents a lot of effort for little return. YMMV.

Re: Growth Hacking Reddit: 10k+ Visitors Each Month (For Free)

Ryan Waggoner — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 11:26:12 -0000

This is the best and most relevant comment here so far. I've had mixed success with Reddit, with both organic posting and running ads, but I've basically abandoned it because the resulting traffic when it works is just so low quality. I'll let readers post my stuff to Reddit, and if it pops, it pops.

EDIT: By the way, the article itself is excellent as a tactical guide, but I'd like to hear more about the ultimate outcomes of this Reddit traffic. This strategy may work great for certain types of marketing, but I think most people will be disappointed when the flood of Reddit traffic fails to materialize into anything of substance.

Re: Barry for Pets closing after 60 years

Ryan Waggoner — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 10:06:42 -0000

Judging by this asshole's behavior and people's numerous reviews of him over the years, he had no trouble ignoring "mean" comments about how rude and aggressive he was. I'm glad he failed.

Re: Barry for Pets closing after 60 years

Ryan Waggoner — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 05:27:23 -0000

Judging by many of the Yelp reviews, I'm not alone. The guy is extremely rude, and I'm only surprised it took this long for them to go out of business :)

Re: Barry for Pets closing after 60 years

Ryan Waggoner — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:04:35 -0000

Gary was an ass, and the neighborhood is better off without him.

Re: Double Your Freelancing | Lesson 1 | Double Your Freelancing Clients

Ryan Waggoner — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:39:41 -0000

I know I've heard Brennan talking about the product vs. service thing many times before, but I think this module is a very clear, succinct way of making the distinctions between the two clear, and laying it as a foundational principle that drives other strategies.

Re: Double Your Freelancing | Lesson 2 | Double Your Freelancing Clients

Ryan Waggoner — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:38:00 -0000

I have the exact same issue with housecleaners!

Re: Double Your Freelancing | Lesson 3 | Double Your Freelancing Clients

Ryan Waggoner — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:37:17 -0000

I really appreciated that Brennan was anticipating me jumping ahead mentally and trying to figure out how selling a product is going to work for me :) I'm going to spend some time just ruminating on the difference between buying a product and a service and leave tactics and personal application to later lesson

Re: Double your freelancing rate in 14 days, even if you’re bad at pricing and sales [partner post]

Ryan Waggoner — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:02:11 -0000

This IS an ad. Sorry if that wasn't clear to you.

Re: How to Use One of the Seven Deadly Sins to Your Advantage

Ryan Waggoner — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:50:28 -0000

Yeah, I've totally done that :)

Re: Making You More Awesome: The Red-Hot World of Online Learning Services

Ryan Waggoner — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:08:49 -0000

Marshall, thanks for the amazing overview. The holiday season is always a great time for me to step back and bit and think through what we're building at DailyPath and how we can better meet our vision of helping more people build the life they want. This post is a great macro overview of the broader landscape and it's awesome to hear that others like yourself are catching the vision of why this is so vital for the world we live in. The space is definitely heating up and we can't wait to see what 2012 has in store.

Re: Repository Structures Strategies

Ryan Waggoner — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:00:37 -0000

A couple readers have already mentioned it, but we also use the strategy outlined in the link below for our Git setup that we use at 21times.org and mightybrand.com.

http://nvie.com/posts/a-suc...

Re: The Beastie Boys Guide to More Creative Designs

Ryan Waggoner — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:22:00 -0000

I'm not a designer, but I think these are true for any creative endeavor. #5 is probably the hardest one for me. I often don't think my stuff is good enough to collaborate with someone else.

Re: Peter Shankman's Lawyer Sends Cease and Desist to HARO Competitor - mediabistro.com: PRNewser

Ryan Waggoner — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:27:54 -0000

"Designed to deceive"? Designed to deceive who, exactly? As I said in my comment above, I coded this homepage more than a year ago, and I have screenshots and code to prove it. And let's be honest, if you're designing an app that connects two parties that belong to discrete groups, it's fairly likely that your homepage will have a call to action for each of them.

Re: Peter Shankman's Lawyer Sends Cease and Desist to HARO Competitor - mediabistro.com: PRNewser

Ryan Waggoner — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:11:55 -0000

I'm the guy behind PRManna who got the C&D from Shankman / HARO on Friday. I appreciate the fair position you're taking, and I welcome any questions people have for me.

Also, on the issue of how similar the PRManna homepage is to the HARO homepage. I personally don't think that's the case, but regardless of my opinion, what I can tell you is that the PRManna homepage was designed more than 10 months before HARO did their relaunch in early 2010. In fact, here's a screenshot that was posted publicly to Skitch on March 5th, 2009:

http://skitch.com/ryanwaggo...

I've got plenty of other code, screenshots, and other bits of proof that I built this service a year before HARO decided to launch what they've got today.

Re: The 5 Personalities Every Successful Website Must Employ

Ryan Waggoner — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:18:08 -0000

These are great, but I disagree with the order. Strategist might come first, but user should come second. Too many websites are built for an audience that doesn't exist, when simply talking to users first would have put everyone on the same page.

Customer Development for websites.