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Many business owners learned this in the Groupon days. Offering a steep discount would fill your gym or coffee shop with coupon chasers and *discourage* repeat customers. You want the regulars, not the people chasing a quick fad.
Scaling Fast
Swizec Teller
I try to my make my posts *mostly* correct, and I’ve gotten a bit better at that over time.
My main strategy here is to just add qualifiers like “My understanding is..” or “I think..” before statements that I’m not totally sure of. This saves a lot of time fact checking statements that I’m honestly not sure how to fact check most of the time.
Some Blogging Myths
Julia Evans
If the soil is fertile in food or minerals, if rivers offer an easy avenue of exchange, if the coast-line is indented with natural harbors for a commercial fleet, if, above all, a nation lies on the highroad of the world’s trade, like Athens or Carthage, Florence or Venice—then geography, though it can never create it, smiles upon civilization, and nourishes it.
The Story of Civilization, Vol. 1: Our Oriental Heritage
Will Durant
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