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I've actually contacted the Studio first and they threw the ball back at Valve/Steam :)

Neither even acknowledge the region locking. ( to be fair, customer support doesn't know any of that )

Valve where advertising laws don't apply to you.

http://i.imgur.com/N3dEPjE.jpg

The image above doesn't do justice to how bad the experience is as a customer, the tv show is already released in the US, but they make international customers wait to watch it. ( after buying it as if it was fully released ) and of course customer support tells you to post in the forums for help...

> I truly underestimated the gravity of emails and support requests. As a one man shop, it can grind entire days to a halt.

Same boat - You can make the most detailed image based walk through FAQ tutorial documentation what have you and you'll still have days filled with customer support.

You'll wake up one morning with multiple emails from billing to product support. The more you grow, the more they come.

PS: You're product hit the nail on the head. I've recommended it to a few podcast clients in the past.

It's night and day.

http://i.imgur.com/WW0uF8n.png

Oh yeah, the good cheese is definitely not cheap. Luckily, i'm a cheddar fan and costco has a 3 and 5 year old brick for under $10.

Very interesting article about the subject that touches a lot of the facets of this market.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commen...

"Until last May, it was importing cheaper U.S. milk-protein concentrates as ingredients, displacing domestic milk. It temporarily halted the imports, however, after regulators in Canada created a new class of lower-priced industrial milk destined specifically for cheese and yogurt production. The solution is a stop-gap measure, however, that cannot be sustained without permanent subsidies or raising prices on other dairy products."

Then, in relation to MPC's, here's a snippet from Wikipedia

"In the US dairy farmers are protected from international competitors with a range of measures, including tariffs on imports. MPCs however are not subject to a tariff rate quota, so most MPCs used are imported[citation needed]. “The United States imports of MPCs have doubled in the last five years, and between 2007 and 2008 MPC imports increased 66 percent.”[11] The majority of these imports come from New Zealand, totaling $250 million worth of MPC imported worldwide.[11] US dairy producer groups claim that foreign manufacturers using nonfat dry milk in the production of MPC are circumventing existing quotas on nonfat dry milk.[12][13] Further concern arises as MPCs are largely unregulated.[11]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_protein_concentrate

>No, really. In Canada, the dairy industry is run by a single co-op. That means that all milk and milk-based products must be sourced from the co-op (i.e. your provincial dairy bank).

Number of large dairy processing companies in Quebec: 3 multinationals, Agropur, a cooperative, and Saputo, a private company, both originally from Quebec, and Parmalat, from Italy, process over 80% of the milk

Number of mid-sized dairy processing companies in Quebec: 35 mid-sized companies process 19% of the milk

http://lait.org/en/the-farm-in-action/the-production-scenari...

>Getting good cheese in Canada is expensive and hard.

Quebec’s share of cheese production in Canada: 51%

https://www.fromagesdici.com/repertoire

I've never run out of good cheeses here, maybe outside of Quebec it's harder to get your hands on good cheeses, but here it's everywhere.

I'll concede, we don't have the greatest butter, but as times goes on, they'll wise up, we didn't have real fresh creme before, now we do.

>and my local farmers can be given an opportunity to compete. Until then, the biggest opponents to these deals are farmers. That should make you question their motives.

Our farmers and local food producers deserve more recognition then we give them.

They usually come from long lines of farmers and they've lived the high and lows of market prices due to globalization, i don't think they want to go back to having to guess how much the price of their milk will be or if there's going to be a shortage or if they'll be able afford to feed their cows anymore. Co-op's aren't a perfect solution, but the free market is an impossible utopia.

Work for hire means that the artist transfers ownership, they can't even use it in their portfolio's unless the work for hire contract states otherwise. They can also modify,deface,butcher it without needing the artists consent.

I've lost count of companies & individuals ripping off our illustrations and reselling them bundled into their templates.

Especially on a $9 template, the odds of them being properly licensed at that price point, I'd be surprised.

In this case, the author mentions it's an editorial piece for a magazine. ( https://dribbble.com/shots/1553377-Changing-Homes )

>Time for me to think/ask an advertiser about what he wants (i.e. ability to login and see impression/click counts, etc.) and what the CPM rate(s) should be.

The problem is often that we can't guarantee the stats like google does. (for clicks) That's why i either sell a guaranteed minimum impressions per month or a flat CPM rate.

Still track the impressions and clicks, but only as a indicator or email them reports to save the hassle of managing credentials.

>So, I'm selling a watch on WatchUSeek, I visit your site, pay $20 to get listed in the featured row on the watches category for a week.

>I'm still scratching my head on the gun section though since it's very poplar but I can't run AdSense in that category

Popular gun forums are on the same boat and that's why their side-bars are filled with advertisers/affiliates/sponsors. Just contact those with your numbers on the sub-section, i'm sure you'll sell out quickly.

Your website has a lot of potential for targeted advertising.

Instead, try reaching out to content creators and sponsor reviews / let's play's of your game. There's plenty of mobile friendly Youtube Channels that would be happy to get sponsored to promote a quality game.

He contacted me trough one of my websites and offered me his services. I already knew him before he contacted me ( through his app ) so i offered him to buy out his application that wasn't doing so well.

We made an initial call, I've pitched him several different structures of compensation and let him come up with a price for his app that he was happy with, then struck a deal the following day.

There's a few reasons the reason it got done so quickly, we both had worked with the same people within the niche.

I've also explained to him my strategy upfront to get the app back on the road, so that probably helped.

You just need to find the right match.

It is possible - It's just difficult.

You have to set yourself realistic expectations of what you'll get out of it in the end.

I've recently bought a dev's app and kept him on board with a % share of ad revenue. ( + cash milestones until the advertising revenue is significant enough )

Just need to find the right person.

Could probably get a few bucks out of ; http://projectwonderful.com/ (nsfw friendly) until you compartmentalize the content properly for adsense to not flag/ban you.

Nailed it.

Good,Reliable,Deadline.

The one's that check those 3 boxes, we keep on our speed-dial.

Not only are they effective, but they do not increase the bounce rate (in most cases), unlike popular belief.

3 Part BBC Documentary "I Bought a Rainforest"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0461lhs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046td9n

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047h528 ( Farming / Burning Land )

Very neat.

How often are the images pulled? Could they be sorted by date? It would be interesting to see the flow of pictures in real time during specific events.

Interesting, was expecting a higher number. Did it translate in a higher time on site as well?

On the 20k, it's actually low for Reddit, but it's so volatile and random, i've had posts generating 185k+ views for around the same amount of points in active sub reddits.

What kind of bounce rate do your normally get from organic traffic vs the Reddit traffic?