It's obvious right. Talk to your customers. But somehow we managed to get by for years at PRLeap with an outbound email address that resembled: noresponse@domain.com.
We rely so much on email, and yet it's still largely a blackbox. We type
into the box and hope the other side gets our message. Amazing how so
much has changed on the Internet, and yet so little has changed.
Last week I migrated our 5 year old Postfix mail server to Slicehost, and took the opportunity to install some spam fighting tools that weren't available 5 years ago. In the process, I noticed that my primary email account's junk folder went from adding 1000+ spam emails a day to less than 20. I hesitated to blog about it but the results keep getting better after 1 week.
I was reminded twice this month of just how different the mindsets of
bootstrapping entrepreneurs are from investment backed ones.
The first reminder came when I read about a high profile company that
went bankrupt earlier this month. I met the founder of this company
about a year ago at ...
A few years ago Seth Godin was asked to name some books he liked, he
mentioned The Republic of Tea, and within a few minutes I had purchased
an out of print copy on Amazon.
After a few chapters I put the book down, I didn't understand what the ...