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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Marty Zwilling.

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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. Marty Zwilling.

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10 Ways to Ensure Creative Ideas and Results at Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business I know needs to be on a constant lookout for new ideas, both in what they offer to customers, and in their internal operations, to stay competitive. In business, this means taking a customer view, vendor view, as well as your internal process view. Evaluate ideas for pluses, potential, and concerns (PPC).

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

Eric Greenspan

The secret in this game is to start with a product that is viable to the online audience, garner attention from leading affiliates and then turning the traffic into paying customers. With Ring Revenue, the affiliates will send potential customers to our phones. An example of this process is evident right here on my blog.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). 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. Cost per action (CPA). Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Tracking and performance reporting.

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