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Customers don’t want what’s best, they want what they want
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Josh Pigford is writing on the Svbtle. October 2, 2013. Customers don’t want what’s best, they want what they want. Like it or not, your customers don’t want what’s best. They want what they want. I’ve been running PopSurvey. But to help you create surveys that your users will actually. To take, we have to put some limitations on things. We don’t call them limitations that’d really kill the marketingbut for practical purposes, that’s what they are). Despite the fact that we know all these things to be tr...
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Reentry
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Josh Pigford is writing on the Svbtle. November 11, 2013. Reentry is hard. We were out for barely a week and the internal reaction I had when we returned to the States nearly made me sick. Recently my wife and I spent about 7 days in Sajcavilla, Guatemala with a team of about 20 people to do a medical clinic. Ashley and I helped out with getting people reading and prescription glasses. It was amazing. Despite all of that, they’re intensely grateful. They’re kind-hearted. They smile. A lot....As a clin...
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Freelancers: How to Get Paid
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Josh Pigford is writing on the Svbtle. January 7, 2013. Freelancers: How to Get Paid. Back in April of this past year, Freelancers Union launched a weeklong campaign to bring to light the plight of many freelancers around the globe: not getting paid. They called it, The World’s Longest Invoice. And freelancers could post their name, along with the job they’d done and the amount they had been stiffed for by their deadbeat client. It’s a fantastic start to building your own contract. But you know what.
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Don’t Be That Guy: Why Bailing on Clients is Low Class
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Josh Pigford is writing on the Svbtle. June 14, 2012. Don’t Be That Guy: Why Bailing on Clients is Low Class. I’ve been hearing a good bit lately from current and propspective clients who say something like, Our previous designer went MIA or The previous developer stopped answering our emails. We Need a Culture of Feature Killing.
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TrackThePack: The Final Shipment
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Josh Pigford is writing on the Svbtle. February 25, 2013. TrackThePack: The Final Shipment. The headline is admittedly a bit dramatic, but I needed something cleverand that’s pretty dang clever. Last night I sent an email out to over 20,000 TrackThePack users letting them know that as of March 31, TrackThePack will cease to exist. TrackThePack was launched back in 2006 while Ashley and I owned Fugitive Toys. But as you’d guess, since I’m shutting it down, none of those ideas really panned out. 350,000 pu...
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Josh Pigford is writing on the Svbtle. Jun 6, 2012. The Client is Always Wrong. In most service-based businesses, the phrase the client is always right tends to come up. The idea being that because the client is forking over their cash, they get what they want. Fortunately for you, that’s bull honky. The client is not always right. In fact, they’re frequently 27 shades of wrong. They don’t have a fat clue what they want or why they want it. That, my friend, is why they hired you. Continue reading →.
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Kill the Free: How to Increase Revenue by 40%
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Josh Pigford is writing on the Svbtle. May 23, 2013. Kill the Free: How to Increase Revenue by 40%. A couple of days ago I tweeted. Dropped our free plan, dropped the trial period, dropped our cheapest plan and doubled our prices. Result? 40% increase in revenue. That seemed to strike a chord with quite a few people, many of whom are also shooting in the dark trying to figure out how to make their businesses succeed. Pricing and the Survey Industry. That’s the kind of stuff we fight against every day....
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Music Subscription Services Have Ruined New Music…And I Love It
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Josh Pigford is writing on the Svbtle. June 12, 2012. Music Subscription Services Have Ruined New Music…And I Love It. One year ago I started using Rdio. Exclusively. Meaning a year ago I completely scrapped my iTunes library (literally moved all my music to an external drive just to store it), and started using Rdio for all my music listening needs. Unfortunately, Rdio has now ruined new music for me. New music. In the past month, I’ve added 52 new albums to my collection. But with Rdio, there are plent...
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Desensitization and Unbalance: I’m Taking a News Sabbatical
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Josh Pigford is writing on the Svbtle. April 16, 2013. Desensitization and Unbalance: I’m Taking a News Sabbatical. I’m taking a month off from reading or watching the news. Maybe longer. I’m a bit of a news junkie in that I find myself checking news sites probably a dozen times a day. It’s part habit, part entertainment and part curiosity. But more and more I find myself annoyed and really kind of disgusted with traditional media. Last week The Guardian (surprisingly) published. But not once did I have ...
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