With regard to layoffs, you’re misinformed as well but I guess I’m not surprised. It’s not reasonable to expect all open forum participation to be of the educated sort.

I note you specifically lauded Efficient Frontier in your post, excellent example of someone who has actually experienced the recent type of layoffs you claim Marin has: http://www.clickz.com/3631392

Get your facts straight, you’re simply spewing venom. Either someone has pissed you off or you work for a Marin Competitor.

I’ve been involved in search for 5 years now with 3 different companies. Not one of them invested in software to manage search.

If you’re spending a lot of money, chances are the software is going to cost you $10k-$30k/month. I really don’t think the cost/benefit is worth it. There are some manual processes that we could benefit from some automation, it’s better that we have our development team build it in-house so we get exactly what we need without the additional cost.

kudos to you on managing all of that by hand. I’m sure you’ve got all of the workflow down to a science.

We’re in the same range… $10-$15k/day in spend w/ google.

We have our own account reps at Google…they just work for us.

Reports don’t take much time at all.

Slow day is low $10k.

Real people said that huh? It doesn’t take much to get assigned a rep (CSR) in the OSO group. I’ve been to the ‘plex more than a dozen times. The food’s gone downhill in the last few years.

Are you by chance working at a shopping comparison engine? gotta love the arb business!

Let’s hear some spend figures heavyweight.