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Patrick McKenzie
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Trying to reserve a room for a business trip and optimizing on cost. One option: Monday through Saturday: $800 a night.

Well that's ridiculous. Let me try Monday through Friday.

Hotel's website: "Welcome business traveler! $1,200 a night."

OK, well played, well played.
Revenue maximization for hotels and airlines is so fascinating to me, because clearly there's a really transactional way to approach this and a strong desire to remain a traveler's go-to choice for their next 1,000 nights.
That might be an interesting job interview problem: you, a web developer, need to identify business travellers for the purpose of ripping their eyeballs out.

Go.
"Ripping their eyeballs out" is a term of art on Wall Street, because "aggressively transactional price optimization" lacked a certain je ne sais quoi.
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Patrick McKenzie
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I endorse these notes as a 10+ time MicroConf attendee and *also* think they’re essentially the right playbook for getting value of of most conferences (assuming you’re not there in a corporate leadgen capacity; different playbook for that).
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The reason to go to MicroConf is to meet the people that would go to MicroConf.
“Who are the people that go to MicroConf?”

A pretty diverse bunch, but suffice it to say that it’s technically savvy sharp operators in mostly SaaS or Internet-distributed education who overwhelmingly are outside of Silicon Valley’s orbit.
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Patrick McKenzie
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Don’t sell software to anyone who doesn’t pay accountants or who complains about how much accountants cost.
(The unstated assumption here is “You’re not AppAmaGooBookSoft and can’t spend a billion dollars to make the distribution work.”)
Why do I bring up professional services? Because organizations sophisticated enough to require them are capable of paying material amounts of money for things which enhance their success.

Why the bit about complaining? Because you want customers which are rational.
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Patrick McKenzie
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If you have someone close to you who has income for the first time and needs very prescriptive advice, this is probably 80% of what gainfully employed professionals need to know about personal finance.

(I'd make very slightly different product recommendations.)
In particular I like how Pete's version is very Do This, Do This, Do This rather than giving the theory or numerous options, because some users of finance want to abdicate responsibility for choice, and I'd far prefer they do that to a disinterested geek rather than broker.
My version of this was here: training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/ar…

But it's a bit heavier on persuading people about the theory and a bit lighter on prescriptive product recommendations.
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