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Funding a Startup from Advertising is a Vain Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had several hundred million in funding, and has been profitable only in the last two years. Don’t count on that to fund your startup.

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Creating A Better Digital Marketing Strategy For Your Business

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It’s difficult enough to get any traction at all on social media or PPC ads, and even harder to maximize ROI on them. You could raise your profile by simply advertising cheap shirts on a Google PPC campaign, but that’s only going to get you so far. But what exactly does that entail? Kill Unsuccessful Channels.

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Website Ads are Not a Revenue Stream for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had several hundred million in funding, and has been profitable only in the last couple of years. Don’t count on that to fund your startup.

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

While you are doing all this work, of course, you need deep pockets to fund all your efforts, content and growing website hosting fees. When Facebook did it a few years ago, the company used more than $100 million in venture capital funding before it became profitable. It helps to understand how online advertising really works.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

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Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. In 2001, I started ABCSearch, which as been in the PPC space for a number of years. How is the company funded? Dan Yomtobian: The company was funded from selling stock in my other company, Findology.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter.

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