Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. This model, called pay per click (PPC), is the one most commonly offered to entrepreneurs.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

They will also give me better service. Tags: eric david greenspan affiliate marketing commission junction doubleclick ppc valueclick. I for one would rather have someone making a commission on the products they sell me as they will work harder to make sure I get the right item, the right size, the right fit, etc. Thanks in advance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

For businesses, these are now prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Pay per click (PPC). Today there are huge communities online, like Facebook and Twitter, which grew in popularity for socializing with friends. Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Do you have a business presence there?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2011

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. To better understand these realities, let’s clarify some terminology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). If you do all these things right by displaying other people’s ads on your website or blog, you will make money from advertising – like Google and Facebook, who offer services for free, and still make millions in revenue. Cost per action (CPA).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Pay per click (PPC). Social networks. These are communities wrapped around a website, like Facebook or Twitter. Facebook alone has 500 million members. Do you have a business presence there?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

With a standard PPC conversion rate (pay per click) of.01% From the time I took a screenshot of the view count for this article, to my fingers clicking away typing these words, the video has already shot up over an additional 300,000 views totaling 1,851,189 views in 2 days. No more than 48 hours since uploading for the public to enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Finance and a host of other wonderful services brought to you by their sponsors. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. If they can’t make profits off of drugs there will be no discovery and our future diseases won’t be cured. Why am I excited about in-stream advertising then?

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