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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

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 paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. Cost per action (CPA).

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

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 paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per action (CPA).

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5 Marketing Software Tools Every Business Should Have

Inverted Software

ConstantContact is email marketing software. With ConstantContact you can create subscriber lists, send email campaigns and track open rates. You can even send scheduled personalized emails on a customer’s birthday or anniversary. With Leadpages you can build and test landing pages used by your PPC campaigns to generate leads.

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Creating A Better Digital Marketing Strategy For Your Business

Tech Zulu Event

Especially for small or medium-sized businesses, most of your time, effort, and potential reward are all going to be web-based, and getting your digital marketing strategy right is often a sink-or-swim proposition. It’s difficult enough to get any traction at all on social media or PPC ads, and even harder to maximize ROI on them.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

socalTECH

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. On top of that, we allow users to comment and read other comments, and email other users within the system. We give users something they don't get anywhere else, for something they do every day--searching the web.

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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). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). For most, it sounds like a magical process or a scam, with the experts spewing so many acronyms.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. We have spam filters for our email.

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