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I just noticed that "Entreprenerd: Marketing <for> Programmers" is free as well on your website. Nice!

> A modern web-marketing book that outlines a multi-modal system for growing a website with SEO, Google AdWords/Facebook Ads, Conversion Optimisation, Copywriting/Classic Persuasion/Behavioural Psychology, Google Analytics, Statistical Significance, Email Marketing, and Remarketing. When I launched my first web application it started off with zero traffic. This obviously was not satisfactory so I started a private Berlin-based marketing group with local marketing consultants and tech company owners. During these sessions, I was privy to tactics from marketers working with companies like Goldman Sachs, Amazon Audible, Delivery Hero, ResearchGate, etc. To balance things out, I also conferred with people active in the darker side of internet marketing, like guys running shady coupon sites or selling fitness ebooks. This book is the product of what I learned from these sessions and my own experiments.

Book looks awesome. I guess the hardest thing is naming things and I would think you should put in a subtitle to the book that would describe that it has technical information too (Practical and Business issues you will find creating web apps). At first I expected some kind of fluffy book but you have an incredible amount of detail in this!
Unreadable on the mobile + no reader mode support for safari. Such a pity :(
Thanks for pointing the problem out. I only tested the site on my Android but not on iOS.

Is there any chance you (or someone else) could send me a screenshot so I can figure out what's wrong? Imgur (or equivalent) link or an email to jack (dot) kinsella (at) gmail (dot) com

Made some changes – should have a larger font on iPhone and (hopefully) be reader mode compatible?
This just reaffirms my beleif that a large swath of CTO's aren't doing their jobs as they should be. Having seen the inside of many companies, the ones with the most issues were ones were the CTO would rather be a programmer than be the bridge between IT and the C's and the board. Now, this seems like a well written book with good points, but I don't see a single CTO level reference (other than the payment providers section) to the business and business politics side, which is what is underserved and underrepresented in the boardroom.

The claim here is that this person became an unintential "CTO", and frankly context clues indicate to me their role was anything but. The roles of CTO/CIO are the most misunderstood by the industry in my opinion, so I guess I can't blame the author too much, but it's a bad use of the title.

(Author here) Fair point and, honestly, I also cringe a bit when people like me describe themselves as CTOs. That said, whether we like it or not, a critical mass in the start-up community has stolen the term and twisted it to mean "the developer with the most responsibility". By using the term in this book, I admit that I sold out and went along with the bastardised meaning for the sake of brevity and my own convenience.
There's a massive difference CTO at a startup CTO at a established company.

The same is true for CEO.

Awesome tips! Particularly like the one about staying behing the version rat race ;)
Man, you're such a talented writer. I got hooked right from the first word and its been a pleasant read.

Couple of questions... Was the note selling industry a niche field at that time ?

Also why do a couple of the articles require FB logins.

Thanks!

The notes-selling niche wasn't particularly special. I just happened to be straight out of college at the time, and I was still thinking students, students, students. So, accidental really.

None of the articles ought to require FB logins... where did you encounter that problem? Two pieces are hosted externally as part of a guest-blogging effort so perhaps those websites have put up log-in walls...

Awesome articles, thanks! I also found the facebook issue. I am using an ipad, if I tap anywhere in the actual articles, it shows a "share with facebook" dialog (preventing me to follow any of the links in the internal pages). I guess some kind of social sharing plugin is invisibly out of bounds.
thanks – that was exactly the problem and I was able to find the bug with Chrome's responsive inspector mode.

Should be fixed now?

I would upvote this more than once if I could. I can't thank you enough for this. It looks amazing. Let me know if you have a PayPal or some other way I can buy you a drink to say thanks for all your time and effort on this.
#13. What is the point of writing all those units tests if you are still wasting people's time with unnecessary deprecation and patches?
Is there a version for Kindle?
No yet, but I plan on creating one. If you sign up to my mailing list on jackkinsella.ie I will announce it there.
Seems like this book is mainly about the author stumbling around due to lack of fundamental understanding and skills. It is awesome that he has been able to get stuff to work despite being a beginner. No amount of experience hacking things together will result in any true real progress, until he learns the basics he will be stuck in beginner trial & error mode each time he gets stuck.

It costs less to take the time to learn or pay a competent professional, than it does to stumble around in the dark. Taking the time to build the core competencies needed to solve simple stuff is more impressive than getting something to work despite not knowing what is going on.

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And what are some of the core competencies given that there is sooooo much to learn when you are a one man shop?
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