Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per click (CPC).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2011

One of the biggest red flags I see in many Internet-related business plans today is advertising as the initial revenue stream, or a key part of it. The most challenging time is your first couple of years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Don’t count on that to fund your startup. This is a tough business.

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Advertising CPC Funding Startup 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2012

One of the biggest red flags I see in many Internet-related business plans today is advertising as the initial revenue stream, or a key part of it. The most challenging time is your first years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Don’t count on that to fund your startup. This is a tough business.

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CPC PPC Startup Advertising 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. It helps to understand how online advertising really works.

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Advertising CPC PPC Sites 99

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans. Those points add up to a Visa gift card. What is Scour? It's pretty much been all organic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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