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Overdeliver: Build a Business for a Lifetime Playing the Long Game in Direct Response Marketing
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Many people would view this approach as advice for building a charity or aiming a business only at your close friends — it couldn’t possibly be applied to a business that makes enough money to put clothes on the children, keep food on the table, and pay the rent. But this is precisely how I built a business that, for over a decade, has had a waitin
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Consider return on investment when determining the order of experiments. There are many factors that team leads consider when prioritizing projects, but I’d argue that doing the most efficient, high-ROI projects first is the right path, because they will have a longer period of paying compound interest. When teams do quarterly planning, they often ... See more
Sean Colombo • The Secret to Duolingo’s Growth
I’m in a constant search for new and better ways to market my own company, and as I run across them, have ideas, read cool things, I’m sharing them with my people. As my friend Rich Schefren once told me, “We get paid a lot to think for other people.”