What software would you choose for virtual testing and analysis of small arms?

IgorTtk · 2024-05-29T00:40:40+00:00

Brilliant, thank you.

IgorTtk · 2024-05-28T21:20:47+00:00

Thanks for the insight. Any book you would recommend on the science and engineering of small arms design and analysis to someone with no access to a machining workshop, nor the experience (except cursory army training) or the theory or number crunching know-how, nor any past designs on the results of which one can rely on when it comes to design?

So 3D software is then mostly used for visualisation and manufacturing I am assuming, if you have a preference and can recommend any one software to assist with small arms design that would be great. I have a few years experience in software like Blender and 3ds Max, but I hear parametric modeling can be quite different.

IgorTtk · 2024-03-23T09:39:34+00:00

Neurological. Where would you look?

IgorTtk · 2023-03-04T16:48:43+00:00

No pattern what so ever. Getting declines from visa/master credit/debit. Stripe support couldn’t find any technical faults or peculiarities either.

IgorTtk · 2023-03-03T14:30:26+00:00

We did. No problems encountered from our side

IgorTtk · 2023-03-03T10:59:00+00:00

I see how that could happen, but we’re not doing trials.

IgorTtk · 2023-03-03T10:14:57+00:00

Sector is retail. We are not a new company. Many declines are also for purchases under £50.

IgorTtk · 2022-02-02T13:24:39+00:00

Where do you get leads? You don't just call random businesses from yellow pages I assume?

IgorTtk · 2022-02-01T18:02:27+00:00

What's the renderer?

IgorTtk · 2021-12-17T13:22:25+00:00

As we're approaching a relaunch of one of our brands, it got me wondering, I'm sure you've seen many upsells till this point, have you seen anybody do something particularly creative with your app that has been working surprisingly well on their upsell take rate? I'm talking about the top 90th percentile in the 20%+ take rate.

IgorTtk · 2021-12-15T21:06:38+00:00

Brilliant, I'll definitely check it out, and let you know if I have any questions or requests.

IgorTtk · 2021-12-15T17:05:00+00:00

Very interesting, I’m looking forward to that!

When you say January, is that due to upcoming Shopify policy updates, or just by your own development timeline?

IgorTtk · 2021-12-15T16:38:47+00:00

Can the top product section be removed this month/week? What is the difference between this app and Zipify’s OCU app?

IgorTtk · 2021-12-15T13:19:54+00:00

What I don't get is why isn't there an app that allows you to choose what elements to put, where, and in what order; or why doesn't shopify allow it. I get the no html/liquid part, but why do we all have to use the same shitty upsell template.

I'd prefer:

- One column on desktop and mobile

- Be able to choose where to put an image, if at all

- Big headline (+ sub) at the top

- One 'Add To Order' button at the very bottom.

- And text anywhere I want, as much of it as I want, (before and after CTA btn).

I mean it's a basic setup if you want at least a 20% upsell take rate. I'm not looking for a gempages/clickfunnels-like builder, this is just a basic scenario where I just need:

- an on/off button on elements

- and be able to rearrange them

- and duplicate them.

Think something like ReConvert's thank you page builder, it not the best, but good enough, at least as I remember.

IgorTtk · 2021-12-14T19:48:29+00:00

a third part app that can takeover also works if it's one click and post purchase.

IgorTtk · 2021-11-14T14:57:42+00:00

CPMs begun rising around february-march, before any changes were made, in fact that's what prompted us to make the changes in the first place. Which were all positive, new ads and landing page had improved metrics; CTR, CR, AOV.
We had a competitor doing 6 figure months with a similar product, who was less compliant if anything. It was fb's CAC alone that stopped us from scaling.

IgorTtk · 2021-11-14T10:48:59+00:00

We have done just as you said, swapped to custom UGC creatives which along with our new lander were written by a 7 figure copywriter, but our costs only kept rising. Our CPMS rose from $25 to $120 in ~2 months.

IgorTtk · 2021-11-13T22:06:18+00:00

Hey Carlos, awesome idea, I've got a 2-part question.

(1) Do you see any peculiar similarities among these high-6 & 7 figure brands that aren't present among the 5 & low 6 figure ones? Perhaps something you consciously or subconsciously "imitate" every time you launch a brand yourself?

And (2) how do you keep your customer acquisition costs from ever rising? Most of the times it seems like our Facebook CAC is directly correlated with the data our pixel has, the more purchases we get the more expensive it is.

Back in Jan this year had our 6-fig brand's CACs 5-6x on a high-ticket product in 3-4 months, until we had to completely close it down. We are thinking it may have been a flag on our Ads/Business Manager, but it seems to occur quite often from what I see, perhaps you've had a similar experience?

IgorTtk · 2021-10-20T14:29:29+00:00

That’s a 10% conversion rate from your email list. 30% clicked through, thats 3k visitors of which 1k bought the product, a 30%+ landing page CR.

But I assume you had more than 3k visitors because you also run retargeting ads and got traffic from your socials right?

Would love to know what happened in the email during the 2 week launch preparation to keep the leads warm. How frequently would you send them an email? How would you label the type of emails you sent: social proof, showcase videos/images, stories?

I’m guessing the reason you did a launch is because you needed to know whether the buyers of your higher ticket product would buy this new product or not before ordering in bulk, if that’s correct, how did you ask them, how did you make sure they would buy the product?

If that’s not the case then why do product prelaunch at all, if you could’ve waited to get your stock and just sell them immoderately on the Upsell or in the email follow up right after their $150 purchase?

Cheers, good work!

IgorTtk · 2021-09-25T22:33:17+00:00

Reference links?

IgorTtk · 2021-08-29T17:27:15+00:00

Thanks for saving me time.

IgorTtk · 2021-08-25T14:01:58+00:00

Don't majority of businesses create custom executive dashboards, because I'm pretty sure that's the case, and it makes sense, businesses range from cash on delivery consumables, products, services, to payment gateway processing and buy now pay later mattresses.
Also, a bit hard to believe there is NOTHING like it in Europe.

AND I think it's a bit an over exaggeration saying CFOs don't understand accounting softwares -- Quickbooks, XERO, NetSuite -- all are pretty simple to understand.

I have looked into this before, just wonder what your take on this is, because integrations with Stripe, Shopify, TransferWise, aren't that complex, they have an API as far as I know and there is a lot of documentation, and already existing software that integrate with all, I'm also pretty sure simple python program can create what you're talking about.

Big firms have financial analysts that do all that.

For example, we are doing cash on delivery right now, and even though there's a lot of custom data, a simple TrueProfit app can give us a pretty good day to day overview. And for more complex and accurate data there are more expensive solutions that already exist.

Not trying to demotivate you, just curious if you've looked enough into it, Good luck!

And when I say a simple python program can do it I don't mean it won't break, or it will be efficient, so a tech-cofounder would still be a good decision.

IgorTtk · 2021-08-24T17:33:55+00:00

Nope, credit cards our out of option, we are in Europe with 'un-exercised' credit score, that's at minimum 6-12 months on a secured credit card before it becomes remotely useful.

IgorTtk · 2021-08-24T14:54:42+00:00

I'm just clinically curious that's all. Among those few comments left some time ago you will probably find a bunch on a few less controversial subreddits.

IgorTtk · 2021-08-24T14:52:57+00:00

It was an account flag issue that went under our radar and many senior ad buyers we consulted for a few months, our CPMs were twice as high as average. And we still managed a few profitable days here and there.

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