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2024.05.18 18:44 Significant_Newt8697 Just Be Real, Be Original, Be Who You Were Meant to Be

This is one of the most stupid statements that one can tell another.
Was just listening to Under The Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and to my surprise the chorus sounded familiar to mine ears.
After further investigations I realized that the chorus is simillar to the song Brooklyn by Mos Def. Mos def must have taken inspiration from the Under the Bridge chorus and tweaked it a bit to make his chorus.
This got me thinking that Solomon was right, there surely is nothing new under the sun. Every idea has already been thought of, every behavior, or even every personality.
I'm sure if we dug deeper into history we'd find a you somewhere. So you really are not that original. You are just a copy of another copy which is also a copy of a copy.
All your ideas and all the beliefs that make you have all been copied or adapted from somewhere. So how can you be real, or how can you be a fake nigga as they like to call it when you were never original to begin with?
Niendelee ama niachane na bangi?
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2024.05.18 07:55 moagul AMA Solar Solution Company Owner/Installer

So I've recently seen a lot of people asking solar related questions, since this is a hot topic (pun intended) I thought that since it is the weekend (not for me, we take off on Fridays), I'd start an AMA related to Solar so I can help fellow Redditors out. After all that is what reddit is about, besides puns.
Additional information: My solar company is based in Rawalpindi/Islamabad. However, we also do projects in Lahore and adjoining areas. But usually not beyond that because I can't provide reliable after sales service, and this would be unfair with the client.
My company’s FB page.
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2024.05.18 06:49 Strong_Welcome_3836 I peed my pants at hot yoga ama.

Struggle w bladder control. Usually just bedwetting. Male. 30. Cute but feel forever alonee
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2024.05.18 01:49 eagle2120 [Very Long] The Urgals and The Beors. Murtagh Spoilers.

