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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

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.” For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website.

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

Eric Greenspan

He’s a great guy and taught me a bunch of new things about affiliate marketing and his company. I am anxious to see my blog post a month from now where I update my findings. Each company adds something different to the mix. I remember when they started in a building I once thought to lease for my 2nd company Push.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Then came blogs. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). For most, it sounds like a magical process or a scam, with the experts spewing so many acronyms. Cost per action (CPA).

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