Street Fight Daily: Google Will Test Grocery Delivery, How Facebook’s Pages Update Affects SMBs
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Becomes a Rival to Amazon to Deliver Your Fresh Fruits and Veggies (Mashable)… Facebook Update Means More Shopping Pages Are on the Way (Recode)… Amazon Launches a Food Delivery Service Via Prime Now, Starting in Seattle (TechCrunch)…
M&A Report: A Long, Hard Look at Loyalty Programs
Loyalty encompasses more than just promotions and punchcards. Tech companies that connect the data dots and create meaningful, accurate consumer personas that explain why we as consumers are loyal to a brand (not a promotion) should be able to parlay that information into new revenue per customer.
Street Fight Daily: Uber’s Big E-commerce Push, Amazon’s Restaurants Division Hires Staff
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Report: Uber to Begin E-commerce Deliveries Soon (The Next Web)… Amazon Hiring Staff for New Restaurant Division in Seattle, New York (Recode)… Once-Troubled Hyperlocal News Brand Patch Expands to Austin; Here’s the How and Why (Austin Business Journal)…
Street Fight Daily: AOL Buys Millennial Media, Facebook Serves As Forum to Buy and Sell Goods
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… AOL Buys Mobile Marketer Millennial Media for Roughly $240 Million (Marketing Land)… Facebook Advances Bazaar Ambitions (Wall Street Journal)… A New App With 2 Million Users Just Raised $100 Million to Take On eBay (Fortune)…
Street Fight Daily: Google Maps Now Suggests Restaurants, Lyft’s New Carpooling Feature
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Maps for Android Update Makes It Easier to Choose a Restaurant (The Next Web)… Lyft Line’s Express Re-Route Feature Aims to Get You Where You’re Going Faster (TechCrunch)… Sharing Economy Goes Hyperlocal With a Growing Market for Household Items (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: DoorDash Partners With 7-Eleven, How Instagram’s Latest Update Affects Advertising
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Delivery Startup DoorDash Is Promising to Send 7-Eleven Food and Drinks to Your Home in 45 Minutes or Less (Business Insider)… New, Stretched-Out Instagram Means More Ads (Mashable)… As Giant Platforms Rise, Local News is Getting Crushed (Nieman Lab)…
Street Fight Daily: Yahoo’s ReachLocal Partnership, Amazon Wants to Deliver From Farmers Markets
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Yahoo Follows Google in Building Out Local Search Marketing Reseller Program (Search Engine Land)… Amazon Is Testing Farmers Market Produce Delivery (Los Angeles Times)… Google Reportedly Kills Plan to Let Retailers Send Notifications in Maps (The Verge)…
Street Fight Daily: Google’s Home Services Features Are Live, How Effective Are Digital Coupons?
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Plunges Into Home Services Market (Wall Street Journal)… Pitt Study Finds Location-Based Marketing a Mixed Bag (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)… Our Marketplace Obsession and Bubble (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: Square Introduces Mobile Appointments, SF Wants Uber’s Data
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Here’s Why Square Appointments for Mobile is a Big Deal (The Next Web)… SF Seeks Uber Data as Company Touts Commitment to Urban Transit (Recode)… Blink and You Miss It: How Brands Can Capture an Audience in Seconds (Linkedin Pulse)…