Hi All
I wanted to touch on a topic that's been bothering me for a bit.
tl;dr
The Urgals and the Beors.
To start, let's establish a common understanding about the creation of the Beors:
Orik commenced by recounting how, at the dawn of history, the race of dwarves had migrated from the once-verdant fields of the Hadarac Desert to the Beor Mountains"
Hmm. So the Dwarves were created, then migrated to the Beor mountains after their creation caused the Hadarac desert:
Good eye. The mountains are most definitely NOT natural. They have a spell on them that's preventing a lot of erosion. The mountains are also the reason the Hadarac Desert exists
Before we get too deep on the Beors, I'm going to go on a tangent here -
This is interesting because it slightly conflicts with the creationism story told to us in Inheritance:
Then the god Helzvog made the stout and sturdy dwarves from the stone of the Hadarac Desert (In the Beginning: A History...).
But, we know the Dwarves were created BEFORE the Hadarac was a Desert; according to the above, the Hadarac Desert was a "verdant field" at the time of the Dwarves creation.
So if that's true, how were the Dwarves created from the stone of the Hadarac desert?
Hmm.
It also brings up a second point - Where is there stone in the Hadarac Desert and/or Verdant Plain?
Sure, there's probably some below the surface - But there are a few (pre-Beor) mountains in that area - The only one of significance being Du Fells Nangoroth.
Du Fells Nangoroth has also troubled me for some time.
It is the "ancestral home" of the Dragons -- But why? They like the heat, and according to Saphira, sand is good for their scales.
But... They settled on Du Fells Nangoroth BEFORE the Hadarac Desert was a Desert.
Before we formed our pact with the elves, we kept our hearts in Du Fells Nangoroth, the mountains in the center of the hadarac desert" (Souls of Stone, Brisingr).
"the ancestral home of the dragons: the heart of the Hadarac Desert, where stood Du Fells Nangoroth" (Pieces on a Board, Inheritance).
But... the Hadarac desert didn't exist before the Dwarves. As we established earlier, it only existed because of the creation of the Hadarac.
So the heat and dryness of that area came about AFTER they settled there.
It begs the question -Why did the Dragons settle there? Why was it their ancestral home, if at the time of settling, it was not a desert (and therefore did not have the warmth and sand the Dragons preferred)?
Hmm. Really starts to make you think, there's something we haven't been told about all of this. I've covered this in other posts, so I'll restrict myself to one example here:
"Nal Gorgoth. His brow furrowed. The name sounded Dwarvish, at least in part.... It also reminded him of Du Fells Nangoroth, which was what the elves had called the mountains in the center of the Hadarac Desert - where the wild dragons used to live - and which was translated as the Blasted Mountains"
Chris, through Murtagh, is hinting at a connection between Du Fells Nangoroth and Nal Gorgoth. On multiple fronts - Both with the sound of the name, and the translation (Blasted Mountains).
So there's missing information about the ancestral home of the dragons, and Murtagh draws a connection (on multiple points) between Nal Gorgoth and Du Fells Nangoroth.
Hmm. If you want to read more, I cover more of these oddities in my Du Fyrn Skulblaka post here.
Anyways, that's enough of that, back to the Beors. According to Urgal mythology, the Beors were created by Rahna:
Rahna is mother of us all, and… she who raised the Bear mountains when she was fleeing the great dragon (Over Hill and Mountain, Brisingr).
We'll return to this quote and the implications behind it later. After poking around a bit more here, What really started to bother me here was this quote from Chris:
I mean, there are giant snails (and bears and boars and . . .) and giant mountains. Who knows what lurks in the caves beneath the Beors!
The caves beneath the Beors. This really got me thinking.
I think the caves beneath the Beors probably existed before the creation of the Beors themselves. There is no way the Beors creation ALSO created the caves beneath them - I mean that wouldn't make any sense from a spell perspective.
Why create the Beors and the caves at the same time? It just doesn't make any sense.
Which leads me to think the caves existed before the Beors.
And if that's true, it completely shifts what we know about them, and why they were created.
It implies the Beors were created BECAUSE of the caves. I've covered this in-depth in another post here, so I'll recap some of those points. Let's examine together:
The caves beneath the Beors have parallels to the caves beneath Nal Gorgoth:
"Monstrous wild boars, ridge-backed and covered in coarse black bristles. 'They eat the mushrooms and grow to exceptional size because of it... It gives their meat a taste unlike any other" (Tusk and Blade, Murtagh).
So the boars are of a huge size because they eat the "tainted" mushrooms and grow to a huge size as a result. Where else have we seen similar creatures before?
Beors. Nagra (Giant Boar), Shrr (Giant Wolf), Feldunost (Goat), Urzhad (Cave Bear).
Whose Fungi (Mushrooms) are also tainted. Angela herself goes to the Beors to gather the mushrooms:
"The witch carried a wicker basket nearly four feet across and filled with a wild assortment of mushrooms... She spread them with her hand. 'This one is called sulphur tuft'... "a mushroom with a lightning-blue stem, molten-orange gills, and s glossy black two-tiered cap... Fricai Andlat... Fricai Andlat only grows in caves in Du Weldenvarden and Farthen Dur, and it would die out here if the dwarves started carting their dung elsewhere" (A Sorceress, A Snake, and A Scroll).
So there are unique mushrooms here. And there are big, unique beasts here that eat the mushrooms (or eat the creatures that eat the mushrooms).
That lines up.
There's more - Murtagh specifically calls out the similar stench:
"The stench of brimstone poured out of the well with sickening strength. Even as Murtagh took a step toward it, a column of black smoke erupted from its depths... They build this in expectation of the smoke, Murtagh thought... He had heard of such things among the Beors mountains: places where the mountains breathed fire, and hot smoke and ash" (Creatures of the Dark, Murtagh)
As another example - Mani's Caves:
Since we know that the Dream Well in Mani's Caves is similar to the Well in Nal Gorgoth I can assume that Angela is revealing the existence of the Draumar to Elva there? I feel certainly feel as if you're setting up her for something in the future series.
Heh. Good catch.
Alright, you get the point - I'll cut it here, because I'm just re-hashing my old post
The caves beneath the Beors have the same Brimstone-infused ground as Nal Gorgoth, which implies that Azlagur (or some equivalent) resided in the caves, underneath the Beors.
But, if we're taking our assertion from earlier - The caves existed before the Beors.
So these mountains were created BECAUSE of the caves.
Let's revisit the Rahna passage:
Rahna is mother of us all, and… she who raised the Bear mountains when she was fleeing the great dragon (Over Hill and Mountain, Brisingr).
Fleeing the great dragon.
There is an Urgal legend about Rahna fleeing "the great dragon" and raising the Beor Mountains. Is this the apocalyptic dragon Gogvog that Uvek talks about?
Yes
Previously, we all thought that Rahna raised them as a physical barrier in the air while fleeing the great dragon. But I don't think that's the case.
She was in the caves, doing something, and raised them while fleeing the great dragon UNDER GROUND. She raised them to COVER UP the caves and the Brimstone ground, NOT to prevent a dragon from Flying over them.
We can further prove this because a large, but not apocalyptic-sized dragon, can fly over the Beors:
His scales had become clear as diamonds, which it is said, happened because Mimring flew so close to the sun - for in order to fetch the other dragons in time, he had to fly over the peaks of the Beor Mountains" (Mooneater, Inheritance).
So if a "regular" dragon can fly over the Beors, it sure wouldn't pose a physical barrier for an apocalyptic-sized dragon.
Which implies the dragon she was fleeing from wasn't flying. It was in the caves. That sound familiar to anyone?
Whew, let's all take a break here before we get into the second half of this post. The Urgals and their connection to the Beors.
The Urgals and The Beors.
Let’s look at the timeline -
The Beor mountains were raised BEFORE the urges migrated over to Alagaesia.
Like, WAY before. 5000 years; 5 millenia.
So why do the Urgals have a story about the creation of the Beors when they did not arrive to Alagaesia until the Beors were over 5000 years old?
According to Christopher the Dwarves actually witnessed the event:
Q: It is confirmed (I think?) that The Worm of Kulkaras its set before the Urgals migrated over to Alagaesia. However, In Urgal Mythology, Rahna raised the Beor’s when fleeing from the Great Dragon. Is there any force, being, or magic that is obfuscating/hiding that event from Dwarven history? Or did they not witness it?
A: The dwarves witnessed it, but they probably didn't understand what they were seeing. It would have seemed like an act of nature on a scale that's hard to imagine.
Yet it's the Urgals who have the myth about it?
Does that not seem odd? And to add on to that - How is their "mythology" at all accurate to what happened?
We can't say definitively that it's right or wrong at this point, but given Chris answered this question in an AMA, it confirms parts of the mythology to be correct (that it's not natural, that it's raised + prevented from eroding by a spell, and it was after the dwarves creation).
So despite not setting foot on the continent for another 5000 years, they got parts of the creation story correct. How?
The closing piece here I want to talk about is Rahna herself. She is the "Mother of us all" according to Nar Garzhvog.
With the recent world map translations, we know the Urgals were created on Alalea.
So what was she doing in Alagaesia, after the creation of the Urgals? And where is she now?
I have a few guesses - Linnea? Silvari? But it is an open question at this point.
Alright, that's all I got for now folks. Thanks for reading! Let me know what you think in the comments
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2024.05.17 23:08 FungalPlague Chocolate Cafe is open

A group of cyclizars arrived here carbink made an AMA and wormy asked help with the debris of the rocket he built last time
Also venomoth said he's planning something,he says that its his "Opus" whatever that means
Chocolate
Dark Chocolate
White Chocolate
Choco Milk
**BIG** Chocolate
Hot Chocolate
Chocolate cake
Chocolate Muffins
Brownies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Ice Cream
And obviously the **Dangal Special**
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2024.05.17 18:58 ENRIQUEavv Saturación de videojuegos

