Sramana Mitra Profiles Our Clickable — the Marketing Analytics Company

MonitorThe team at 1 Million by 1 Million Blog profiled Clickable under Deal Radar today:

” … When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Some technology startup veterans will tell you that when the markets are crashing, it could be a good time to pick up great technologies at rock-bottom prices. SuccessFactors was such a company. It was born out of the dot-com crisis of 2001 when Lars Dalgaard bought some well-funded technology companies that had gone bust and resurrected them with his vision.

After the dot-com crisis, the economic crisis provided another such window of opportunity to Mike Onghai. Inspired by the success story of SuccessFactors, he bought the assets of Clickable in 2013.

Clickable was originally founded in 2006 and was known for its award-winning Pro advertising tool and expertise in dedicated search and social advertising. It had received funding of $32.5 million in five rounds from Union Square Ventures, American Express, FirstMark Capital, Founders Fund, Peter Thiel, Jonathan Miller, Manatt Venture Fund, Schoffstall Ventures, and Monster Venture Partners. In mid-2012, Syncapse acquired Clickable in a mostly stock deal reportedly worth about $33 million. However, a year later, Syncapse filed for bankruptcy…”

Continue Reading at … The 1M/1M Deal Radar: Clickable, San Francisco, CA

3 Restaurant Ideas, 3 Tips & A Free Calendar Planning Tool for Las Vegas Data Center World 2014

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LookSmart owns and operates its own data center for VMWare failover and disaster recovery clients. Every year, we go to Data Center events and one of our favorites is the Data Center World, to be held April 28th-May 2nd in Las Vegas.

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Use this Calendar Tool to Make Your 2014 Ad Tech San Francisco More Productive

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This year’s Ad Tech 2014 San Francisco is being held on March 26-27, 2014 at the  Moscone Center West. It has AOL’s Tim Armstrong, HootSuite’s Ryan Holmes, Sean Combs as speakers and many others.

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8 Ways to Make the Most Out of SXSW 2014 (free calendar tool)

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SXSW 2014 promises to be another fantastic event!  I have compiled a list of 8 easy ways to make the most out of SXSW 2014.  I came up with these little tips after many years of being quite inefficient at conferences.  Learn from my past mistakes and make SXSW 2014 a productive experience for you! […]

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What is Growth Hacking and How Can It Help You?

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  You’ve got a product that the market is willing to pay for. You have product market fit. Product Market Fit is the condition where over 40% of your customers will ask you to bring your product back if it is taken off the shelf. Now, how do you scale? You need a growth hacker. […]

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Keyword Research – How to Begin

As a search ad network, we know that a marketer’s keyword list is integral to the success of their campaigns. Keeping a list static for too long can mean missed opportunities and missed revenue, so it’s important that search marketers be constantly adjusting their lists and testing new keywords. As regular readers of this blog […]

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3 Steps to Start a Pay Per Click Campaign

Today, pay per click is an extremely popular concept, especially for start-up businesses.  Pay per click allows you to target your audience by geography and keywords or key phrases.  This is some powerful information seeing as though if someone is searching for a term that is directly related to your business, this will put your […]

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3 Strategies for Avoiding Click Fraud

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What exactly is click fraud?  This is one question we get ALL the time as pay per click managers.  As pay per click managers, we make it our job to ensure that the budget you give us for your pay per click campaign is optimized to it’s fullest potential.  Meaning that we are aiming to […]

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3 Successful Pay Per Click Strategies

There are many ways to drive traffic to your website including social media marketing, search engine optimization, and email marketing.  However, these methods of driving traffic take time and don’t produce immediate results.  So some businesses turn to more immediate results for traffic such as pay per click advertising. Pay per click advertising is the […]

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The Top 4 ways to improve your PPC Marketing Campaigns!

The Top 4 ways to improve your PPC Marketing Campaigns! So spring is here, and that means a fresh new start for the year. You may have spent time doing the spring-cleaning around your home and office, but what about on your Pay-Per-Click Marketing Campaigns? Here are a couple of great ways to bring a […]

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