Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games. Seed viral activity.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 12, 2014
SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. The fees generated from speaking engagements and consulting can be worth several times the investment of getting your book on a best seller list.
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FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). Let me not bury the lede. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist.
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MARCH 25, 2016
What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).
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MARCH 11, 2011
Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. We talked about patents.
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