Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click.

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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.” In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI).

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. One of the biggest mistakes perpetuated by siloed execution of SEO and PPC strategies is that the groups that own each piece rarely learn from the other party's work. It really is. You're in business. Call your mom.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Why This Is Important: If you don’t establish specific goals, you will not be able to evaluate the opportunity costs of your SEO efforts or you might give up too quickly. If your revenue model is the sale of a service or product, your goal could be to get your cost per conversion below a certain amount after 90 days.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

Paid search marketing is also sometimes called CPC (cost-per-click), or PPC (pay-per-click) marketing, because most search engine advertising is sold on a CPC or PPC basis. Some people also refer to paid search marketing as SEM (search engine marketing). What have you seen in your own paid search campaigns?

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Enterprise SEM. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. How To: SEM / Paid Search. Imagine on your first day, I tell you to optimize the campaign of 50 keywords, what do you do?”. Also note that the data I’ve provide the candidate so far doesn’t include anything around revenue or costs.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. The results?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Mailchimp , Constant Contact , JangoMail and the like make it easy to create and manage email campaigns and special Thank You’s can be sent using any of these or other services. An added advantage of using email campaigns to say thanks is the data you’ll receive in return. Lean Business: Do Unto Others*.

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A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

I thought getting my first 25 customers for QwikTalk would be pretty easy - just launch a few PPC campaigns on Google Adwords and everything should be fine, right? Here’s how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel.

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A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

I thought getting my first 25 customers for QwikTalk would be pretty easy - just launch a few PPC campaigns on Google Adwords and everything should be fine, right? Here's how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Paid media (PPC, Display etc), Earned media(Social Media), and Free media (SEO, Referring Sites etc). Or even if my acquisition campaign (Paid, Earned or Free) did not result in conversion in this visit, maybe they'll come back later. Fifth , this is very important: What did it cost you to get this traffic to your site?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

Depending on the cost of items you sell on your website each percent point of abandonment could represent tens of thousands to millions of dollars per month in revenue. Two examples: Shipping Costs: If people just want to know what the shipping cost make it easier for people to find shipping than having to go to checkout or add to cart.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) are fundamental to online marketing, and though both are shown to benefit business immensely, they’re not the same. SEM is geared more toward paid search, and SEO is used to drive website traffic through keywords and linking. SEM for Beginners.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). Or there are people who will get their tech support question answered and as a result not call you on the phone (saving you $50 it costs you to answer the phone). Because it is hard. Not impossible.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

Finally the Purple Box, at the very top, contains other filters (cost, competition, keywords etc etc). There will be two bonus items in there: 1) SbKT will attempt to classify your keywords into logical Campaigns and 2) into logical Ad Groups, thus saving you some time. Data driven paid search campaigns! Delightful.

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