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• Originally published: 23/12/2008
• Revised date: 15/12/2013
• Original post

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Notes

This is the latest version of an email which I send periodically, offering customers the opportunity to pre-pay for SaaS in return for a discount. The benefits to the SaaS company are better cash flow and reduced churn rate. The benefits to the customer are, well, in the email. This genre of email has produced hundreds of thousands of dollars in pre-pays for some companies I work with, and it rarely requires any more work than this example.

I've put $79 is as a placeholder for the cost of the user's plan. We calculate that for each account, naturally, along with the billing contact's name.

Subject: Save $79 on Appointment Reminder (and get a tax write-off) Formatting: 100% plain text. Gmail automatically links up the central link. From: Patrick McKenzie (Appointment Reminder) patrick@appointmentreminder.org

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<?

// Tide class fetches, caches and returns tide data from waterlevels.gc.ca
// Kenzie Campbell <kenzie@route19.com>
// Feb. 9, 2010

class Tide
{

	// instance variables (w/ defaults)

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require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'

# VERSION 0.2
# 0.2 – 2010/05/26 : added cleanup (rm deploy)
# 0.1 – 2010/05/21 : initial setup

HOST      = "domain.com"
USER      = "username"
PASSWORD  = nil

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class String  
  # adds tabs to the beginning of each line
  def indent(tabs=4)
    self.gsub(/^/, "\t"*tabs)
  end
end

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    # wrap errors in span
    config.action_view.field_error_proc = Proc.new { |html_tag, instance| "<span class=\"field_with_errors\">#{html_tag}</span>".html_safe }

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source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.1.0'
gem 'jquery-rails'

group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails', "  ~> 3.1.0"
  gem 'coffee-rails', "~> 3.1.0"
  gem 'uglifier'
end

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<% if target.errors.any? %>
<div class="error_explanation">
  <h2><%= pluralize(target.errors.count, "error") %> prevented this record from being saved:</h2>
  <ul>
  <% target.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
    <li><%= msg %></li>
  <% end %>
  </ul>
</div>
<% end %>

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# add these aliases to your BASH profile ~/.profile

alias mongodb-start="mongod run --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf"
alias redis-start="redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf"
# TODO add stop commands

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<snippet>
  <content><![CDATA[
<%= ${0:$TM_SELECTED_TEXT} %>
]]></content>
  <!-- Optional: Set a tabTrigger to define how to trigger the snippet -->
  <!-- <tabTrigger>hello</tabTrigger> -->
  <!-- Optional: Set a scope to limit where the snippet will trigger -->
  <!-- <scope>source.erb</scope> -->
    <description>&lt;%= … %&gt;</description>