Solo les quiero compartir mi sentir.
Soy un jugador casual que ama los videojuegos, empecé cuando tenía 6 años con una N64. Ahora tengo 32 años, casado y con hijos. Amo y disfruto jugar videojuegos, es mi pasatiempo favorito, pero cada vez le dedico menos tiempo, de pasar a muchas horas por día, a solo un par a la semana. El jugar menos se debe a que decidí dedicarle mas tiempo a mi familia. Por las condiciones he decidió jugar videojuegos offline, por dos simples razones; los puedo pausar y realmente los puedo disfrutar sin estresarme.
Hay demasiados juegos que he comprado y no he jugado, y todo se debe a la adicción que tuve por jugar multijugador, empezando en 2004 con Halo2, pasando por Gears of wars, Call of duty y terminando con PUBG, warzone y fornaite.
Es una enorme lista de videojuegos que tengo, y lo peor de todo es que sigo comprando videojuegos que muy probablemente no voy a jugar.
Escribo esto para quitarme la resaca de haber comprado muchos videojuegos en el Hot Sale
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2024.05.17 14:41 AnimeMod r/anime now has 10 million subscribers!

anime now has 10 million subscribers!
“God, 30,000 god-damn users. You all need lives.” -Neito, our father who art in weebdom, circa January 12th, 2012.
Hello, one and all, to 10 million subscribers!
10 million subscribers!
Today, what began as an ordinary pet project, as a home of discussions and questions, of rankings and contests, of rewatches and writing, of strangers and friends, of mods and users, lives 16 years later as anime!
Thanks to everyone who has chosen this subreddit to be a part of their anime experience. anime has always been a haven for people of all stripes to come together with one shared love: Japanese cartoons. Under this banner comes our love for animation, our passion for connection, and our squabbles for Fate watch orders. Thank you again to all 10 million subscribers for making this sub as special as the day it had only one.
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be hosting a variety of fun events: Quiz, AMQs, comment face nomination, mod AMA, Who’s Line is it Anime, and more. Let’s take a quick peek at what’s happening:
Saturday, May 18: Who's Line is it Anime
It's the thread where the responses are made up and the points don't matter. That's right, we're bringing back the game from years before! Similar to the improv show Whose Line is it Anyway?, it'll be an arrangement of suggestions but with themes tied to anime, so come play the past favorite of the sub.
Sunday, May 19: AMQ Night
You know it, you love it, you hate it when it rolls your favorite show but you flub it with the wrong season, so come play some AMQ (Anime Music Quiz) hosted by the moderators!
Wednesday, May 22: anime's Favorite Anime Poll
After discovering anime's favorite openings, films, and tsunderes, famed chartographer fetchfrosh is setting out for the Big Question: our favorite anime.
Friday, May 24: 10 Million Subscriber Quiz (Video + Audio)
We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better, stronger, faster...okay, maybe not faster but the point remains, we've got a quiz combining aspects of the previous video and audio quizzes together into one spectacular bonanza!
Friday, May 31: Mod AMA
It's been a hot minute since we've opened an AMA up, so let's get ourselves out of our pajamas, break out the Rolodex, and start answering some questions.
Sunday, June 2: Niche Comment Face Nominations
After some spring cleaning from badspler, we've got a few empty spaces left open on the ole comment face cabinet. Therefore, what better way to stock it back up than with nominations from you!
It's all that and a bag of chips, so stay tuned for all of these events and more!
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2024.05.17 08:33 Turb0300 Much better than the sb2.

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2024.05.17 08:31 biggusjax I M26 literally had hot girl follow me in the gym and didnt get her number 😣. AMA.

I was working out in the gym. This was around the time i finally started hitting a stride. I remeber my muscles were lookin nice that day and i was feelin like a champ.
I kept noticing this girl walk by me and even get close to me as i used the machines. Now im a 6'0 240lb black man and im aware that im bigger than most and that can be intimidating for some. I know i shouldnt care but generally in the gym i try to avoid women. Not cause im scared but #1 i dont wanna seem like creep #2 i dont wanna make them uncomfy #3 i stink and dont usually look the most appealing when i work out. So i just basically ignored her.
I was on my last workout which was an intense tricep work out and she brought her yoga mat right next to the machine i was using! There are a million places she coulda put that mat yet she chose to put it next to me. She pretended to be on her phone for a bit then started stretching. This was probably a REALLY bad stretch because there was no space for her. Ofcourse i glanced at her booty a couple of times but i was too focused on my workout to pay any other attention.
When i finished my workout i reset the weights and put the machine back how its supposed to be. I walked to the other sie of the gym to check myself out where no one could really see me. Then i see her outta the corner of my eye walk up to me. I couldnt hear what she said because i had my headphones in. Then i took em out and heard her say "are you done with the machine" i said "yes" and she started walking away. I then stumbled and said "u good, the machine ok?" She turned around so quick and looked me in my eye smiled and shook her head. I said "ok" then continued to check my self out.
I told my friends about it even my female friends and they told me im an idoit and if i see her again i better get her number. Unfortunately i never saw her again. Soo ask me anything yall. I know im an idoit!
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2024.05.14 10:51 mtufekyapan Marketing Guide For Shopify

Marketing is one of the most crucial operation for a Shopify store. There are lot’s of tactics Marketing is one of the most crucial operation for a Shopify store. There are lot’s of tactics to grow quickly and none of them not working. Well, if you looking for a way to create solid marketing plan, then this guide is for you. In this guide you’ll learn

Definition of Marketing

American Marketing Association defines marketing as activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. Source
What do you see here?
  1. Marketing is not about activities, it contains activities, set of institutions and process.
  2. Function of marketing is not generating sales. It’s creating, communicating, delivering and exchanging offerings that has value.
  3. In this post we’ll focus on Shopify stores marketing. However in the big picture marketing has not limited with companies. Marketing can be done within organization or society.
Let’s summarize what marketing definition for a Shopify store. Marketing will create, communicate, deliver and exchange offers that have value for customers. As you can see main subject in here is customers. Because of this, I’ll put customers as the center of this guide. Everything we’ll do has to something with them.

