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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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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. If you have NO network of promotion for your story? Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery. Look at Viddy & SocialCast.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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He told me in some combinations of device / OS / network they are crashing 4 times per 100. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. How many adds came through organic SEO? In 6 months?

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. OTHER DEALS. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.