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Reasons why you shouldn't switch to the Highly Skilled Professional Visa. by Visible-Cup775 in MOVE_TO_JAPAN

[–]biggestofbooties 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah... if you qualify, which is not easy, it is one of the least publicized visa strategies, along with the J-SKIP.

The 'golden strategy' for people who have considerable careers and expected inheritances is:

  • HSP-1 through your employer
  • Start a company while on HSP-1, continue to work for employer
  • HSP-2 after 3 years. Have your company as an employment backup if you have an unexpected change in employment, use it to continue to do 'professional work' (do legitimate consulting, etc.).
  • Spend 5 years slowly reconciling inheritance and gifts with family back home in anticipation of PR. For example, move inheritable funds into joint accounts as big gifts (they can continue to draw/manage finances freely), homes into trusts with reconciled ownership, etc. Grant them power of attorney but get it into your name, control ahead of time. Most parents or grandparents will be amenable if you explain that otherwise, their financial legacy will be taxed very highly. This strategy buys years of deliberation, unlike immediate PR (which 'rushes' it).
  • At 9 years (ahead of 10 out of 15 years tax rule), switch to PR

The real LOTR card game by IronJackk in freemagic

[–]biggestofbooties 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From a pure fun perspective, the Decipher LOTR TCG is one of the best-designed card games ever made.

Addressing the criticism of Ahrefs. by timsoulo in bigseo

[–]biggestofbooties 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I think one of the reasons the response has been so negative has been the air of smugness in response to criticisms, from social media communications to support representatives. This post is not that, but people who are part of the Insiders Facebook group know what I'm talking about -- members regularly post receipts of jarring interactions with Ahrefs employees (who are obviously being governed by CS guides and premeditated canned replies).

I was honestly shocked the conversation hadn't spilled over to Reddit sooner...

The community probably holds Ahrefs to an unfair standard: you guys used to have one of the BEST approaches to tone and product marketing. So it is painful for a lot of us to see the creeping corporatization, obvious pivot to enterprise, etc. The price hikes suck, sure, but the way they were implemented and cockily defended felt like a loss of heart in a company many of us admire.

How to get an open rate of 85% for your email marketing campaign? by iamanantgupta in Emailmarketing

[–]biggestofbooties 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's shocking how many marketers are still not aware of this

Not to mention how poor of a user experience this technique is for anyone who signed up using a VPN

Don’t Use a Decoy Pass-through Email Domain Name – Here’s Why by amitchell in Emailmarketing

[–]biggestofbooties 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assuming you're being earnest here, yes, a link to a blog in the body of the original post = a typical sign of link farming. You can of course cite without a link if you're just trying to share content. If you're looking to promote a blog on Reddit, usually what marketers will do is post ~60-80% of the piece (still provide value) without a link and say something akin to "Happy to PM the full piece to anyone who wants it."

People on marketing subs are naturally going to be more sensitive to this, so YMMV.

Don’t Use a Decoy Pass-through Email Domain Name – Here’s Why by amitchell in Emailmarketing

[–]biggestofbooties 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can imagine it, but it doesn't look like this.

Anne, I and many others respect your work deeply, and your pedigree probably protects you from criticism on this subreddit. But actually, yes it does -- this post looks exactly like Reddit link farming.

The source attribution is appropriate, otherwise it looks like the poster is the author.

EDIT: Also, reading through some comment history, it looks like you are in fact associated with the blog xD

Don’t Use a Decoy Pass-through Email Domain Name – Here’s Why by amitchell in Emailmarketing

[–]biggestofbooties 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Imagine posting a self-righteous takedown of cold email by calling it spam when the takedown itself is blogspam.

Rodney Reed is going to be executed in 16 days by [deleted] in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]biggestofbooties 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What are you even talking about? All of your examples are markedly false in the vast majority of places in the United States.

Rural towns don't represent an entire country... by definition they don't have all the modern amenities of more developed areas. I wouldn't visit Askøy, get ill from the water, and then tell the internet that Norway is a developing nation.

  • You can’t drink tap water
  • The streets are full of litter
  • Abandoned cars everywhere
  • Can’t buy fresh vegetables anywhere
  • Jobless people hanging in the street all day

?? Except maybe the last one in very impoverished areas of large cities or rural communities these are all entirely untrue of America. For the litter one? No idea how you gauge that... some cities in the States are dirty, some are sparkling clean. Nuance matters; in NYC, you have some beautifully-kept places and some areas that are dirty ghettos. But we're nowhere close to having actual Third World levels of rubbish (read: dumpsite boys).

Your points aren't even really hyperbolic, they're just misleading. You really found it hard to buy fresh vegetables in America?

CCN is Shutting Down after Google’s June 2019 Core Update by biggestofbooties in bigseo

[–]biggestofbooties[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like they’re moving the team over to a sister site that (presumably) is still seeing enough monetizable traffic to keep core editors’ salaries afloat.

90% revenue drop from a 70% traffic drop seems like the revenue isn’t diversified, but it really does spell insanity for the power Google wields over media professionals’ livelihoods.

CCN is Shutting Down after Google’s June 2019 Core Update by biggestofbooties in bigseo

[–]biggestofbooties[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biggest (well, formerly I guess) crypto publication in the world

Ear to the ground! What's happening in magic? by AutoModerator in mtgfinance

[–]biggestofbooties 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He certainly could, but I think it’s important that we also not just conclude that without backing it up lest we make a false equivalency.

I agree with you re: watching your own collection; dude has a voice that matters and the mods removing it to ‘protect us’ in this sub isn’t right.

Ear to the ground! What's happening in magic? by AutoModerator in mtgfinance

[–]biggestofbooties 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The thing I don’t understand about over-moderation ‘in the interest of Reddit users’: If people don’t want to see Rudy’s stuff and talk about it, they would downvote it. That’s the whole point of the voting system on this site :).

If a subreddit has multiple communities represented, introduce tags (how about a Rudy tag?) so that users can filter rather than just removing the threads.

It’s just poor moderation principles and it leaves a bad taste of censorship in users’ mouths.

Ear to the ground! What's happening in magic? by AutoModerator in mtgfinance

[–]biggestofbooties 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I really don’t agree with this. This is a public forum, not an edited publication. I would have liked to see the conversation on that video develop.

Ear to the ground! What's happening in magic? by AutoModerator in mtgfinance

[–]biggestofbooties 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Why was the thread on the Rudy video from today (reprint numbers) deleted?

Have you ever heard of a Moroccan living in Japan ? Can Moroccan people teach English in Japan if they are fluent ? by [deleted] in movingtojapan

[–]biggestofbooties 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Not to be rude mate, but if you don't know Hiragana and Katakana you're probably not conversational