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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Most videos are now in-stream (no download first), and new ones can be interactive, with clickable hot spots. Pay per click (PPC). Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Do you have a business presence there?

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Most videos are now in-stream (no download first), and new ones can be interactive, with clickable hot spots. Pay per click (PPC). Facebook alone has 500 million members. Do you have a business presence there? Streaming video.

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Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design

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Tip: Make your menu available as text, not as a downloadable PDF. Users don’t like downloading files and many will be accessing your site without the ability to view PDS. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). Personality!

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PPC Basics Explained — PPC Management for Small Businesses

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Because pay-per-click advertising (PPC) needs to be an option you consider in order to reach your customers and stay competitive online. In this article, we will cover what exactly PPC marketing entails, why PPC marketing is a beneficial tool for small businesses, and some PPC basics and best practices to get you started.

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How Can We Really Measure The ROI of Optimization?

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How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? In fact, it’s easy to project the predicted ROI of optimization ( click here to download conversion optimization ROI calculator ). However, you have to have a predictable traffic stream (ie PPC) and even then it is rough.

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How to Do a Competitive Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Then, I perform my own search, going through at least two pages of PPC ads and organic results. Other keyword-related tools you can leverage are Spyfu and iSpionage —both allow you to download your competitors’ most profitable keywords. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical.

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Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money?

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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). Related posts: Ten Practical Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Tips.

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