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Expert Roundup: How Will Retail Transform in 2021? Part II

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In part II of our retail expert roundup, we cover mixed reality’s role in retail, data, and privacy compliance, and how retail can recover and rebound in 2021.

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Retailers Use AI to Rebuild the Customer Experience

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Retailers are using artificial intelligence to enhance the customer experience and also run their own back-end operations more efficiently.

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How Agencies Can Thrive as Data Restrictions, and Walled Gardens, Gain Strength

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Agencies must figure out how to help clients navigate the new privacy era of digital ad targeting. They can thrive despite new advantages for walled gardens.

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Evolving Our Lens for Local Ranking Factors

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Blumenthal and Mihm: We in the Local Search industry are not served by relying so heavily on traditional SEO logic and tools—in our approach to the Local Pack, our understanding of the ranking factors, and even what we suggest to clients as appropriate activities.

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LBMA Podcast: Spent Retail Analytics, Reveal Mobile Black Friday Report

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On this week’s LBMA show: Spent retail analytics, LinkSure free global WiFi, Casino competes with AmazonGo in France, McDonald’s dancing in the streets of Bogata, Shopkick + Unilever & Walmart, Verve + AdCouncil for Goodwill. Special Research—Reveal Mobile Black Friday Report.

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Mike Ragsdale Says Putting Community First Makes His ‘Indie’ 30A Site a Big Winner

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In this Q&A, 30A founder Mike Ragsdale itemizes what he thinks his industry is doing wrong and how 30A, by making community paramount, has become the top revenue-producing site among independents.

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LBMA Podcast: Ant Financial, Proxama + Primesight, PlaceIQ

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This Week in Location Based Marketing is a weekly video podcast from the Location Based Marketing Association with Asif Khan and Aubriana Lopez. On the show: Coke’s AI vending machine, Dex merges with YP, Commutestream.

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Raise Report: New Funding for NewStore, Dynamic Yield, Convoy

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Every two weeks, we round up some of the biggest fundraises taking place in hyperlocal marketing, commerce, and tech. This week’s edition includes new funding for PebblePost, SnapTravel, Node, and SimilarWeb.

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Street Fight Daily: AI Is Already Reshaping Retail, Facebook Releases Details on News Subscription Feature

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Artificial Intelligence Is Already Reshaping Retail in Profound Ways… Facebook Releases Details on Upcoming Subscription-Based News Product… What Retailers Think About the Store of the Future…

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Why Insurance Giant State Farm Approaches Digital Marketing Like a Small Company

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At a time when customers are accustomed to looking up insurance quotes on the Web or through an app, Edward Gold, advertising director at State Farm, says his company thrives off of its local interactions. He spoke with Street Fight about the approach the insurer takes with marketing at the local level.

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How Local News Publishers Can Score With Proximity Marketing

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Proximity marketing is becoming increasingly popular as brands and local merchants try to reach consumers on the go. In this Q & A, James Ewen, marketing manager at UK-based proximity-marketer Tamoco talks about how local news publishers can benefit from this trend.

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Street Fight Daily: Facebook Thrives While Twitter Dives, Snap Monetizes Placed Acquisition

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook Defies Expectations, Posting Big Growth Despite Warnings That Revenue Will Slow… Twitter User Growth Stalls, and Investors Respond in Kind… Here’s How Snap’s Placed-Assisted Attribution Abilities Will Garner Revenue…

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Foursquare Analysis Highlights Looming Bubble for Boutique Fitness Studios

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Forget those New Year’s resolutions. The biggest surge in attendance at gyms and boutique fitness studios actually happens in the spring and early summer, according to a new analysis of foot traffic patterns by the data science team at Foursquare.

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Alignable Rankings Show Lead Generation, Hiring Categories Primed for Disruption

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Small businesses are largely at the mercy of the online reviews published on sites like Yelp and Facebook, but now those business owners have turned the tables with some tough critiques for technology vendors in a new report published by the SMB social networking platform Alignable.

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Street Fight Daily: Social Shapes Young People’s Shopping Decisions, LinkedIn Adds Brand Insights

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… 80% of Gen-Zers, 74% of Millenials Say Social Influences Their Shopping Choices… LinkedIn Allows Brands to Track Who Is Visiting Their Sites… How Uber Is Trying to Fix Itself…

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Building a Local Stack: The Rise of ‘SMB OS’

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SMB OS includes the full range of business services that traditionally fall outside of – but are related to – advertising. It’s POS systems, supply chain, payroll, insurance, appointment scheduling, online ordering, CRM… even HR.

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