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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

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 paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. Cost per action (CPA).

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

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 paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per action (CPA).

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DONE Ventures Sues NBC Universal Over Failed Domain Name Sale

socalTECH

submitted an email chain which shows the acceptance of Padnos' offer by Sedo. As evidence, DONE!

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Creating A Better Digital Marketing Strategy For Your Business

Tech Zulu Event

It’s difficult enough to get any traction at all on social media or PPC ads, and even harder to maximize ROI on them. Switching up your strategy can call for an enormous amount of effort and flexibility, but it beats throwing both of those away on a completely unsuccessful plan. Draw Up and Use a Budget. Define Your Goals.

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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). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). That business model doesn’t compute in the startup stage, but that’s another story.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

socalTECH

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans. Those points add up to a Visa gift card. That's how I was able to fund and start ABCSearch.

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Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls)

Eric Greenspan

The focus of this post is Commission Junction, as we are just about to get started with them. I remember when they started in a building I once thought to lease for my 2nd company Push. We all get emails daily offering various products and we do buy them from time to time, me included. We pay based on each call received.