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Thanks!


I never explored Spanish trends/account but it would be an interesting experiment to see how they perform. Thanks for the feedback!


thanks!


Will check out Calibre. Appreciate the feedback!

You can get the PDF downloadable link here: first100.yobenlee.com.

Will work on EPUB/MOBI formats!


Please do those formats. Many read on iBooks and pdf is hard to work with. I also tried calibre on the PDF, but that doesn't produce a good output. Thanks for this.


Already pinged my designer. If you want to opt-in on my page, I’ll make sure we push these formats before the holidays! Thanks for the feedback.


Awesome


EPUB formats have been pushed live on my page!


In the meantime, you can use the export from GDocs to get an epub format.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/104qgagSsp2rQQEDORGbYC0uq...


Awesome!


Appreciate your perspective. Which portfolio site are you referring to?



Never heard of him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


swaggyBoatswain's comment is responding to csytan's comment, not your post.


Ah...sorry lads! couldn't tell on mobile :-)


> sorry lads

Come on, we can do better than that. This isn't an ol' boys club.


In Ireland "lads" is (weirdly to British people) gender neutral and is used by men and women to refer to mixed groups of people.

I don't know if itsbenlee is Irish or in Ireland.


"Lads" is an appropriate, albeit very british, way of addressing men, which the poster above was doing. Why the noise?


Little disappointed to be so downvoted for calling this out; I don't really do it very often. Also a brit, but I didn't know that the others in the conversation were men. It's pretty easy to use `guys` instead.


I didn't downvote you.

But it was a short comment intended to convey "Oops! Sorry. My bad." So you basically replied to an apology with a suggestion that the apology had committed some greater sin.

My feeling is that probably falls under the heading "Throwing the baby out with the bathwater." I don't think it qualifies as a Best Practice for improving the social climate on some metric or other.

That's not intended to lecture you. I'm just trying to make conversation on a topic I find interesting. Given the nature of the beast, I'm having very mixed feelings about commenting at all.


"Guys" is just as gender-specific as "lads".


The defence was it was a Britishism, where guys is gender neutral.


I don't understand your post/replies. Do you have a problem with people using britishisms? The "defence" spelling is also a britishism, so I'm not sure where you're going with all that.

"Guys" is not any more gender neutral than "Lads" (they both are often used in a gender-neutral way, but they're etymologically male). "Folks" is what I personally use if I specifically want something gender-neutral, but "lads" is definitely appropriate if the author is speaking to men.

Which brings me back to "this is a lot of noise for nothing".


Literally the first definition of "guy" is "a man". "Guy" is only gender neutral when you're referring to a group of people.


Why not address all readers, instead of only men?


The poster above was not addressing readers, but rather three specific people.


Apparently you can use 'guys' now instead


If you could deliver more value at a lower cost than your competitor (without sacrificing your profits of course), I don’t see why you couldn’t compete.

Short answer: let the data do the talking. How big is the market? Have you driven paid/organic traffic to a landing page? Have you tested any funnels? Have you gotten feedback your prospective customers?

You can do all these things with a minimal investment.


It doesnt even need to be lower cost, if they understand the business. We compete with a lot of startups (im not at a startup) that build their entire case on 'you are our entire client base, whatever you want, we can build' where our approach has to weigh up all client requests and build towards what we think the best overall solution is going to be.

For those clients its beneficial to them to go to someone new that will cater to their exact wants


Thanks!


Appreciate it! I'll be pushing some bonus material next week. Here's how to get on the list yobenlee.com -> Read My Book


We built our own for our consultancy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qicebedl_X4


Do you have plans to allow others to use this?


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