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 action (CPA). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Best is if you have a combination of ad revenue, sponsorships and some forms of non ad revenue (subscriptions, merch, music sales, etc.). But you don’t need to spend money on SEM. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. Take for example, an eCommerce company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

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). Cost per action (CPA). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

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. further down the sales funnel from CPC advertising where you pay for a click but still need to convert on your own).

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