Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” For most, it sounds like a magical process or a scam, with the experts spewing so many acronyms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. Cold calling.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Let me not bury the lede. Nice sweep!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many through SEM? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. Revenue metrics are one of the first things I ask for from the startups in which I invest. SEO is seldom “free.”.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

So, we created a site which not just aggregates, but also organizes activities by type, category--land, sea, air--and things like competition, family, culture, adrenaline--to really narrow down the possibilities for what you're looking for. It's migrated onto the web in Hawaii, a simple migration, but no one had done it here yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. Other PPC experts will track your campaign from click to transaction, providing you with detailed reports on and return on investment (ROI). Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations.

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