You keep using that word…
2Meh doesn’t do ad spots. It’s how they keep that shit cheap. So when they do, they’re always asking for it for cheap.
So my stuff is expensive now thanks to daring fireball? Or the ad isn’t really a cigar?
/giphy math woman
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Feh. He’s a blogger with a pretty high opinion of himself and his feed’s value, from what I can see. I infer that he held an auction for “sponsor of the week” in which Meh was either the only bidder or was the high bidder at a ridiculously low bid, and that he was left grouchy over his devaluation.
I have a website, too, and it does about .001% of meh’s volume - when it has some at all. I tried buying ad placements a while back, and my experience taught me that for my site, there was no point in spending that money. (TBH, most of the problem is the site. No, I’m not going to tell you where it is. That would be spamming Meh.)
@werehatrack meh and Daring Fireball go way back https://meh.com/forum/topics/new-rss-feed#545968b6da0ab7840b760cf6
@werehatrack if is not commercial I’m sure no one would mind. Also you got the goat so not random spamming. Might be some web design people who could give pointers. I doubt anyone would mind that much even if it is commercial but a small business.
It you run your own small business you have to have “something” cause these days… Google is the phone book. I go to maps and search for “small business x” in this area of the map. Like if I needed someone to come out and service my well. Or someone to do excavation. A landscaping company to fix the drainage on my drive cause it keeps washing out. Etc etc.
Someone around here just had a bumper sticker for a local fishing shop. I’ve been in there cause I didn’t know they existed until I saw that and I could pull up their website and see where they were/what they were about.
Things that I don’t expect any advertising for local small businesses. Cause I have a problem and I’m looking for you
It’s nice if there is a website for those local type of things. Area we service. Who we are. Contact us at. Even if it’s basic. Cause if there is no site at all when I’m trying to find you. I mean the first thing I do is open the websites that I can find. Might still call everyone i can find in my area but. It’s a leg up
@unksol @werehatrack
You might try angie.com or yelp or even old school yellowpages.com. So far, they’ve been unsuccessful at coming anywhere close to breaking Google’s monopoly on advertising through search results.
DuckDuckGo.com and StartPage.com are alternative search engines, but they’re not as good at finding businesses since they exclude ads and trackers (including Facebook).
See also: https://kinsta.com/blog/alternative-search-engines/
@mike808 @werehatrack I’m more rural than Angie’s list or yellowpages or anything would cover. So obviously if in a city that’s a whole different competitive landscape. And reviews etc. I’m more who in 50 miles might be able to do this thing.
So being searchable is the main thing for me. Then do you have a website is nice. Obviously if you have a lot of competition… Quality of the website might swing things. But not advertising
@werehatrack and just to clarify to me “quality” of the website does not mean is it slick and shiny. To me it means can I get the info I need right off the bat. Do you service my area. Do you do what I need done. Do you do it well. Is it the primary thing you do. How long will it be to get you out to do an estimate. Etc etc. I’m still going to call other people but if you make it easy for me I’m going to call you first.
Not sure if any of that is useful and I’ve never run a business. That’s just how I think when I’m hunting for someone with no word of mouth. And in a rural area.
@unksol
In my case, the business is not so much small as microscopic. It doesn’t have a physical retail location, so there’s no brick and mortar to pimp. It sells merch at conventions and similar events, and I have a line of that merch that the website lists online, with rudimentary online purchase capabilities enabled. The site has been around for probably 20 years at this point, and I still haven’t gotten around to putting an actual shopping cart on it because it has never generated enough traffic to completely convince me that that the effort would be worthwhile. I have watched as similar-sized operations and larger ones have come and gone in the meantime, after spending what must have been significant effort and perhaps money on web development that clearly didn’t pan out. Some of them were friends of mine. I have put into mine that which it supports.
@werehatrack
@lisaviolet has a small website I can order catnip from. I don’t think posting what you do with a link is spamming… Or trying to advertise. Obviously actually spending money to advertise would not be a good plan.
Posting a topic that is “hey come check out my business” is spammy. But I’m pretty sure it’s ok to tell us what you do and share a link cause we asked/are curious
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@lisaviolet @unksol
Over the (too many) years, I have become even more wary of taking advantage of opportunities than I have become reticent about mixing business, even at the most casual and apparently innocent level, with personal stuff outside of my own life - where the dividing line is so blurred as to be simultaneously Heisenbergian and Schrodingerate. I can know where it was, or what it was doing at the time, but trying to find out will automatically collapse into a worst case scenario.
Back when I had Real Jobs, it became something of a gruesome running joke that if I ordered business cards, I’d only use about a twentieth of the box before they’d become obsolete. I still have precisely one copy of the small set that was given to me by VWoA when I won their second-highest dealership parts manager performance award - which preceded being fired by their own hand-picked dealership head less than a year later when they bought out the point to create their first company store. I never went back.
@lisaviolet @unksol @werehatrack
: )
/giphy CAT
Lol I’ve never heard of him so it’s more an advertisement for him then meh. But that is the kind of advertisement I’d like.
That isn’t a bad description of the Meh community, especially the last 3 items on the list.
@algae1221 I mean I’m not Mac but in general lol
@unksol I’m not a Mac user or designer. Just a sarcastic nitpicking perfectionist.
@algae1221 @unksol
As a mehtizen, thank you for the complement.
Is no one seeing the bottom left?
“Go to meh.com of you want. They don’t give a shit”
@unksol
I figured that this was the clue that Meh had been the embarrassingly low “high” bidder for this week’s Ad Spot In The Lower Left Corner.
@werehatrack lol I just expect that would be the meh message they paid for. We are here. If you don’t want to bother fuck it