Market Research, Competitor Analysis and Defining Your Target Market

This is a practical guide for marketing so I want to continue with a hypothetical Shopify stores for each steps.
Let’s say we have a Shopify store that has some high-end, organic baby clothes targeting new parents.

Market Research

How can we do the market research?
Let’s say you have a new Shopify store that has less than 500 order per month. You can hire expensive agencies, expensive experts to research the market, create market reports for you, etc. Even if you do that, I highly suspicious if it helps you.
However you can talk with your new-parent friends. Ask them about how do they decide to buy baby clothes? What they are looking for before completing their purchases? Do they get any expert opinion before making buying decision? How do they search online and what they want to see? Is there any great YouTube channels about this.
Don’t have any friends? Checkout your friends not a new-parents but parents and ask similar questions to them. If you also don’t have them, try to make new born friends. I know how hard it is but let’s be honest here. If you don’t know anybody in your target audience, how do you manage to get know them? All of the successful stores I saw they have direct relationship with their target audience.
When you make your research with real people, then you can extend your project to online. Try to search as they do. What do you find? Deep in dive and take your notes.

Competitor Analysis

When you done this market research, you’ll also see there are some other brands. This is a huge subject but let’s call these brands as competitor for now.
Now it’s time to analyze them.
  1. Checkout their branding strategy.
  2. What are their value propositions?
  3. What is hot about them? Return guarantee, free shipping etc.
  4. What is not hot about them? Poor product or store design, low UX on the website, etc.
  5. What people think about them? Google reviews, Trust pilot reviews, product reviews on the store.
  6. Are there any partnership or influencer program they’re running?
  7. What is their Google/YouTube campaign strategy? Check it here.
  8. What is their Facebook/Instagram campaign strategy? Check it here.
Create a spreadsheet with all of this information. We’ll use this when working on positioning and marketing strategy.

Define Your Target Market

What do you say about our target market? Can all of new parents be our target market?
Nope, it can’t. You need to deep dive into your market and find a sub-segment, a niche that will need your products much better than anybody else and afford it easily.
This is what I called ideal customer profile (ICP). Check out what is ideal customer profile and how to create your ideal customer profile posts to learn more about the concept.
For our hypothetical store, ICP can be something like this;
Demographics
Psychographics
Pain Points
Needs
Buying Behaviors
After creating ICP, it’s important to spend some time on empathy map. Don’t forget to check it, too.
Now we know our baby clothes Shopify store market, customer’s buying process and our ideal customer profile.

Brand Identity and How to Create Your Branding

I’ll follow the American Marketing Association (AMA) in here too.
First look at brand definition. AMA defines brand as “any distinctive feature like a name, term, design, or symbol that identifies goods or services”.
Branding is for creating and managing your brand’s identity. It involves your mission, values, culture and public image.
I’m not an expert on brand, but I know how branding can be effective for your conversions and performance. Here are some checklist for you.
  1. Design consistency is the key. Your visual identity should be consistent across social media, Shopify store, emails, product detail pages, etc.
  2. Copy consistency is the key. Your communication style should be consistent across social media, Shopify store, emails, product detail pages, etc.
  3. Experience consistency is the key. Let’s say your brand looks like a high-end brand and when a new visitor visit your store first they see is an annoying popup saying want to get 10% OFF. This is simply how to destroy your brand.
  4. Craft a story and stick to it. What makes you create this brand? Faces behind the brand. This is a huge leverage for creating trust and building bonds.

Go-to-Market Strategy and Defining Your Marketing Strategy

So far we identified our target market and ideal customer profile. Check out competitors and creates the branding for our store.
Now it’s time to work on go-to-market strategy and crafting our marketing strategy.

Go-to-Market Strategy

Let’s say you recently launched your Shopify store or add a new line of products.
You need a plan to introduce your store or new products to the market. This is what we called go-to-market(GTM) strategy.
Main goal of the GTM is letting people know that there is a new brand or product line. It’s similar to launch marketing. Key message here is there is a new products/brand launched and it offer the best for you. Give it a try, you’ll love it.
All of your messages and communication should be parallel to this process.
Our focus is convincing people to try our products/brand. So I always offer a special campaign just for the launch to give people to a reason to try your products/brand.
For our hypothetical Shopify store we can run a special campaign for launch like;

Marketing Strategy

This is your plan of actions to sell or advertise your products. Now we can talk about selling part of the marketing.
Let’s say you have GREAT advertising creatives and a huge budget and just spending it. Don’t wait to crack the code and having lot’s of sales.
Your marketing strategy should be follow sales funnel. If you don’t have a high-converting sales funnel, you can’t expect people to buy from you. Check out How to Build High Converting Sales Funnel For Shopify post.
AIDA Sales Funnel Framework
Now we can continue with our hypothetical store example. We’re selling high-end, organic baby clothes on our store. We crafted our ICP, empathy map, work on branding and created our story.

Example Marketing Strategy

First step we’ll work on attention step. Our focus is getting attention of our target market attention.
We can create a educative e-book like “7 Harmful Chemicals Commonly Used in Baby Clothes and How to Avoid Them” and run some campaigns targeted new parents on social network (Facebook, Instagram or YouTube)
This ads will land on a landing page that gives brief information about why we should pay attention to chemicals in baby clothes for our little ones and make a promise like “I spend my last 5 years about researching chemicals on baby clothes and prepare this book for you and your little one”. Also there can be a quick video about our story explaining our expertise in this field and why we’re building this brand.
We can ask for their email address to share the book with them. When they enter their email address, we’ll send them this ebook.
After first email with the ebook, we can send a few more emails with easy to digest information about chemicals.
This will create an expertise image on our target customers and start to create a bond with them. Not a bad start, right?
At the same time we can use this content on our social media, right? Quick videos, infographics and posts about the chemicals in the baby clothes.
After getting a few thousands subscribers we can organize a webinar to answer questions. This will also a great content for re-used social media content and creating trust and expert image.
Then we can share a time-limited promotion with this people for a bundle. Like we’re running a campaign and these 5 chemical free baby clothes bundles 10% discounted until next week!
We can send emails about it and use this campaign for remarketing for only people who show interest in our e-book and webinar.
This is a very brief template of marketing plan.
Now let’s take a look at more common one.
It’s time for you. Which one do you want to choose? All of the experts recommending this without even asking who are your customers. Can you believe it?
Don’t forget that marketing strategy is not a hope. It’s a well documented plan of actions designed for turning strangers into customers.

