Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

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 paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per action (CPA).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2015

It’s no secret – digital marketing is the big brand battleground for most companies. It’s difficult enough to get any traction at all on social media or PPC ads, and even harder to maximize ROI on them. For example, let’s say you’re a company. But what exactly does that entail? Kill Unsuccessful Channels.

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PPC Marketing Social Media Startup 40

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

He’s a great guy and taught me a bunch of new things about affiliate marketing and his company. Santa Barbara born companies such as DoubleClick, ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick are all leaders in the space (the last three are all now owned by ValueClick who’s founder is a major investor in Make It Work).

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. On top of that, we allow users to comment and read other comments, and email other users within the system. In 2001, I started ABCSearch, which as been in the PPC space for a number of years. How is the company funded?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

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). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per action (CPA).

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SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

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. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286