Comments on: Interviewed by Gabriel Weinberg [video]

By: Peter Harkins

Peter Harkins — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:29:41 +0000

In the interview, you said:

Google Analytics treats everything as a page view. If you want to track anything else, you have to write a lot of Javascript. [Patrick notes: Events which can be represented cleanly by page views map to GA very well, but everything else suffers a painful impedence mismatch.]

What sort of events have you had trouble with? I know in GA you can provide a mock URL so it can track an event as a pageview, is that the painful part?

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:08:02 +0000

I’m glad you transcribed it. I don’t know what people have against the written word nowadays.

To cut to the chase, in the transcription you mention long tail searches. Now
I’m not convinced that the long tail aspect of your business which (mini-sites aside) appears to account for the majority of your sales is so accessible for many small software vendors. Obviously it is possible in any niche but with exponential effort depending on your market and this isn’t always an option depending on the time available.

My next product (and I don’t mean the above which is an experiment with rails, S3 and the long tail) will have easily accessible long tail searches as a prerequisite. I’m pretty sure this is the way to go for small uISV’s who want an easy life in ‘bingo card creator’ type niches.

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Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:21:28 +0000

[...] Gabriel Weinberg, the entrepreneur behind the search engine Duck Duck Go interviewed me earlier today for his upcoming book on getting traction. The video, which runs about an hour in length, is available here. I always look for a summary of contents prior to committing myself to a video (since they’re so much longer than reading a post), so here you go: [...] Original post [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:09:17 +0000

Why don’t you switch your payment processing over to Clickbank and have an affiliate program? You could explode your $$ without much extra effort…

By: Ruben

Ruben — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:06:54 +0000

Great interview Patrick! I was really impressed with the amount of useful info you gave during the interview (I had to pause a few times to digest). I’m also a big fan of Andrew’s work so your upcoming interview on Mixergy is something that shouldn’t be missed.

By: Andrew Warner

Andrew Warner — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:43:41 +0000

Thanks for promoting your upcoming Mixergy interview. Looking forward to having you on!

By: Michael Dorfman

Michael Dorfman — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:35:34 +0000

You should start getting used to appearing on lists like that; I’m not sure you’re fully aware of how much of a legend you are becoming to a ever-growing group of people you have in turn influenced.

Great interview, by the way.