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The Case for In-Stream Advertising

Both Sides of the Table

The topic of whether in-stream advertising has heated up. Let me lay out my defense of In-Stream Advertising because I believe the topic is really important. People feel angst about advertising in any form – I feel the same feeling about advertising as most consumers. I feel it’s a necessary evil.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. This form of advertising is know at CPA (cost per action).

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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

If you already have a strong customer base, create a brief survey to help you determine what social media sites they’re using and how to reach them in a targeted way. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Assess your target customer demographics.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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“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. Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking. John Wanamaker. They are paid nothing for simply displaying the ad.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. This is how you make money from advertising – someone else runs ads on your site or your blog, and you get paid for everyone who clicks on the ad. Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Do you have a business presence there?

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How Luxury Link Is Growing Its Travel Marketplace, With Scott Morrow

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They''re mostly C level executives, and households with incomes of over $200,000 a year, which makes advertisers on our site such as Neiman Marcus, LVMH, Mercedes, Ritz Carlton, and Mandarin Oriental a big component of our business. We grew our SEM and improved our ROI. How have those changes helped grow the firm?

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