Tien Nguyen
Tien Nguyen is a co-founder of CPC Strategy and deals with data feeds in his waking hours and often in his sleep. He spends his free time with Rubik's cubes while rooting for the underachieving Raiders and UCLA sports teams where he graduated with a mathematics/economics degree.
Recent Posts by Tien Nguyen
Experian to Sell Pricegrabber + Two Sites for $175 Million
Hot off the presses courtesy of Internet Retailer: Experian PLC will sell three of its online assets to an Indian digital marketing company for $175 million. The sale, to Ybrant Digital Ltd., includes comparison shopping engine PriceGrabber and lead generation sites LowerMyBills and ClassesUSA…. > Read More
The Top Ten Comparison Shopping Engines Compared – Q1 2012
The new year that seemingly began yesterday is already over a quarter way through. With ecommerce coming off yet another record breaking quarter, merchants are preparing for things to heat up again as summer comes along–and what better way to prepare than… > Read More
Amazon Launching Sponsored Products: Amazon’s Own Adwords?
What is Amazon’s Sponsored Products Program? Currently in beta mode, this program allows the ability for merchants to bid on keywords to have their Amazon products show up alongside search results, similar to Google’s Adwords. In short, how it works is, say… > Read More
How to Set up Google Product Ads in 60 Seconds
A while back we described the differences between each of Google’s product listing programs, of which there are many different programs as there are apples in a 4 apple tree. And having been asked how exactly one gets to participate in them, particularly Google… > Read More
Google Warns Against Missing Tax and Shipping Info, Again
We’ve covered Google’s (lack of) enforcement on merchants who don’t provide shipping information in the past, but their threats have been as empty as Kelly Clarkson is. It was June 6 of last year that Google stated that they would take down products on… > Read More
White Men Can’t Handle Social Media? How Woody Harrelson’s Attempt Went Limp
In the era of social media, you don’t make just one enemy at a time, you make an army of them. Take for example Woody Harrelson, who in a few short hours has reached infamy status on Reddit: considered by some the… > Read More
