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With Product Launches, Drift Moves Conversational Marketing Into Prime Time
By launching a Conversational Advertising product, Drift is looking to create a new category of online advertising—one that leads potential customers directly from digital ads to real conversations, without relying on the types of static landing pages and lead forms that tend to slow sales processes down.
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A ‘Radical Transformation’ Is Brewing in SMB Phones
For local businesses that rely on the phone for inbound leads (which is nearly all of them), the functionality of copper lines pales in comparison to what call-tracking-enabled lines have done for years. Unfortunately for business owners, the VoIP packages being sold to them also fall far short of the level of functionality that call tracking provides…
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Street Fight Daily: Google Adds Paid App Search, Ford Eyes On-Demand
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…Google Brings Ads to the Google Play Store (Recode)… Ford Is Experimenting With Its Own Uber-like App — And A Vehicle To Go With It (Washington Post)… Ford Is Experimenting With Its Own Uber-like App — And A Vehicle To Go With It (Washington Post)…
Street Fight Daily: Google Plans ‘Android Pay,’ Drones Hit Ad Tech
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…Google Will Launch Android Pay At I/O In May (Ars Technica)… Drones Overhead In L.A.’s Valley Are Tracking Mobile Devices’ Locations (VentureBeat)… Bigcommerce, Square Partnership Offers Omnichannel To SMBs (ZDNet)…
Location3 CEO: User Profiles From Web Giants Will Refine Ad Targeting
While programmatic advertising is still in its infancy, location targeting on these new platforms is really heating up, says Andrew Beckman. Street Fight recently caught up with Beckman to talk about the value of proximity, the problem of “dirty data” and why leveraging user profiles from Web giants could be the key to attribution…
Street Fight Daily: Facebook Gaining With Small Biz, Google Tests ‘Local Chat ‘
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…Now With 2 Million Advertisers, Facebook Is Gaining a Foothold With Small Businesses (AdWeek)… Google Search Tests “Chat” Button In Local Business Box (TechCrunch)… GoDaddy Takes Another Step To IPO (USA Today)…
Amazon and Yelp Want a Piece of Online Ordering — Here’s Why There’s Still Hope for Startups
A wave of consolidation in the food ordering industry has reignited the race to capture a $70 billion sector. But as market leaders go public and other firms barrel in on the industry, is there still room for younger companies to grow? CEO Matt Howard at EatStreet, one of the largest remaining independent ordering firms, thinks so.
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