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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). Campaign setup and ad copy writing. There are many additional variables that the inexperienced marketer may not even think to consider: competition and positioning strategies, budgeting, match types, search and content syndication, and ad copy testing, as well developing the best ad wording and layouts.

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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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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

socalTECH

At that point, we realized we needed more money to get things to market, and that's when we went out and raised a round from the Maverick Angels. We think we've really gotten the product validated by the market, particularly with Cyber Monday. Noah Auerhahn: Our difference, is we're customer centric.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). Campaign setup and ad copy writing. There are many additional variables that the inexperienced marketer may not even think to consider: competition and positioning strategies, budgeting, match types, search and content syndication, and ad copy testing, as well developing the best ad wording and layouts.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

socalTECH

Tim, first off, for our readers who haven't heard of OpenX, explain what you provide to the market? They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. We run it through our exchange, OpenX Market, which is in simple terms a stock market for online media. They run that under the brand Orange Ad Market.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

This entry focuses on how you can minimize your cost per customer acquired by systematically establishing the infrastructure necessary to track the results obtained from a variety of online and offline marketing vehicles. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels.

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