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Ben Kirshner

Mr. Ben Kirshner

Professor, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (INC)

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Council Member Biography

Benjamin Kirshner is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Elite SEM Inc, an online advertising agency. He is also an instructor of search engine marketing strategies at NYU. He specializes in developing and orchestrating search engine marketing campaigns, email marketing, affiliate marketing, banner advertising, co-registration, contextual targeting advertisements, and ROI tracking. He is experienced in evaluating search engine marketing technologies. He has over 7 years of experience in the online marketing space. Mr. Kirshner works on a daily basis with Google, Yahoo!, AskJeeves, MSN, AOL, Shopping.com, and Valueclick. Elite SEM Inc is a Google Adwords Certified Company as well as a Yahoo! Ambassador. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History

2006 - Unspecified
Professor, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (INC)
2004 - Unspecified
CEO, Elite SEM Inc
2001 - 2004
Account Executive, Send Traffic
2000 - 2001
Account Executive, 24/7 Real Media

GLG NewsSM Analyses by Ben Kirshner(?)

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PPC Keywords and Trademarks

May 14, 2007

Google to Face First Jury Trial Over its 'Adwords' Keywords Search Program | interestalert.com

Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK.com and the rest of the PPC world could get a huge slap in the face if there is a law prohibiting the use of advertisers bidding on trademarked terms.

Quigo could be next to be aquired

September 19, 2006

Quigo: The next Google? | money.cnn.com

Google has done a great job buying really good technology companies.  These guys could be next.

MySpace is now Google's Space

August 11, 2006

Google Signs $900M Deal With MySpace | www.dailytech.com

This article explores some of the implications from Myspace partnering with Google. 

Google Radio Coming Soon

August 7, 2006

XM makes advertising deal with Google | phoenix.bizjournals.com

This artlice talks about Google aggrsive push into the struggling radio market. 

The hundreds of thousands of Google's clients will be introduced to the radio business, through their purchase of Dmark a few months ago. 

This is the first major deal announced towards Google jumping into the radio business

Click Fraud- Good or Bad for Advertisers

July 27, 2006

Google opens the window on click fraud Company says it will be more transparent with advertisers | www.sfgate.com

Google Inc. said Tuesday that it plans to be more transparent with advertisers about a problem known as click fraud, reversing a policy of secrecy that left many advertisers in the dark about whether they were victims of scammers.

The change by the Mountain View Web giant is intended to combat increasing fears that advertisers are paying -- in some cases thousands of dollars -- for bogus clicks on their ads.

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Recent Seminars

September 25, 2007 | New York

GLGi: Online Advertising – Market Overview

February 20, 2007 | New York

GLGi: Paid Search Immersion - Buying Keywords from Yahoo and Google