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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. Cost per click (CPC). Campaign setup and ad copy writing.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics. The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. CAC is a derivative of your cost per click (CPC) or the costs to drive a visitor to your app and your conversion rate. Paid Product Metrics.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics. The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. CAC is a derivative of your cost per click (CPC) or the costs to drive a visitor to your app and your conversion rate. Paid Product Metrics.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

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). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per click (CPC).

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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At that point, we realized we needed more money to get things to market, and that's when we went out and raised a round from the Maverick Angels. We think we've really gotten the product validated by the market, particularly with Cyber Monday. Noah Auerhahn: Our difference, is we're customer centric.

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