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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). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website. Campaign setup and ad copy writing.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. CAC is a derivative of your cost per click (CPC) or the costs to drive a visitor to your app and your conversion rate. See what other startup mentors have to say about marketing tactics. Conversion Rate. Net Promoter Score.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. CAC is a derivative of your cost per click (CPC) or the costs to drive a visitor to your app and your conversion rate. See what other startup mentors have to say about marketing tactics. Conversion Rate. Net Promoter Score.

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Savings.com: The California Internet Tax Law and Unintended Consequences

socalTECH

Jerry Brown signed into law a bill which taxes Internet retailers if they have California affiliates, a move which looks to have major impact on local companies who use Internet affiliate marketing. One, is the issue of whether Amazon should have to collect sales tax for California. I think there are two things going on.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

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 click (CPC).

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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. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Early evidence is good.

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

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William Belk and Dirk McGregor were both early employees at Beachmint, who saw how difficult it was to track the lifetime value and marketing attribution of their advertising spend. William Belk: CampaignEQ is a market attribution platform for adertisers. William Belk: Ad markets are really skewed against advertisers.