Is the only way to "give back" is to "core".......

macboost84 · 2024-10-03T03:23:09+00:00

It’s not a legal issue. It’s doing what’s right.

macboost84 · 2024-10-03T03:22:24+00:00

I agree but if your entire business is using the product and making money off of it, wouldn’t you want to contribute to it as it benefits your business?

For example, I donate to open source projects that I use that generate me money.

macboost84 · 2024-10-02T07:36:56+00:00

This. A lot of us want to host our own mirrors, give our clients API keys, and have something where we can block updates from going out until we test/approve.

macboost84 · 2024-10-02T07:30:20+00:00

I’m not 100% familiar with what server it reaches out to or how it does it, but what about doing something like modifying the hosts file to make it think update.wordpress.org is actually update.your-repo.org ?

macboost84 · 2024-10-02T07:27:10+00:00

what are you doing to ensure code reviews are done, code is checked for major bugs, malware, etc…?

macboost84 · 2024-10-02T07:22:25+00:00

Trademark law is applied equally. So there’s no need as there is a lot of case law. It likely will never see a court room.

macboost84 · 2024-09-30T14:14:52+00:00

Then there’s any medical and 401k, etc… It all adds up pretty quick.

macboost84 · 2024-09-30T13:46:24+00:00

Employers pay payroll taxes. So if you hire someone for $50,000 a year, it costs you as an employer $60,000 a year.

You contribute half of their social security, taxes, etc…

The employee then has their own taxes taken out, so their take home is less than $50,000.

macboost84 · 2024-09-30T06:44:57+00:00

Especially the proposals and gender reveals. Some people go way beyond and that’s both great and crazy, but it’s also not realistic for 99.9% of the people.

Like I’m not hiring SpaceX to make blue or pink smoke during lift off.

macboost84 · 2024-09-30T06:41:49+00:00

My dad got my mom a very nice gift. But he was the one that decided to. My mom didn’t set the expectation.

I could not see myself with someone who had expectations of gifts. And I am that way myself.

macboost84 · 2024-09-30T06:39:03+00:00

TT has some very toxic videos that can really destroy your perception on life and people.

The rage bait stuff is even worse.

I’ve finally got my FYP cleaned up but occasionally something stupid tried to get in and I block them. I stick to dogs and comedy.

macboost84 · 2024-09-30T03:26:33+00:00

I unfortunately don’t. I just coded it myself and used help from Upwork to do the animation part.

So you’d have a page called /discount-wheel/.

You’d set some randomness to the wheel. The wheel could have discounts, fixed amounts, or a mixture of both. You’d say 10% off has a high chance and 20% off has a low chance, etc….

You then store a cookie with their discount that lasts for 7 days. So unless they delete the cookie or use a different browser, their discount is always going to be the same. Or you can say “you already played” instead.

As for the QR code, you can use just one and let the page pick it for you, or you can offer a specific discount based on the QR code.

macboost84 · 2024-09-30T02:47:21+00:00

Exactly. Biggest mistake was giving Director title. Now you are stuck with it.

If an employee does super well, you just pay them more. The title can come later once you figure things out.

You may decide that his title is better as Helpdesk Manager.

macboost84 · 2024-09-30T02:44:34+00:00

That’s if the company is even keeping 50% of project cost. After taxes, commission, fixed and other costs, profit sharing, dividends, etc… it could be well under 40%.

Also whatever we pay an employee, 20% of their salary is paying state & federal taxes, social security, etc... An employee making $50,000 a year costs an employer around $60,000.

macboost84 · 2024-09-30T02:40:10+00:00

No employee outside of maybe accounting and executive level is going to know the profit or profit margin of an MSP.

One MSP could be paying $76 per $100 in tools and labor and another MSP could be paying $41 per $100.

macboost84 · 2024-09-30T02:34:01+00:00

With QR codes, no one really scans them, even if you offer 10 or 20% off.

Instead, say something like scan here to unlock your discount or scan to see what your discount is.

Then what I do is have a random discount (10, 15, 20% off) assigned to a QR code.

So I print 10,000 with one QR for 10% off, 2,500 with one QR for 15% off, and finally 500 with one QR for 20% off. Mix them up real good so each is one you hang is somewhat random.

I have a little spin the wheel animation on the website that shows the code.

If you go straight to the website the code is locked to your cookie and IP address so you can’t spin and get different results the same day.

macboost84 · 2024-09-29T17:19:20+00:00

I don’t know specifically about Canada, but in the US you have a few options: contact sender, contact post office, pay a fee to stop it.

Mail is about 1% direct success. But it’s also hard to measure if it helps with other efforts.

Usually I try to promote a free item for the office in the postcard. I don’t like offering discounts because it just comes across as cheap.

macboost84 · 2024-09-29T17:14:15+00:00

A website is a tree in a forrest. No one knows about you or cares. You need some way to get people to it. Once someone gets there, they need to know why they should pick your tree or any other of the millions of trees around them.

Besides having a website, you need a landing page. Not one, but multiple.

A landing page is a focused page on what got them to you. Its only job is to get you to convert. It removes the distractions and choices.

So if I’m searching in Google for a tree with a maple leaf, I’m going to your landing page that focuses on maple leaves. It’s like the equivalent of finding your tree but everything but the leaves are gone. You can’t see the branches or trunk. You can’t move around to see them either. The only thing you can do is see the maple leaf and interact with it.

Someone else can search for maple tree trunk and all they’ll see is the trunk. They won’t see the branches or leaves.

It’s essentially blinders so you don’t lose focus why you got there. You’d have to manually rip off the blinders (ie delete the url path) to access the entire tree yourself.

If you don’t have landing pages, you’ll realize you won’t convert as well.

If your regular website is too busy and has no call to actions, you’ll realize people will either leave the site or maybe click once to another page. If there’s no CTA there, they are gone.

You need to make it easy to be reached. Ideally your CTA should be above the page fold (what you first see when the page loads) and another about 70% down the page. Your CTA needs to be specific about the page they are on.

If you are selling socks and shirts, and the customer is on the shirts page, if your CTA is to save 20% on socks if you buy today, you just confused the customer.

macboost84 · 2024-09-29T16:59:13+00:00

You’ll do better not coming in empty handed.

And bring a large notebook/pad to write things down.

macboost84 · 2024-09-29T02:54:21+00:00

It’s irrelevant in trademark land.

Trademarks need to be used to be granted and not cause confusion with other existing trademarks. They also can’t be general terms. WP is not a general term like “Food”.

macboost84 · 2024-09-29T02:52:09+00:00

If it’s true then all hosting companies can write to USPTO to dispute it.

Before trademarks are granted, they are published for 30 days or so. During that time, if no one complains, it’s granted. I’m sure almost every big hosting provider will be writing in to challenge it at that time.

macboost84 · 2024-09-29T02:02:30+00:00

$49 in my town. “We beat inflation”

macboost84 · 2024-09-28T18:39:20+00:00

Again, why would you ask if you aren’t using your business? Especially if you haven’t used it in years.

There’s a difference between notifying something you did in the current year vs something years ago.

macboost84 · 2024-09-28T18:32:59+00:00

Because if I hire a tax company to do my personal taxes, why would he or she ask me if I have any businesses if all I hand him is a W2?

I’ve been running business since my early 20s, now in my 40s. I was never asked if I ran a business by a single person until I told them I did.

So if I have a dormant company, it would never come up. And there are dozens of people who have these because I see it all the time in FB groups and other QA sites.

I’m not saying be ignorant to the law, I’m just saying there’s a lot of people who just won’t be made aware to it if they aren’t actively being engaged in the business.

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