The average click-through rate for Facebook ads was 0.063% in 2009 and 0.051% in 2010. Click-through rates used to be about 3% in the 90s, but have been declining since. Current industry standard is 0.1%.
I heard that facebook is good for awareness, just to let low- or no-paying people know you exist, but click-through rates are pitiful, indeed.
Tesla was digging ditches for influential ex-Wall-streeters after quitting the Edison company. During lunches he would tell about his ideas - this helped him to get financing a few years later. Just an example
People can communicate by smell too - willy-nilly. Most often it's bacteria on human skin that detects changes - such as stress hormones - and respond in their own ways. Some people can smell stress in other people.
At first thought, I too would think it was written by a machine, not a person...
Frankly, I am not impressed with google's abilities to recognize spam. After all, sufficiently advanced spam is indistinguishable from content. And humans are slowly becoming machines.
I always hit "Report Spam", works for everything except me@s
i have no problems with my personal domain, but if e-mails are addressed to my gmail account in me@ list that fails.
or, if you do not want to mention retired or former, nor start your own company, just provide your home address and indicate your preferred/non-preferred reviewers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5572765
and yesterday too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9122788