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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. further down the sales funnel from CPC advertising where you pay for a click but still need to convert on your own).

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CampaignEQ's William Belk On Ads, Algorithms, and Attribution

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As an example, if you have proper attribution and proper lifetime value, you might spend $15 more per customer to acquire them, which can change the trajectory of your entire company. Companies need a way to roll up all that data, and understand their cost of customer acquisition in a detailed way. It''s a problem for everyone.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

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). 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.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. Our customer footprint, as I mentioned, is huge. The software takes care of all of the optimization of that.

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

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He’s a natural leader, appropriately competitive, very customer focused and a pleasure to work with. banner ads on a CPM, CPC or a Cost-Per-Install [CPI] basis). You can also compare how in-app purchases perform vs. cross-promoting the other apps you may have for sale.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

With SEM, 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). 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.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

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). 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.