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.

White Men Can’t Handle Social Media? How Woody Harrelson’s Attempt Went Limp

Posted by Tien Nguyen on February 3, 2012 in Featured, Social Media

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

Defying Conventional Wisdom: Facebook’s Timeline is a Feature for the Ages

Posted by Tien Nguyen on December 15, 2011 in Facebook, Featured, Google+, Social Media

Although CPC Strategy is based in San Diego and consists of many Bay Area transplants, there are actually a few among us that have exclusive memberships to one of the hottest clubs around: Tebow-mania.  It's no wonder then that one of the… > Read More

Nextag Scalps FanSnap: a Ticket Comparison Site

Posted by Tien Nguyen on December 11, 2011 in Paid CSEs

We’re not sure which comparison site Nextag went through to make its latest purchase*, but it has announced that it’s completed some early Christmas shopping by picking up FanSnap: which is to the ticket world what Nextag is to consumer products. Read More

New Google Shopping Accounts Limited to 1500 Products

Posted by Tien Nguyen on November 30, 2011 in Comparison Shopping, Featured, Free CSEs

A few weeks ago Google announced that newly registered feeds would be limited to 50,000 products which is down from their usual 100k limit. This posed a problem for any new merchants wanting to list on Google and have over 500k products–since you… > Read More

Google Analytics: Separating Product Listing Ads From Product Extensions Traffic

Posted by Tien Nguyen on November 18, 2011 in Free CSEs

Paying for Google Shopping Traffic? A few months ago we described the difference between Google's paid product listings: product listing ads and product extensions. A brief recap: Aside from standard Google Shopping, our top performing CSE, merchants have alternatives to advertise their… > Read More

Google Suspending Accounts For Blocked Images

Posted by Tien Nguyen on November 7, 2011 in Comparison Shopping, Free CSEs

We’re starting to see this type of message pop-up with increased frequency within some of our clients’ Google Merchant Center logins as of late:   Critical Errors: Must be fixed by Nov 11, 2011 to prevent account suspension in United States. Learn… > Read More