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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). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per click (CPC). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). If you do all these things right by displaying other people’s ads on your website or blog, you will make money from advertising – like Google and Facebook, who offer services for free, and still make millions in revenue. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise. You must apply dedicated resources to your SEM efforts, either in-house or via a trusted third-party partner, in order to maximize customers acquired from this channel. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com.

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