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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

socalTECH

However, instead of just very rapidly scaling around that idea, we decided to really define what the business needed to look like. But what's also happened, is we've narrowed down the set of networks that we use as consumers to engage with companies. In 2013, Facebook local pages, Google Pages, and Yelp were not all that active.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Because GoTo.com was his idea. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. But bill is a BIG idea guy. Google had huge destination traffic.

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

Both Sides of the Table

What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). Yes, Google won. Google’s Ad Sense did, too.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. 8 ) Click-to-call has been around for years, yet RingRevenue has secured non-exclusive relationships with the five largest affiliate networks.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Your marketing dollars paid for these unattributed customers, but like Wanamaker, you cannot identify when or how. As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. Google, and Facebook. Except they won’t be called Product Managers. Yes we can!

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