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Street Fight Daily: Google Bought MasterCard Data for Attribution, Free Coffee for Consumer Data?

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Google and MasterCard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Establish Attribution… Why Publishers Are Transitioning to Affiliate Marketing… Possibly Foreshadowing Retail Trend to Come, a Shop Exchanges ‘Free’ Coffee for Data…

Why Publishers Are Transitioning to Affiliate Marketing

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Affiliate marketing spend will hit $6.8 billion by 2020, as major publishers like Business Insider, Forbes, and Conde Nast shift their approach in order to appeal to advertisers who are demanding more transparency and value.

Street Culture: Adcellerant Won’t Take Your Coffee Away

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Adcellerant has been on Inc.’s Best Workplaces list for the last two years and ranked as the No. 2 best place to work in Colorado for a medium-sized company this year by the Denver Business Journal. The company was founded in 2013 and currently employs about 40 people.

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Apple Makes Quiet Gains in Local Mapping

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Apple has much ground to cover to convince the world that Mapgate never happened. App integration is one step in that direction. If the company can pull it off, it will also fulfill its prevailing goal of selling more iThings…

For Facebook (And Others), Small Businesses Aren’t the Focus

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Facebook’s decision to throttle organic reach has drawn ire among the small business community, and led some in the technology industry to question its future. The company is making very clear that the consumer is its real focus…

How Small Businesses Can Nail Social Marketing

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A strong social media presence can be a hugely powerful tool for any small business. With even a limited amount of time and effort you can create new opportunities for customers to engage with or discover your brand and strengthen your relationships with your target audience…

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Local Startups Need to Focus Less on Consumers, More on Businesses

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Founders mistakenly interpret the investment thesis of the local technology industry — the billions in local spending moving onto digital networks — and see a chance to rethink the way we buy before fully considering the vast changes occurring in the way the supply side of the market operates.

5 Tools for Location-Based Audience Profiling

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With location-based audience profiling, marketers have the opportunity to connect online metrics to in-store sales. This allows for smarter media planning and results in a higher ROI on digital campaigns…

#LDS15 VIDEO: “Put the Internet Into Products — Not Products on the Internet”

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In a presentation at Street Fight’s Local Data Summit, technologist Chris Dancy spoke about the blurring lines between privacy and convenience: “If your life is a platform, how you live your life is going to become very important.”

Street Fight Daily: Yelp Expands Platform, Waze Sells Ads

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Yelp Hooks Up With Startups To Offer A Larger Selection Of E-Commerce Bookings (TechCrunch)… With Turn-by-Turn Directions, Google’s Waze App Wants to Win Mobile Advertising (AdWeek)… How Big Is Google’s Mobile-Friendly Algorithm? Bigger Than Panda Or Penguin (Search Engine Land)…

How Packaged Goods Companies Use Location to Market on Mobile

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The benefits of location data are obvious for retailers with physical storefronts, but can consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands capitalize in similar ways? More and more, the answer is yes, according to SITO’s Adam Meshekow. Some of the largest CPG brands started to ramp up mobile spending last year as they look to influence an increasingly smartphone-wielding shopper…

Lessons Learned While Building a Hyperlocal Startup

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I recently asked our sales team what they thought about serving the local market. I drilled down on what it’s like to build a hyperlocal company in today’s ever-connected world and how to best handle the inherent challenges of this unique customer base…

#LDS15 VIDEO: Payments, Panels, and the Push for Mobile Attribution

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Offline attribution has become one of the defining challenges of the mobile advertising industry. Consumers are often using their devices to purchases in stores — not online — creating a measurement headache for brands and media buyers.

Street Fight Daily: Foursquare Partners With Twitter, Amazon Eyes Hotel Business

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Why Twitter and Foursquare Just Struck a Deal (Fortune)… Amazon’s New Hotel Business Begins to Take Shape (Skift)… Mobile Will Account for 72% of US Digital Ad Spend by 2019 (eMarketer)…

How Multi-Location Brands Can Dominate Local SEO

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There have never been more ways to find a Starbucks. You can go to the store locator on the website: chances are, it will be the mobile version, because that’s how local search happens more often than not. Or you could use the Google Maps, Apple Maps, Bing Maps, or HERE Maps apps. Or you could […]

Sponsored Post: Ad Phrasing — Wording a PPC Ad for Best Performance

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This post is sponsored by Soleo. Few marketers understand how ad phrasing and keyword specificity influence conversions. Thirty-nine percent of consumers say they “always” or “frequently” call a business when they are looking to make a purchase or a transaction…