Inbound and Outbound Marketing Channels

Inside the marketing strategy, channels plays a vital role. There are lot’s of ways to group channels. I’ll use most basic one.
Inbound Marketing Channels: With the inbound marketing your customers will find you and start the interaction. Most common channel for inbound marketing is organic search engine optimization.
After creating high quality content, when customers search something online, they can see your articles and first interaction happens.
Outbound Marketing Channels: With the outbound marketing you reach out to customers. Facebook/Instagram/YouTube ads, influencer marketing, display ads, podcast ads can be count in this category.
As you can imagine inbound marketing channels takes lot’s of efforts and time however over the time you’ll have organic marketing channel and it brings you customer without needing any budget.
Outbound marketing channels generally works with advertisement models and you need budgets to run these channels.
Most of time I recommend to start with outbound marketing channels and then invest inbound marketing channels overtime. Don’t forget to check Mastering Paid Ads For Shopify post.
Succesful marketing plans should be supported by high converting growth and conversion plans. Don’t forget to check Growth Guide For Shopify and Conversion Optimization Guide For Shopify too.
to grow quickly and none of them not working. Well, if you looking for a way to create solid marketing plan, then this guide is for you. In this guide you’ll learn

Definition of Marketing

American Marketing Association defines marketing as activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. Source
What do you see here?
  1. Marketing is not about activities, it contains activities, set of institutions and process.
  2. Function of marketing is not generating sales. It’s creating, communicating, delivering and exchanging offerings that has value.
  3. In this post we’ll focus on Shopify stores marketing. However in the big picture marketing has not limited with companies. Marketing can be done within organization or society.
Let’s summarize what marketing definition for a Shopify store. Marketing will create, communicate, deliver and exchange offers that have value for customers. As you can see main subject in here is customers. Because of this, I’ll put customers as the center of this guide. Everything we’ll do has to something with them.

Market Research, Competitor Analysis and Defining Your Target Market

This is a practical guide for marketing so I want to continue with a hypothetical Shopify stores for each steps.
Let’s say we have a Shopify store that has some high-end, organic baby clothes targeting new parents.

Market Research

How can we do the market research?
Let’s say you have a new Shopify store that has less than 500 order per month. You can hire expensive agencies, expensive experts to research the market, create market reports for you, etc. Even if you do that, I highly suspicious if it helps you.
However you can talk with your new-parent friends. Ask them about how do they decide to buy baby clothes? What they are looking for before completing their purchases? Do they get any expert opinion before making buying decision? How do they search online and what they want to see? Is there any great YouTube channels about this.
Don’t have any friends? Checkout your friends not a new-parents but parents and ask similar questions to them. If you also don’t have them, try to make new born friends. I know how hard it is but let’s be honest here. If you don’t know anybody in your target audience, how do you manage to get know them? All of the successful stores I saw they have direct relationship with their target audience.
When you make your research with real people, then you can extend your project to online. Try to search as they do. What do you find? Deep in dive and take your notes.

Competitor Analysis

When you done this market research, you’ll also see there are some other brands. This is a huge subject but let’s call these brands as competitor for now.
Now it’s time to analyze them.
  1. Checkout their branding strategy.
  2. What are their value propositions?
  3. What is hot about them? Return guarantee, free shipping etc.
  4. What is not hot about them? Poor product or store design, low UX on the website, etc.
  5. What people think about them? Google reviews, Trust pilot reviews, product reviews on the store.
  6. Are there any partnership or influencer program they’re running?
  7. What is their Google/YouTube campaign strategy? Check it here.
  8. What is their Facebook/Instagram campaign strategy? Check it here.
Create a spreadsheet with all of this information. We’ll use this when working on positioning and marketing strategy.

Define Your Target Market

What do you say about our target market? Can all of new parents be our target market?
Nope, it can’t. You need to deep dive into your market and find a sub-segment, a niche that will need your products much better than anybody else and afford it easily.
This is what I called ideal customer profile (ICP). Check out what is ideal customer profile and how to create your ideal customer profile posts to learn more about the concept.
For our hypothetical store, ICP can be something like this;
Demographics
Psychographics
Pain Points
Needs
Buying Behaviors
After creating ICP, it’s important to spend some time on empathy map. Don’t forget to check it, too.
Now we know our baby clothes Shopify store market, customer’s buying process and our ideal customer profile.

Brand Identity and How to Create Your Branding

I’ll follow the American Marketing Association (AMA) in here too.
First look at brand definition. AMA defines brand as “any distinctive feature like a name, term, design, or symbol that identifies goods or services”.
Branding is for creating and managing your brand’s identity. It involves your mission, values, culture and public image.
I’m not an expert on brand, but I know how branding can be effective for your conversions and performance. Here are some checklist for you.
  1. Design consistency is the key. Your visual identity should be consistent across social media, Shopify store, emails, product detail pages, etc.
  2. Copy consistency is the key. Your communication style should be consistent across social media, Shopify store, emails, product detail pages, etc.
  3. Experience consistency is the key. Let’s say your brand looks like a high-end brand and when a new visitor visit your store first they see is an annoying popup saying want to get 10% OFF. This is simply how to destroy your brand.
  4. Craft a story and stick to it. What makes you create this brand? Faces behind the brand. This is a huge leverage for creating trust and building bonds.

Go-to-Market Strategy and Defining Your Marketing Strategy

So far we identified our target market and ideal customer profile. Check out competitors and creates the branding for our store.
Now it’s time to work on go-to-market strategy and crafting our marketing strategy.

