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Deliverability itself is a big industry and return path is the leader in the field. Mailchimp resells Return Path as it's "inbox checker" product which we use to analyze our emails to make sure we aren't tripping off spam filters.
The strongest 5 cities outside of the US for us (60% of our issues are outside of the US) based on subscribe size, growth, and click through rate are in this order:
1. London 2. Paris 3. Tel Aviv 4. Beijing 5. Toronto
Granted I haven't lived in any of these cities long enough to know whats it really like but these are the top cities from our data alone.
My advice would be to get in touch with with founders, hackers, and VC's in these areas to get the real feel for what these cities are like. Then visit your top choices, and cowork there for 2-4 weeks.
Hope this helps!
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It's a good time now if you are in the job market.
For example if I want classifieds.com to rank well for "dallas classifieds" how do I use that microsite to improve my ranking on classifieds.com for that term?
I would suggest building a very simple feature set that you an launch quickly (MVP in startup terms) or even a quick mockup and ask your end customer (or who you think your customer is) what they think of it.
If you have a prototype a customer wants then you will be excited. Set some deadlines, targets, goals, and really execute on it.
That's my 2 cents.
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With oDesk the quality of VA is a lot more variable so I would make sure to check out their ratings and past reviews.
Also a quick hack I used is hire 10 VA's for 1 hours each to do a small project or piece of a larger project. Review their work and pick the one who did it the best with the least self direction.
The problem is hoping some miracle will happen in the last week and it turning into a disaster like this.