Watching @James Cridland on stage at Podsummit here in Calgary. 👏 #podsummit #yyc

It's exhausting to receive emails/messages all day that you can tell were drafted by AI. - Often 4+ paragraphs long (and verbose) - Tons of non-specific language, generalized examples - They all have this "uncanny valley" feel If you're hoping for a response, please write as a human.

Marketing tip: Make your call-to-action impossible to miss. Buttons beat text links every time. Adding a button to your renewal emails, landing pages, etc, is the easiest way to increase conversions/payments/signups. When in doubt, add a button. #saas #startup

Doing the podcast live today with @npub1pn3e...z99g if you'd like to join us in chat: https://youtube.com/live/R0jl5JVk6UA?feature=share

In 2016, @npub1fjrq...v786 wrote this piece about podcasting:

Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for – Marco.org

With YouTube's recent ascendence, this part feels prescient now: "It’s decentralized, free, fair, open, uncontrollable by any single entity, as long as the ecosystem of podcast apps remains diverse enough that no app can dictate arbitrary terms to publishers." #podcast

Talking about innovation, nothing beats the overall impact of open protocols and open source. The "old" standards like TCP/IP, SMTP, and HTTP are what truly unlocked the economic growth in today's tech industry. Facebook, Netflix, Spotify all depend on and profit from open standards to this day. Ironically, these same tech giants that benefit from open standards increasingly push for walled gardens, proprietary APIs, and closed ecosystems.

Bootstrappers / SaaS founders: Are paid ads working for you at all? Everyone I know who has recently experimented with Adwords, Facebook Ads, Reddit Ads, and LinkedIn Ads has said the results were "meh." (At @Transistor.fm we've never done paid acquisition, so I'm curious if anything is working)