Go-to-Market Strategy

Let’s say you recently launched your Shopify store or add a new line of products.
You need a plan to introduce your store or new products to the market. This is what we called go-to-market(GTM) strategy.
Main goal of the GTM is letting people know that there is a new brand or product line. It’s similar to launch marketing. Key message here is there is a new products/brand launched and it offer the best for you. Give it a try, you’ll love it.
All of your messages and communication should be parallel to this process.
Our focus is convincing people to try our products/brand. So I always offer a special campaign just for the launch to give people to a reason to try your products/brand.
For our hypothetical Shopify store we can run a special campaign for launch like;

Marketing Strategy

This is your plan of actions to sell or advertise your products. Now we can talk about selling part of the marketing.
Let’s say you have GREAT advertising creatives and a huge budget and just spending it. Don’t wait to crack the code and having lot’s of sales.
Your marketing strategy should be follow sales funnel. If you don’t have a high-converting sales funnel, you can’t expect people to buy from you. Check out How to Build High Converting Sales Funnel For Shopify post.
This article first published at MarketingLib.
Don't forget to check Growth Suite on Shopify App Store.
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2024.05.14 05:03 notoriousbck Anyone diagnosed with Gastroduodenal or Jejunal Crohn's that did not show up on MRI ?

I posted about this awhile back and did not get much response but I am gaslighting myself and need people who have gone through this or similar to help me be objective.
I will Try to keep this brief but it's a lot.
-long history of stricturing Crohn's of terminal ileum diagnosed in 2006. First resection Sept 2018, Last resection in April 2022. Surgeon told me he found Crohn's high up in small bowel, could not remove safely, hoped new biologic (Stelara) would take care of it.
-6 month delay in starting Stelara due to GI F up (forgot to send preauthorization)
-July 2022 began having severe upper gastric pain (under ribs and belly button) after even the smallest amount of food, followed by severe nausea and often vomiting. Within half hour multiple liquid BM's undigested food and insane amount of fluid. Began to eat less and less, moved to soft diet, and finally to complete liquids in August 2023
-July 2023-Oct 2023- Weight loss of 20 lbs over 3 month period. Many ER visits needed for rehydration and IV anti emetics and pain meds as could not keep down any oral meds. GI did colonoscopy but only found microscopic Crohn's in anastomosis site (he only took 2 biopsies from that area and nowhere else). CT's done in hospital showed thickening of wall of ascending colon, and collapsed bowel, free fluid in peritoneum. GI dismissed as "not reliable". Fecal Cal slightly elevated. Constant low grade anemia. After 4th ER visit in Oct 2023 they did a high res Ultrasound and I was admitted by surgery department. However, as I was urgent but not emergent, there were no beds available. Was given choice of staying in ER and receiving IV steroids, or going home and following up with GI. Chose home and was given Entocort. Entocort slowed down bowel from 30-50 bm's a day to ten. Did not help pain, nausea, vomiting, lack of ability to eat. After several desperate emails where I begged for help, said I wanted to die-GI ordered urgent MRI, would not change meds or give prednisone without "proof".
-November 2023-Began to experience fatigue like never before. Could hardly keep eyes open. This would be followed by severe upper gastric pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea that went on for days, followed by constipation for 1-2 days and severe bloating, only on the left side of belly which would be rock hard and hot to the touch. Then the diarrhea cycle woud begin again. Always pure liquid, sometimes black, always tons of mucous.
-Went to Mexico to visit my parents for the holidays where I usually feel better but still could not eat. Injecting myself with IM Gravol (anti emetic) just to keep fluids down. I lived off of chicken broth with rice. Saw GI in private hospital. Ordered full workup. Blood found in stool. 3 D CT ordered (could not find a vein for IV after 5 nurses, two doctors, and a radiologist with a vein finder so only had oral contrast) showed inflammation in small bowel, thickening of the ascending colon wall 11 mm, and inflammation of ileum. He wanted to send me to special IBD hospital in Mexico City for MRI but it would have cost 2500$ so I decided to wait till I got home to Canada where it would be free. Treated me with antibiotics for IBS (only available in Mexico and Germany) Zero improvement. I lived off of electrolyte drinks.
-Jan 29th 2024 returned to hospital because I could not keep any oral meds in (pills would be in toilet) also pain was 9/10, high fever, vomiting. Admitted again, but no beds. Left AMA with another prescription for Entocort.
-Feb 12 2024- High fever followed by two days of 40 plus liquid BM's, some of them bloody, all of them black. Husband insisted back to ER where I was admitted immediately. Cortisol levels 11 (close to adrenal failure) very low potassium. Doc said if we'd waited I likely would have died from heart event. Spent 8 + weeks in hospital having every kind of test imaginable. NOTHING showed on MRI, inflammation on CT, lower scope clear, upper endoscopy showed inflammation in esophagus, stomach, and duodenum. Negative for H Pylori, negative for celiac. Started on 150 mg of hydrocortisone for low cortisol to rescue my organs. MRI of brain showed small tumour on pituitary. Endocrinologist did ACTH test and was unhappy, kept me on 40 mg of hydrocortisone IV. PICC line insertion went awry when they Discovered I had complete stenosis of veins and needed port catheter surgically implanted. Was on TPN for 5 weeks. Needed pain meds and anti emetics every 4 hours or severe vomiting and diarrhea would ensue. 30-50 liquid bm's continued (they made me write down everything I ingested and every time I had a BM. They tested me for everything. No blood, NO CDiff, no parasites, no infection. High fever 104.5 plus delirium and CRP shot up to 50. Continued Anemia, blood work all over the place, even with TPN I needed potassium and sodium boluses 3 times a day.
-Requested pill endoscopy, GI said no Crohn's, no need for test. Suggested psych evaluation for a fucking eating disorder. Endocrinologist disagreed, said starvation and whatever disease process was causing symptoms was causing my cortisol issue. Psych diagnosed medical PTSD and generalized anxiety disorder (no shit) but NO eating disorder. Fired GI and hired IBD specialist from another city. Re ran all tests, CT showed huge diverticulum on duodenum otherwise clear. Was going to be moved to a ward from a private room. Had a panic attack because I could not share a bathroom and was not about to use a commode. Asked to be discharged after nearly 9 weeks. They were so overcrowded and basically did not know what else to do to help me, so they let me go even though I was still on TPN and NPO. Got a 5 minute instruction on how to insert a butterfly catheter for pain meds, and let go.
-Present-3 weeks later, still on liquid diet, (Boost drinks, blended oatmeal, yoghurt and soup) still on sub q and IM meds. Finally got new IBD doc to order capsule endoscopy and is treating me for SIBO (never been tested) plus set me up with nutritionist and psychologist for support. MRI repeated- totally clear.
I FEEL CRAZY. This is the sickest I have ever felt. It's been almost a year since I chewed food. The pain under my ribs just to the left of my belly button is now constant, whether I eat or not, pain meds barely take the edge off. Sometimes it's so intense I can hardly breathe. I keep passing out on the toilet. I projectile vomit daily, even using Gravol and Pantoprozole, the bile acid is awful. I've been doing tons of research and have learned that GDC and Jejunal Crohn's are extremely hard to diagnose. I have every single symptom and fit the criteria. Does this sound familiar to anyone????
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2024.05.14 03:17 Altruistic_Tonight18 I give out taxpayer funded crack pipes, contrary to the White House’s assurances that they aren’t using taxpayer monies to fund acquisition or distribution of crack pipes. AMA

