Best practices on how to run a Facebook page
August 17th, 2010 // 7:51 am @ Aymeric // One Comment
I would like to share with you two Facebook pages that I find fabulous and that are good examples of how to grow a loyal following in a Facebook page without the budget of RedBull or Starbucks. Case study 1: Lingopal The first is the Facebook page of Lingopal, an iphone travel app. The application [...]
Category : Online experiments &Startup tips and tricks
The Marshmallow Challenge, on the importance of prototyping
June 27th, 2010 // 12:18 pm @ Aymeric // No Comments
Today I found this link on Hacker News about “failing” early and often and the Marshmallow challenge. (I don’t like the term “fail” because everyone has their own definition of failure and success, and what you might see as a failure might be the best experience someone is having and enjoying, instead we could say [...]
Category : Entrepreneurship & Startups &Online experiments
How to get cheap and targeted paid traffic?
June 9th, 2010 // 10:42 am @ Aymeric // 5 Comments
What does cheap mean? Raw CPC is not a good enough metric. When you run an ad campaign, you don’t want to minimize the cost per click, you want to minimize the cost per acquisition. If you pay 1000 visitors at 5 cents each, but no one is interested by what you offer on your [...]
Category : Online experiments
How to test the viability of your online business idea
June 8th, 2010 // 3:32 pm @ Aymeric // 12 Comments
I didn’t invent this method, I first learned about it in the book “Four hour work week” of Tim Ferriss (highly recommended, without affiliate link :)). In this article, I will explain the method and add some practical tips to it based on my own experience. Bear in mind this method doesn’t work with all [...]
Category : Online experiments
Submission to 100 directories, is it worth it?
June 7th, 2010 // 8:43 am @ Aymeric // No Comments
Last week I paid $10 to Seobuilding.com for their “Package MD1 – 100 Manual Directory Submissions” as a risk-free experiment. I was curious to see how traffic you could get from these directories. During the following week, I received many emails from the directories asking me to confirm my email address so I do not [...]
Category : Online experiments
How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity ten fold
May 17th, 2010 // 4:04 am @ Aymeric // 10 Comments
I have been on the .Net wagon since the beta 1 (2002?) and I have been a .Net consultant since then at Readify. Note: I don’t want to sound arrogant in the next paragraph (bloody Frenchman) but it is important to explain the breadth of my experience with .Net for you to understand why my [...]
Category : Online experiments &Programming tips and tricks
Experimenting with virtual assistants
May 3rd, 2009 // 8:11 am @ Aymeric // 14 Comments
What is a virtual assistant? Earlier during the year, I read a book called “Four hour work week” from Tim Ferriss where I first learned about the concept of personal virtual assistant. Some people make a living out of being virtual assistants and helping busy people with their everyday tasks (such as organizing a meeting, [...]
Category : Online experiments
