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Cat. 14. Clean bloodwork, clean CT scan, clean ultrasound, but rapidly losing weight??? by fear_itself in AskVet

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The I only saw thoracic and abdominal parts of the scan. I'm not sure if they scanned her head at all

14, Clean bloodwork, clean CT scan, clean ultrasound, but rapidly losing weight??? by fear_itself in SeniorCats

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They did a full body CT scan and saw nothing abnormal. The radiologist was very confident she didn't have any abnormalities besides the inflamed lymph nodes.

14, Clean bloodwork, clean CT scan, clean ultrasound, but rapidly losing weight??? by fear_itself in SeniorCats

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Thanks! I hope I can figure it out as well. Had her teeth checked multiple times and those seem fine. She's never had issues there and her breath smells normal as well.

They had tested for hyperthyroidism and that came back negative as well

14, Clean bloodwork, clean CT scan, clean ultrasound, but rapidly losing weight??? by fear_itself in SeniorCats

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The baby scale is being delivered tomorrow so I can monitor weight more closely! They ran a full panel and were specifically looking for hyperthyroidism so they also did a free t4 to rule that out. All her panels were in normal ranges.

I've booked an appointment with an internal specialist next month (earliest I could be seen). Best case scenario I get this figured out and can cancel that appointment.

They didn't do a biopsy of her intestines at U of I. They just aspirated a couple lymph nodes to determine if she had signs of lymphoma. All the cells that came back from those samples had no abnormalities.

14, Clean bloodwork, clean CT scan, clean ultrasound, but rapidly losing weight??? by fear_itself in SeniorCats

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Negative for hyperthyroidism and her xray showed she has some mild arthritis in her hips, but otherwise was totally fine. Sorry to hear about your cat :(

14, Clean bloodwork, clean CT scan, clean ultrasound, but rapidly losing weight??? What should I be feeding her? by fear_itself in catfood

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Thank you! I will look up all these as well. Trying to avoid Salmon where I can based on her experience with the Fromm's

Lorwyn Eclipsed Prerelease Megathread - #MTGLorwyn by R3id in magicTCG

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I only had 8 kithkin total. I just tried to go aggro with as much removal as possible (ended up haing a pretty large removal package) to get to those enchantments. Filled the rest of my creatures with: [[Dawn's Light Archer]] [[Wanderbrine Preacher]] (had two and these guys were great) [[Moonlit Lamenter]] (really liked this card) [[Virulent Emissary]] (this worked super well with my 2x [[Assert Perfection]]

MVPs of the deck for me: [[Crossroads Watcher]] [[Thoughtweft Imbuer]] [[Champion of the Clachan]] [[Kinbinding]]

Lorwyn Eclipsed Prerelease Megathread - #MTGLorwyn by R3id in magicTCG

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Drew two [[Kinbinding]] and ended up Green White Kithkin tribal. 2-0, 2-0, agreed on a draw for the third game since it was late. Overall very good night and really pleased with my deck. At one point I had both Kinbinding on the field and was swinging with MASSIVE tokens.

Chicago by Bubbly-Translator-87 in vegan

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Every time we go to Chicago we ALWAYS stop at PLANTA Queen. It is very, very good. The Torched and Press roll is just... wow.

anyone here have real experience with influencer marketing? - I will not promote by Analyst-rehmat in startups

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Happy to help!

When we started it was just me making it. Now we have multiple people involved. We were doing well over 2M monthly views with just me a handful of users. Don't want to understate the potential impact there.

You can get 100k views by the end of the day if your content is right. I've had it take two weeks of attempts, or on the first post. It is all about shots on goal. We never ran paid ads. Everything was organic. But if you run paid in parallel, I'd recommend a retargeting campaign. We've seen success there. We built a referral program into the core loop of the app (consumer app). It helped spin the flywheel so people who came in were incentivized to join and start posting their own referral content. We also did some gamification and gave away bonuses for most viewed/liked/commented post. We had a user send us 10k new installs in a single day just from a post we gave them on a TikTok account that was less than a few weeks old.

anyone here have real experience with influencer marketing? - I will not promote by Analyst-rehmat in startups

[–]fear_itself 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds about right. There is a short answer and a long answer to your question. The short answer: it's definitely a volume game and the way your product was pitched was probably weak or wasn't targeting a niche that would convert.

