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Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls)

Eric Greenspan

The focus of this post is Commission Junction, as we are just about to get started with them. I remember when they started in a building I once thought to lease for my 2nd company Push. These hits translate into conversions or sales for the advertiser and a commission is paid to the affiliate with CJ taking a piece of the pie.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. eBay and others. You just don’t. Get over it.