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/02/10/biden-smoking-kits-pipes-addiction/6724719001/
I’m not trying to bash Biden and Harris, and will be voting for them a second time soon… The White House appears to have used misdirection and some fancy pants doublespeak to publicly deny it. Here’s how it really works:
We provide “safer smoking kits” to drug users at no cost to them. What the funding bill and resulting grants said is that we, the harm reductionists who run programs, get to decide what goes in to our kits. Technically, they’re not lying. So yeah, let me tell you how the White House is able to honestly say that they don’t fund crack pipe distribution.
Our crack kits don’t technically contain assembled crack pipes… In order to make a crack pipe, a user has to put the screen or Brillo pad (we provide both) in the glass stem in order for it to meet the legal definition of “crack pipe”. It takes about ten seconds to assemble one, and we give them out usually about 5 at a time, depending on how much crack a person smokes. The max I’ve ever given out was 50, to a guy who had an eighth a day habit and was pretty damn wealthy. They get to choose, and they understand that our stock is limited, so they only take what they need. We don’t ask for names or IDs. It doesn’t matter if you’re broke or a millionaire, we serve all drug users and the people who surround them.
Our kits aren’t just EZ-Build crack pipes; we give them lip balm (as crack pipes can get very hot with obsessive use or if it’s being used by multiple people), little wood pusher sticks which help them use crack more efficiently, rubber mouthpieces which prevent burns and disease spread, new lighters, and a few other knick nacks.
We give everyone narcan as well, so they can save their opioid user friends should one get a bag of dope that’s heavy on the fentanyl. Or if they somehow find pure heroin, which was hard to come by when I was using fifteen years ago. In those days, only paramedics carried narcan! Now your friendly neighborhood crackhead carries it as well, thanks to democrats like me!
But what about meth users, you might ask? What about people who smoke fentanyl? Do they get government funded pipes too???
Yes. Totally taxpayer funded, although we do have other grants and donations. The meth kits are pretty much the same, only with taxpayer funded meth pipes instead of crack pipes. For fentanyl smokers, we have hammerhead pipes. We also have clean sheets of aluminum foil with fresh straws for folks who smoke heroin.
We also do needle exchange… Until a few years ago, it was a one for one syringe exchange, but now we give out boxes of a hundred along with sharps containers to anyone except the diabetics trying to get free medical supplies from us… Hell, even then we give them out even though our grants specify drug users as recipients. We dispose of sharps containers, and we make our clients promise to use them to minimize needle stick injuries. We have contracts with a medical waste company, as do all other needle exchange programs.
My ultimate point here is that HELL YES WE GIVE OUT CRACK PIPES THAT ARE FUNDED BY TAX DOLLARS, and we save lives by doing it. That’s not just a bold claim; harm reduction has been studied, a lot (in part because young liberals going in to allied or public health hear the bizarre and ostensibly false things that some ultraconservatives say about harm reduction and love proving them insane using actual large sample scientific studies), and continues to be studied at the most reputable colleges you can find.
So yeah, AMA. And no, I’m not going to send you pipes or syringes. We only distribute to residents of the city I’m in!
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2024.05.13 22:12 ImADudeDuh Chrissy Chlapecka will be joining us for an AMA May 16th at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST!

Chrissy Chlapecka is an American musician and TikToker. First getting major viral success during 2020, Chrissy has cultivated a fanbase thanks to her personality and aesthetic. In 2023, she started releasing music, starting with the single I'm So Hot. She's since released other "Bimbo Pop" songs (a term that's very much a positive) such as BRAT and her newest song for upcoming EP "Girlie Pop," Verse.
And now she'll be here to answer your questions!
Proof Picture
Signed, The Popheads Social Media Team
For those new to the AMA process, *this is NOT the thread to post your questions.** A dedicated thread will go up an hour before the stated time of the AMA and will be pinned to the top of our subreddit.
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2024.05.13 15:05 FarmerBrown78 Words and Truth

Yuanwu wrote to a student:

