February 8, 2012

Cherrywood Capital Group Successfully Divested Two of Its Investments

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Phase I of our secret project and my third quarter goals are both going really well, even though I'm spending an inordinate amount of time on the manuscript for my next book, which is a guide to calculating intrinsic value of stocks, bonds, real estate, and other assets. Everything Merging Under the Kennon & Company Brand Remember the $31,000 we spent on the paid search advertising pilot program last September?  Yeah, part of that involved testing various keywords to determine if we were … [Read more...]

A $31,000 Lesson on Paid Search

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I'm sitting in a Brooks Brothers bathrobe in a seventh floor suite in St. Louis working on the company MacBook. For the past few weeks, I've been toying with paid search at our e-commerce businesses.  We've always had great success with organic search and, in many cases, dominate our keywords leading to terrific sales at a very low cost.  However, with paid search, our staff wasn't as familiar with the mechanics and the best way to get a high conversion rate. We approved a budget to test … [Read more...]