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Can You Still Get Acquired for a Decent Price if Growth Has Slowed or Even Stopped? Yeah, Sometimes

SaaStr

Even a PE firm wouldn’t buy it with no growth at all, I don’t think. They’ll make the bet they can build on this core, and in effect, by doing so both re-accelerate growth and save several years of product development and early sales. 10%, 20% growth just doesn’t compound fast enough at that stage.

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GTM 94: Mastering Branding, Pricing, and Customer Success for AI Startups with Holly Chen

Sales Hacker

Holly Chen is the Managing Partner of ExponentialX, a Marketing and Growth Advisory Collective for high-growth SaaS startups, advising companies like Miro, Loom, ServiceNow, Appsflyer in their growth journeys. She was the Head of Growth at Google Store and Global Head of Google B2B Websites. Kearny and the UN.

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LinkedIn ad prices surge as advertisers’ X boycott continues

Search Engine Land

LinkedIn ad prices have soared due to a surge in demand reportedly driven by the advertiser boycott of X. Ad prices soar. How ad prices are calculated. LinkedIn ad prices are determined by an auction system based on market demand. The greater the demand, the higher the ad price. Why we care.

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Report: Google Search CPC up 13% YoY; ad spend growth slowing

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Click growth continued to slow, hitting 4% YoY (compared to 8% in Q4 2023). Especially since Google reportedly had been increasing ad prices to meet targets. All figures represent same-client growth and are not meant to officially reflect any specific advertising platform’s performance or the experiences of every advertiser.

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Google quietly increases ad prices to meet targets, claims exec

Search Engine Land

The search engine “frequently” changes the auctions it uses to sell search ads, increasing the cost of ads and reserve pricing by as much as 5% for the average advertiser. For some queries, the tech giant may have even raised prices by as much as 10%, according to Google Ad executive, Jerry Dischler at the federal antitrust trial.

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Amazon’s ‘secret ad pricing scheme’ revealed in previously redacted documents

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New documents detail the alleged deceptive practices used to boost consumer prices by more than $1 billion including deliberately making Amazon search worse – a strategy reportedly approved by chairman Jeff Bezos. Raising prices for consumers. Consumers pay the price. Why we care. The impact of Junks Ads.

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Revenue, customer growth returns Semrush to profitability in Q3

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With customer and revenue growth hitting new highs in Q3, Semrush achieved its first profitable quarter since Q1 2021. Also: 20% growth in customers who pay more than $10,000 annually. 987,000 registered free active customers (up 25%) Price increases starting. That ends a stretch of nine straight quarters posting a net loss.

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