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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. It should lead to higher conversion rates and happier customers.

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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. Other PPC experts will track your campaign from click to transaction, providing you with detailed reports on and return on investment (ROI). Cost per action (CPA).

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

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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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

socalTECH

Noah Auerhahn: Our difference, is we're customer centric. If you look at all the other guys, they're all about moving traffic, buying traffic at the lowest CPC, and selling it at the highest CPC. We create a customer, which other comparison shopping sites fail to do.

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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. Other PPC experts will track your campaign from click to transaction, providing you with detailed reports on and return on investment (ROI). Cost per action (CPA).

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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. Other SEM experts will track your campaign from click to transaction, providing you with detailed reports on and return on investment (ROI). Cost per action (CPA).

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