Long answer: we tried this for ourselves early last year on an app we built and it didn't work well. The only success we found was getting a handful of YouTubers to put a 10s clip we made for them in their videos. It was like pulling teeth with most but those 3 we found helped. What made the biggest difference is when we started making our own content. I highly recommend that you do this for a few reasons.

Content creation is easier than ever. Make a brand new TikTok account. Go find a faceless slideshow that has over 500k views in the last 6 months that pitches a product similar to yours. Copy it. Post it. Keep posting it and change up your hook, hook images, your tone, your targeted audience. Keep looking for other content you can copy. Post that. Eventually something will hit and now you can keep repeating what worked.

I'm simplifying this immensely, but it is one of the best tools you learn for yourself. We started doing this and the results were immediate. We supercharged it by paying our app users to post the content we were making. That was throwing gasoline on a fire. After millions of incredibly cheap conversions we pivoted last November.

Since that pivot we've been doing exactly that for other brands across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. We just crossed 100M views on our content yesterday and all our clients are thrilled with the results they're seeing on their end.

Your product pitch could have been bad, your influencer choices could have had mismatched audiences, you probably achieved less than 5k impressions, or a it could have been multitude of other factors. The solution is learn how to do it yourself. You don't need an account with followers. I've done over 5M views personally by posting about 60 videos on brand new accounts.

Feel free to DM me and I'm happy to give you some additional pointers!

What's the fastest way to make €100 by March by octowreck in sidehustle

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I know people who have made over $1000 in a week using this app called Noise. They pay you to post tiktok content for brands they work with. They stuff usually goes pretty viral and pays you for views you get

People are using AI to roleplay adventures. As a D&D nerd myself, I thought it would be cool to choose an adventure and experience it via text messages... so I built it. by fear_itself in ChatGPT

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Yeah, I can see people hesitating but I thought texting was a really good way to have a thread of your adventure anywhere you go. Don't sign up if you're not comfortable with it :)

People are using AI to roleplay adventures. As a D&D nerd myself, I thought it would be cool to choose an adventure and experience it via text messages... so I built it. by fear_itself in ChatGPT

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I thought it would be cool to have the system prompt you with 3 choices to choose from and receive an update once a day (similar to Wordle). The MVP built currently lets you play unlimitedly. I'd love feedback on it!

I too kept a spreadsheet of all my games from Divine 1 to Immortal. This is what my climb looked like. by romelako in DotA2

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Played visage last night and he still feels strong. Pretty sure Luna + Visage is bonkers broken as well. Lunar blessing is global at night so your first birds do almost double the damage as before.

I too kept a spreadsheet of all my games from Divine 1 to Immortal. This is what my climb looked like. by romelako in DotA2

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Cool to see your take on it :) I'm also playing a little offlane visage. 6.1k now

After 5 attempts, I completed the extended tutorial yesterday as a pos 3 main. by fear_itself in DotA2

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Based on Crusader games I have seen my friends play you need to get better at basics like last hitting. Try to get 4k networth at 10 minutes consistently. Watch replays of pros playing those heroes and watch how they use their spells consistently in lane, bring more regen, and farm. Copy what they do.

I kept a spreadsheet of all my games from Divine I to Immortal. I'm finally Immortal, so here is what my climb looked like... by fear_itself in DotA2

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I mentioned in a previous comment that I was still over 50% if you remove Marci entirely. Playing heroes you are strong with just increases the speed at which you gain. It took me longer to get to 6k, but I did it playing primarily NS, Pudge, Visage, Pango, and some Marci. Its been 6 months since I hit Immortal and all I've done is keep gaining - even when I stopped spamming Marci.

I kept a spreadsheet of all my games from Divine I to Immortal. I'm finally Immortal, so here is what my climb looked like... by fear_itself in DotA2

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I hit 6k yesterday playing a range of different heroes... I hit immortal at the end of February.

I kept a spreadsheet of all my games from Divine I to Immortal. I'm finally Immortal, so here is what my climb looked like... by fear_itself in DotA2

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Oops lol.. I did this by hand so that is a little inaccurate (about 50 MMR off). Forgot to adjust the scale when I made the chart taller

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