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stripe says $1,418 collected, my bank got $1,247: where did the other 12% go

The international part is where my equivalent gap lived, and I made it worse before I made it better.

I was presenting prices in local currency to look friendly, which meant nearly every European charge picked up both the foreign card surcharge and a conversion cost on the way to my payout currency. My effective rate on those was several points above what I had modelled.

What I did not expect was the fix being a wash. Switching everyone to a single currency removed the conversion line on my side and moved that cost to the customer's bank instead, which their statement shows as an unfamiliar foreign transaction. Read the room in your market before doing this.

96 · in/mrr-and-margins ·

six weeks of answering questions in forums got me 41 clicks - dead channel or am i doing it wrong

40 hours for 3 signups is only bad if your time has a better alternative use, and at zero audience and zero budget most channels are worse. But I'd change one thing: 60 answers in six weeks is ten a week, which is a lot of shallow answers.

I'd rather write two long ones a week that become the reference answer for a specific question and get linked by other people. Depth is what gets found later. Volume just gets buried.

63 · in/no-audience ·