News and Analysis

Raise Report: Dynamic Yield, Optoro, Gusto Score New Funding

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Every two or three weeks, we round up some of the biggest fundraises taking place in hyperlocal marketing, commerce, and tech. This week’s report also includes funding for Spark Neuro, StreetLight Data, Shedul, and Teamleader.

Street Fight Daily: Investors to Buy Dun & Bradstreet, Yelp Soars on Ad Biz Growth

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING… Investors to Buy Dun & Bradstreet in Multi-Billion Dollar Deal… Yelp Shares Surge on Ad Biz Growth… Hires and New Openings at Dream Local, Adsquare, PubMatic…

Indi Tackles Inauthenticity in Influencer Marketing Space

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Consumers have grown weary of synchronized sponsored content flooding their Instagram feeds, and brands are being inundated by requests for freebies from self-proclaimed social media stars. That evolution in the influencer marketing space has created an opening that Indi CEO and founder Neel Grover believes his new platform can fill.

Commentary

How Personalization And Security Will Coexist in Local Commerce

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The evolution of mobile technology has been very exciting to observe, especially in the local commerce space. As I covered in my last piece we are finally starting to see things come to life with the ability to pay for everyday products and services using mobile devices. But overall one has to ask if this […]

Did Apple Just Transform Pay-Per-Call (Without Anyone Noticing)?

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OSX Yosemite’s “Continuity” feature has received surprisingly little media attention in general and zero coverage for its implications for call monetization. But it could be a glimpse into the sector’s future.

Can Traditional Retailers Nail Digital Before Amazon Figures Out Brick-and-Mortar?

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It was never a question of if, but when. Anyone tracking the retail industry knew the day would come for Amazon to open… ahem… a brick-and-mortar storefront. Now Amazon’s familiar slanted smile logo will hang from a shingle in Manhattan right down the street from Macy’s flagship Herald Square store, just in time for the […]

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Florists Hate Valentine’s Day — BloomNation Thinks It Can Change Their Mind

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Americans will spend $18.9 billion on flowers, candy and more for the holiday — but the spike in demand typically does not translate into big profits for small flower shops…

How Iowa’s Gazette Is Working to Make Deep-Dive Local Journalism Sustainable

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Display ads, even successfully targeted ones, aren’t likely to pay for the resources that go into The Gazette’s innovative journalism, where packages can take weeks or months to produce. As a result, sponsorships and memberships are the focus…

Street Fight Daily: Google’s New Payment Project, Real Estate’s Digital Decline

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…Google Said To Be Testing A Point-of-sale System Called Plaso (GigaOm)… Borrell: Real Estate To Scale Back On Digital (NetNewCheck)… An Attribution Standard? IPG, Horizon, Digitas and Others Agree to Use One Firm (AdAge)…

Uber and Foursquare Co-Founders Lead $15M Investment in Dining App Reserve

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Expa, the startup accelerator founded by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp and Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai, has led a $15 million venture investment in Reserve. The round included a number of celebrity investors including actors Jon Favreau and Jared Leto as well as rapper Will.i.am…

Yelp Acquires Eat24, Bringing the Battle to GrubHub

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The company announced Tuesday it had acquired Eat24, a food ordering service, for $134 million in both cash and stock. The acquisition positions Yelp on a collision course with GrubHub, the online ordering firm that went public last year after merging with the New York-based Seamless.

5 Tools for Mobile Customer Service

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Catering to customer demand doesn’t have to mean scouring Twitter and Yelp for negative reviews all day long. Using one or more hyperlocal platforms, even the smallest merchants can introduce the types of mobile customer service channels their customers want. Here are five examples…

Street Fight Daily: Yelp Buys GrubHub Competitor, Facebook Eyes Craigslist

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…Yelp Acquires Eat24, Bringing the Battle to GrubHub (Street Fight)… Facebook Update Looks a Lot Like Craigslist (Recode)… SMBs Divided On The Effectiveness Of Google My Business (Search Engine Land)…

Brands Ignoring Local Search Are ‘Kicking Away’ the Opportunity Google Is Giving Them

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Street Fight recently caught up with David Mihm, the director of local search strategy at Moz, to talk about the impact of Google’s latest local search update on multi-location brands, the state of local search’s shift to mobile, and what a rash of new vertical sites means for Google…

Why So Many Local Search Sites Are Adding Business Services

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Strategies around SEO, listings management and SEM have long helped businesses generate clicks, calls and store visits. And while this remains true, search sites have recently begun putting more emphasis on adding tools and services that look to accelerate the purchase process…

Sponsored Post: Market2SmallBiz Helps Companies Understand Small Businesses

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Market2SmallBiz brings together marketing professionals who focus on reaching small businesses. This is a day of of learning, networking, exchanging of ideas and problem solving…