![]() The last thing from our minds when we launched Robinhood, the initial website, was that it would blow up overnight, so we were kind of cavalier in the way we approached it. It will take a while until you can find the right frequency of posting. Of course the early ones barely drove any traffic and only very gradually did things improve, I think that’s very important to understand. Within the space of around 9 months, I wrote around 150 guest posts. It’s been something that was very gradual though. Here is more on this number, a bit before we hit the 100,000. Solely through guest blogging we’ve acquired around 100,000 users within the first 9 months of running Buffer. That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph (Netflix) We were months from launch, but he was planting seeds that would pay off.big time. Posing as a home theater enthusiast or cinephile, he would join the conversation in communities geared toward DVD fanatics and movie buffs, befriend the major players, and slowly, over time, alert the most respected commenters, moderators, and website owners about this great new site called Netflix. He wouldn't announce himself as a Netflix employee. Corey's plan was to infiltrate these communities. He'd realized, early on, that the only way to find DVD owners was in the fringe communities of the internet: user groups, bulletin boards, web forums, and all of the other digital watering holes where enthusiasts met up. ![]() A one-time English major at Berkely, he was a brilliant writer with a gift for creating characters. To help us connect further with customers, we brought in Corey Bridges to work on customer acquisition – or, more specifically, on something we jokingly called Black ops. ![]()
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