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).

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Cost per action (CPA). Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Don’t mix Organic Social Impressions with Cost Per Individual Lifted (CPIL)! Leverage true test-control methodologies as you measure Brand Lift (expressed as a percentage – Level 1), then # of People Lifted, and the delicious Cost Per Individual Lifted (Level 2). This ensures you can demonstrate incremental impact (yea!),

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

You must conduct client interviews, website usage tests, and maybe even set up a small PPC campaign to figure out whether or not the market is interested in you offering. Startup validation tactic 3: PPC (pay-per-click) test campaigns. Startup validation tactic 3: PPC (pay-per-click) test campaigns.

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Gust

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I can’t count the times I heard people saying that “product development defines the product, and marketing gets the customers”. Second – timely, cost-effective customer acquisition is a matter of life-or-death to most startups. It is shocking to me how prevalent this POV is. Always in this sequence. It’s almost counter-intuitive.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If we can’t determine where the traffic comes from, we can neither attribute conversions to their original sources of traffic, nor can we find out the true cost per acquisition (CPA) or return on ad spend (ROAS) for each marketing activity. If there’s a cost associated with running a campaign (i.e.

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