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Raise Report: Foursquare, CrowdRiff, Mode Secure Fresh Funding
Every two or three weeks, we round up some of the biggest fundraises taking place in hyperlocal marketing, commerce, and tech. This week’s edition includes funding for Instana, Hopper, Qonto, and Stringr.
Street Culture: Vendasta’s Intention Behind Job Perks and Fun at Work
“The way we see it is, you can break your life up into four pieces,” says CEO Brendan King. “Family, sleep, tasks, and work. If I want my employees to focus on work, I don’t want to take away from their time with their families or from their sleep, but I would like to take away some of those tasks.
Street Fight Daily: Instagram Prototypes Giving User Location History to Facebook; Ideal Ad Time—6 Seconds?
TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Instagram Prototypes Handing Your Location History to Facebook… Street Culture: Vendasta’s Intention Behind Job Perks and Fun at Work… Six-Second Ads: It’s All About Context…
Commentary
Apple Makes Quiet Gains in Local Mapping
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
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
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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Lessons Learned While Building a Hyperlocal Startup
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
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
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
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
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…
Study: Legacy and Pure-Play News Sites Vie for Millennial Readers
Newspaper websites get higher “most informed” numbers than pure plays — but the pure plays have a strong command of their audience…
Sponsored Post: Leveraging Geomarketing and Mobile Advertising to Effectively Engage Key Customers
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Street Fight Daily: Wall Street Defends Yelp, xAd’s Big Hires
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Stop Bullying Yelp, Analysts Say (MarketWatch)… Former Twitter Programmatic Head Gelb, 3 Others Join xAd (MediaPost)… Amazon Can Now Start Testing Out a Drone Delivery System in the US (Quartz)…
7 Online Booking Platforms for Independent Businesses
online booking platforms are providing a way for independent businesses to meet a rising demand from consumers who want to schedule, confirm, and in some cases even pay for local services through their mobile devices…
4 Musts for Making Mobile Click-to-Call Work
In a Street Fight webinar Thursday sponsored by Telmetrics, Jay Weintraub, CEO and founder of grow.co, and CJ Arseneau, VP of marketing for Telmetrics, addressed how companies are moving closer to tracking customer purchase behavior from an online impression to offline action…
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