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Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls)

Eric Greenspan

Jason is another local Santa Barbara CEO and we had a great chat about Make It Work, Ring Revenue, Affiliate Marketing and life in SB. Google, Amazon and Ebay have been at the game for a long time. The problem for some of us advertisers is that we are not as interested in hits to our website as we are calls to our phones.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

socalTECH

company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. Demand Media. The now-public.

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Interview with Kevin O'Connor, FindTheBest.com

socalTECH

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. But, advertisers will know you've got to be where people are comparing products. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Jason Spievak, RingRevenue

socalTECH

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. It enables them to allow advertisers to run campaigns through affiliates, where you can drive calls and not just clicks. There is 300 billion or so spent on advertising in the U.S.,

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Interview with SendMeHome

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. How do people go about using the site? How do you get those items back? I always wanted to start a company.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. We have traditionally been a company heard about through word of mouth, radio advertising (now our own show) and from a Mini sighting. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. Sometimes I make a blog entry.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

socalTECH

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. We just did a deal with Rincon Ventures on a deal in Santa Barbara, and we're partnering with other firms on deals, and we'd like to see more.