Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2012

Don’t count on that to fund your startup. Unless you live in this world every day, you are probably as confused as I was by the different advertising models, so let me outline the common ones: Pay per click (PPC). The most challenging time is your first years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Face reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Pay per click (PPC). You can use it for your business.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2015

Especially for small or medium-sized businesses, most of your time, effort, and potential reward are all going to be web-based, and getting your digital marketing strategy right is often a sink-or-swim proposition. It’s difficult enough to get any traction at all on social media or PPC ads, and even harder to maximize ROI on them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2011

Don’t count on that to fund your startup. Unless you live in this world every day, you are probably as confused as I was by the different advertising models, so let me outline the common ones: Pay per click (PPC). The most challenging time is your first couple of years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. Cost per action (CPA).

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