Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

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. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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