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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

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Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. Some businesses approach companies on the “dark web” to click on ads on their website. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. .

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

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The year was 2005, and the real estate was booming. It was then when I launched (along with my girlfriend) my first web project, called it Dreaminder. I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. It all started in Dubai.

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How and When to Use Sex to Sell More

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A study on sex in the movies - that examined more than 900 films released between 2001 and 2005 - concluded that nudity and explicit sex scenes don’t translate to success for major motion pictures. billion, up from $1 billion in 2005. Of course, these surveys were asking people how they would behave. People rarely know.