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Covario Acquired By Dentsu Aegis Network

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San Diego-based Covario , the search and content marketing agency, is being acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network , the companies said late Wednesday. According to the two, Covario has over 140 professionals offering up paid and organic search, social media, and content marketing services to brands and direct marketing clients.

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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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In addition, in this new digital first world, nearly every type of purchase from what's for lunch, to where's the nearest ATM, starts with a 'near me' search on Google, Yelp, or one of the many other discovery networks.

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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. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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Concerns Keeping You From Social Media

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In a recent survey I conducted at couple of my BreakThrough Networking Training Sessions , results showed that there are 4 main concerns that are keeping EVERYONE from checking out social media or even considering tapping into it. #1 Manal Richa Founder of The MarCom Network - www.MarComNetwork.com CEO of BreakThrough Networking, Inc.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. Why am I excited about in-stream advertising then?

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. It was sort of like Twitter’s list of who you follow but much, much smaller.