Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2012

The most challenging time is your first years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Until you get a million page-views per month, your revenue will be negligible, and advertisers won’t be interested in your site. For advertisers, this is called cost per click (CPC). Don’t count on that to fund your startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

To make this work, you need heavy traffic on your site -- probably at least a million page views per month -- which most sites never achieve in their lifetimes. This model, called pay per click (PPC), is the one most commonly offered to entrepreneurs. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model.

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Advertising CPC PPC Sites 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2011

The most challenging time is your first couple of years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Until you get a million page-views per month, your revenue will be negligible, and advertisers won’t be interested in your site. For advertisers, this is called cost per click (CPC). This is a tough business.

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Advertising CPC Funding Startup 90

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Tags: entrepreneurs startups. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. Cost per action (CPA). That business model doesn’t compute in the startup stage, but that’s another story.

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SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90