“In an ideal world, all SMBs would come to Facebook to manage their own pages,” said Dan Levy, the company's director of small business. “But our recognition is that there are folks who have those trusted relationships with SMBs,” and Facebook wants to work with them...
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Facebook is now the #2 mobile app for local search, behind Google Maps, notes MomentFeed CEO Rob Reed.
2013 could see a handful of established companies look to mergers and acquisitions in order to jump-start their existing hyperlocal strategies — or to help them build new initiatives altogether.
SMBs are getting social, but they still lag on mobile. Listen to Asif Khan from the LBMA and David Williams from YP delve into strategies for SMBs to use the mobile platform to find and be found by customers.