Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. So what are the key strategies that can improve the success odds for your online startup? Search engines. like Google. Do them all.

Startup 96

Startup Social Media Content Paid Search 96

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. So what are the key strategies that can improve the success odds for your online startup? There is still a place for paid advertising.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

During my tenure at Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting), one of my responsibilities was leading our online marketing, a role I retained until our eventual acquisition by Citrix. Since then, the craft of advertising online has matured from an art to a science. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

Content 171

Content Platform Paid Search OpenX 171

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.”

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Commission Junction.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271