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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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