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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. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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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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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

socalTECH

Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

“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. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels. John Wanamaker.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

socalTECH

As you're probably familiar with, in the business to business marketing space, print has been the dominant way that vendors communicate with their potential audience. That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. plus range.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

It isn’t written by them or any marketing department – so please take it for what it is. He has many of the attributes I look for in an entrepreneur and importantly he has deep domain experience in ad management. Who would have guessed 5 years ago that Netbooks would have had such a big impact on the PC market?

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

socalTECH

We want to make sure the marketplace is for professional content, so we screen to make sure the seller is a professional or small business owner, or a startup or entrepreneur. This is a really big, $50 million business at least, and we really want to own the market. Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content.