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Report: Consumers Seek Transparency From Brands on Social Media

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In surveying 1,000 U.S. consumers, the social media management platform Sprout Social found that 86% believe transparency from businesses is more important now than ever before, and more than half say they want brands to be more transparent on social media.

How Brand Marketers Can Capture Consumer Attention on Mobile

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With mobile ad spend set to surpass television for the first time this year, brand marketers are in a frenzy looking for smarter ways to generate the highest possible ROI from their investments. The problem, it seems, is that many brand marketers aren’t fully comfortable with mobile strategy.

Street Fight Daily: Google Introduces ‘Ad Strength’ Metric, What Brand Marketers See in AI

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING… Google Introduces ‘Ad Strength,’ New Metric to Assess Relevance of Ad Copy… Survey: Multi-Location Brands Warm to AI, See It as Most Useful for Email… Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law on Its Own Terms…

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On-Demand Local Services: The End of SMB Advertising as We Know It?

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On-demand local services flip the traditional local advertising model. Instead of marketing proactively to generate demand, that demand is captured and revealed for service providers to react in real time. Put another way: Marketing is replaced with a commerce engine…

Are You Ready for the ‘Geosocial’ Revolution?

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Anthony Longo is a guest contributor. If you would like to contribute a post to Street Fight, contact us here. When Dan Adams and I decided to build what would become CO Everywhere, we didn’t have a “category” in mind. We didn’t think about a “vertical” we’d fit under. We weren’t in the business of […]

Is There Such a Thing as ‘Too Local’ in SEO?

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All things in moderation, including your geo-targeting. There are some instances where every single business should embrace local strategies, but if you go too local, you might miss out on some great clients and projects…

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#LDS15: Taking Programmatic Advertising Into the Real World

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“Programmatic [advertising] is getting more complex in the ecosphere,” Andrew Beckman, CEO of Location3 Media said. “When you’re able to have the right messaging across all channels, and [the consumer] is moving around with their phone or searching from their desktop, I believe you’ll be able to attract that consumer into your store or purchase something within a specific local area.”

Street Fight Daily: Apple Pay’s Slow Growth, Postmates Delivers Starbucks

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… 85% Of iPhone 6 Owners In The U.S. Haven’t Bothered Trying Apple Pay, Study Claims (VentureBeat)… Starbucks Delivery Is Real and It’s Coming to Seattle and the Empire State Building (Recode)… GoDaddy’s IPO To Value Web Hosting Company At $2.87 Billion (Reuters)…

How Brands and Publishers Are Thinking About Beacons

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“The data and analytics is important but in the end, it has to be about improving the customer experience first,” said Jennifer Bordner, marketing manager at Old Navy, during a panel at SXSW Interactive in Austin Tuesday. “What can technology do that feels more natural than an extra burden. In the end, it’s about bridging that gap between the physical and digital [experience] in a way that feels natural.”

7 Ways Hyperlocal Vendors Benefit From Self-Serve Sales Models

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By doing away with expensive sales teams and giving local merchants a way to buy ads or services through automated systems, vendors can keep acquisition costs low and also reduce churn…

Street Fight Daily: Uber Opens API, DoorDash Raises $35M

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Gives Outside Vendors Ability To Request Rides (USA Today)… DoorDash Raises New VC From Kleiner Perkins (Fortune)… Local Marketer LocalVox Buys MarketMeSuite So Social Management Can Become A To-Do List (VentureBeat)…

Facebook SMB Chief: We’re Changing — Small Businesses Need to Change With Us

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In an interview with Street Fight, Jonathan Czaja, the head of small business in North America at Facebook, says that the uproar among small business over the changes stems from a broader shift of the social network as an advertising platform…

#LDS15 VIDEO: How MasterCard Uses Its Payments Data to Understand Customers

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During a presentation at Street Fight’s Local Data Summit in Denver earlier this month, Cristobal von Walstrom, vice president of location intelligence at MasterCard Advisors, said that the company is adding information to a 10 petabyte database at a rate of 160,000 transactions per hour, which deliver a range of insights about the businesses where those transactions take place…

Sponsored Content: Shift Gears with Mobile Media Summit for the 4th Annual “Cars and Stars” Event

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Sponsored Content Mobile Media Summit, the largest mobile media and advertising conference in North America and Europe, is returning home to Los Angeles on April 7 for the city’s biggest mobile-industry gathering at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The focus at the fourth-annual show will be on mobile marketing in the automotive and entertainment industries. ”Major […]

Why Email Marketing Is Still Vital for SMBs

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Small business owners often won’t reach out to existing customers in a regular way because they are afraid of “spamming” them. Ironically, however, it doesn’t stop these merchants from advertising and posting the same messages repeatedly on social media…

Street Fight Daily: Pinterest’s $11B Valuation, Google Now Opens Up

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Pinterest Raises $367 Million, Pushing It Past $1 Billion Raised In All (TechCrunch)… An Open Google Now Is About To Make Android Super Smart (Wired)… Google Maps Upends Primary Data Suppliers – YP.CA Is Out (Blumenthal)…