Monthly Archives: May 2011

Statistical Relevance: Look back 100 clicks instead of 100 days

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WordWatchPRO has again added a unique level of sophistication to creating rules, that sets it even more apart from AdWords Automated Rules: You can now look back X clicks or X impressions instead of X days. This is the last step in making makes your rules completely independent of the amount of traffic and enables you to set rules that will only apply when a relevant number of clicks (or impressions) have occurred. Continue reading

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The AdWords competitive landscape… still evolving

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Danny Wong, co-founder of BlankLabel, wrote a good piece last week in the TheNextWeb about the Google AdWords platform, the competitive landscape of advertising, and the effects of supply and demand.

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Looking for a Flip

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Every entrepreneur’s goal is to combine the perfect product/market fit with perfect market timing. In May 2007, a company called Pure Digital Technologies launched a simple video camcorder called the Flip Ultra.

In the cutthroat home videocam market dominated by global consumer electronics giants like Sony, Canon, Panasonic and others, little-known Pure Digital burst on the scene; offering a simple, affordable camcorder (price: $150 vs. $800 for a mid-priced Sony).

For years, the consumer electronic giants had been racing toward designing ever-more-complex video cameras loaded with features like image stabilization, night-vision mode, and onboard color correction. Then along came the Flip, daring to offer a previously overlooked demographic a device that practically anyone could figure out.

Why am I writing about the Flip today? I think there’s an interesting lesson in what happened next.

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