The verbal teachings of the buddhas and ancestral teachers are just a snare and a trap. They are used as a means of entry into truth. Once you have opened through into clear enlightenment and taken it up, then in the true essence, everything is complete. Then you look upon all the verbal teachings of the buddhas and ancestral teachers as belonging to the realm of shadows and echoes, so you never carry them around in your head.
Many students in recent times do not get to the basis of the fundamental design of the Zen school. They just hold onto the words and phrases, trying to choose among them, discussing how close or how far away they are from the truth, and distinguishing gain and loss. They interpret fleeting provisional teachings as real doctrines and boast about how many koans they have been able to sift through and how well they can ask questions about the sayings of the Five Houses of Zen. They are totally sunk in emotional consciousness, and they have lost the true essence in their delusions. This is truly a pitiful situation!
A genuine Zen teacher would use any means necessary to warn them of their error and enable them to get away from all such wrong knowledge and wrong views. But they would reject this-they would call it contrived mental activity to turn people around and shake them up and refine them. Thus they enter ever more deeply into the forest of thorns of erroneous views.
As the saying goes, "In the end, if you do not meet an adept, as you get older you will just become a fossil."
You must not depend on either the pure or the impure. Having mind and having no mind, having views and having no views both alternatives vanish like a snowflake put on a red-hot stove. Twenty-four hours a day, from top to bottom, you are free and untrammeled as you wander this road that the thousand sages do not share. Just bring this to complete purity and ripeness and you will naturally become a real person, beyond study and free from contrived activity, a real person whom thousands and tens of thousands of people cannot trap or cage.

Here Yuanwu smashes any notions of "historical records" or AMA being Zen practice. He clearly says the teachings are provisional and are merely devices used to to enter into truth. He points out that taking pride in being good at asking questions about Zen is being sunk in emotional consciousness. Interpreting these koans as real doctrines and trying to emulate these masters is a sickness; a truly pitiful situation. (This is coming from the guy who wrote the Blue Cliff Record!)

People like this need a genuine teacher to warn them of their wrong views and help them get away from them. But of course, as he predicts, they will reject it. And they do. When presented with letters like this, people who are sunk in emotional consciousness and caught up in intellectual interpretation and reverence for Chan masters and their teachings immediately reject it. They say these letters are inauthentic. They say Yuanwu would never say anything like this. It has to have been doctored. Right?

Thus they enter more deeply into the forest of thorns and erroneous views.

He says you need to have a mind not dependent on pure or impure. Not discriminating what is or isn't "real Zen." Not grasping or rejecting, not having views or no views...both alternatives vanish. Then you're free. Then what good are sayings, what good are questions and answers, what good is a historical record?

"It all belongs to the realm of shadows and echoes, so never carry them around in your head!"

Bonus question: What does Yuanwu really mean when he says that koans are "used as a means of entry into truth?" It's such an important detail, and an explanation of why he compiled koan collections in the first place.
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2024.05.13 03:05 atseptic (Updated version!) Things you might or might not see in the r/hazbin post comment sections! (for newbies)

I am not using images this time so here's a list:
1: u/biddudefromcanada (the infamous charlie's hot steaming cum mug)
2: u/SuccubunL0L (choccy milk giver, may appear to give you choccy milk)
3: u/Inevergetpaidenough (verosika's lesbian slutty sexslave, getting pretty active on here i must say i see them a lot)
4: actual memes (rare in reply sections but common in original comments)
5: meme stealing fests (here's the sugar on the cream, he asked me to steal your meme! as an example)
6: roleplayers (mostly found on AMA post comments)
7: horny (very common will be found)
8: the cum containers (commonly known as the cum mug army)
9: v e g i t o (occasionally, this is just where he spends his spare time)
10: song chain (commonly stayed gone or hells greatest dad but one time i did one to candy store from the heathers musical?)
11: comments related to the post (yes that's obviously on here)
12: sometimes references to comics (eg gone too far)
13: helluva boss (well it's the same universe as hazbin hotel so why not?)
14: simps (related to horny, but some are less extreme)
15: mass downvoted comments (i don't see these often but i have seen them before)
16: image chains (less common, have seen one with a cute sir pentious)
17: on the topic of pentious, sir pentious quotes (do a sssssex with me -sir pentious)
18: flairs of different fandoms (i've seen one of spamton from deltarune, as mentioned before we know vegito from dragon ball, etc)
19: "you can have the meme pal, in fact I stole the meme myself!" (pretty self explanatory, someone steals a meme they sent and then the person admits to having stole that meme beforehand but in the form of a meme)
20: "WHAT IS THAT FLAIR" (person sees flair and questions the said flair)
There you have it, beginners and non beginners, double the amount of things I put on my previous and now deleted post of stuff you'll see in comment sections on posts here! I would put "anything related to hazbin" as number 21 but that's cheating
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2024.05.13 00:43 dkncus a cool guide to wine

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2024.05.11 21:34 Business_Broccoli960 Hot Wheels ne zaman geliyor

Merhabalar hotwheels koleksiyonu yapıyorum ama her hafta mağaza gezmekten sıkıldım mağazalara hangi tarihlerde hot wheels geldiğini biliyorsanız söyler misiniz istanbul anadolu yakasındayım (genelde buyaka avm'den bakıyorum) ve saat kaçta gitmeliyim
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2024.05.11 19:11 MoneroFox AMA Binance (memories from 2 years ago)

AMA Binance Product team here - ask us anything!
Binance did not respond.
Finally, the reality set in. After the announcement of XMR delisting (February 6th 2024), XMR withdrawals were immediately closed and have only been opened sporadically for small amounts since then (official end is May 20th).
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2024.05.11 14:10 MoneroFox AMA Binance (memories from 2 years ago)

From an older post here in CryptoCurrency:
AMA Binance Product team here - ask us anything!
Binance did not respond.
Finally, the reality set in. After the announcement of XMR delisting (February 6th 2024), XMR withdrawals were immediately closed and have only been opened sporadically for small amounts since then (official end is May 20th).
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2024.05.11 10:18 pervertednymphet psycho disabled mom made me fat intentionally so i dont bag hot men AMA

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2024.05.10 23:07 FungalPlague Chocolate Cafe is open

Anyways Chocolate Cafe is open
There was an AMA i guess
Anyways
Chocolate
Dark Chocolate
White Chocolate
Choco Milk
\\\*\\\*BIG\\\*\\\* Chocolate
Hot Chocolate
Chocolate cake
Chocolate Muffins
Brownies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Ice Cream
And obviously the \\\*\\\*Dangal Special\\\*\\\*
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