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Street Fight Daily: Advertisers Debate Ads Data Hub as Google ID Vanishes, Verifone Partners with TruRating
TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING… As Google Restricts Its Ad ID, Advertisers Debate Whether to Use Ads Data Hub… TruRating, Verifone Deal Highlights Importance of Customer Feedback Data… Newly Launched Block Club Chicago (Out of DNAinfo) Goes a ‘Bit Old School’…
TruRating, Verifone Deal Highlights Importance of Customer Feedback Data
In a move that highlights just how important customer feedback data has become to mid-size businesses, the global payments and commerce juggernaut Verifone recently announced that it’s partnering with TruRating, a comparatively small but influential customer insight company that specializes in point-of-sale customer feedback solutions.
Home Services Company Porch Acquires Rival Serviz
Seattle-based home services platform Porch has struck a deal to buy rival on-demand home services platform Serviz, growing the former’s network of home professionals to new markets, the company announced on Wednesday morning.
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Shopkeep Founder: Micros/Oracle Deal Won’t Help SMBs
With its acquisition of Micros, Oracle is affirming its commitment to making, selling, and continually repairing outdated technology that has far outlived its usefulness. This approach, while wasteful, works for big companies with million-dollar IT budgets — but small businesses neither want nor need technology that sits in a room and takes up space…
No, the Amazon Smartphone Isn’t Going to Kill Retail
The in-store experience provides tremendous benefits to shoppers, and the Amazon Fire phone further illustrates the opportunity to use innovative mobile solutions to improve and influence the shopping experience…
Is ‘Efficiency’ at Odds with Your Local Sales Force?
With the economy on the uptick, businesses in local should have more wiggle-room in how they choose to increase efficiency. Whereas fear may have motivated them to move towards labor cuts in the past, now they should feel the freedom to invest in long-term solutions…
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Thinknear Chief: ‘No Doubt’ That Consolidation Coming in Mobile Ads
Loren Hillberg recently took over as General Manager of Thinknear at Telenav, replacing the company’s founder Eli Portnoy. We caught up with him recently to talk about the transition from the entrepreneurial stage of a business to the scaling stage, the future of mobile-local advertising, and the coming wave of consolidation…
Street Fight Daily: Oracle Buys Datalogix, Secret Adds Location-based Sharing
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…Oracle Buys Datalogix, Beefs Up Digital Marketing Cloud (ZDNet)
Oracle on Monday said it acquired Datalogix, which provides digital marketing data as a service. The deal complements Oracle’s acquisition of BlueKai and rounds out its digital marketing suite. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but for Oracle Datalogix is a stocking stuffer that gives it yet another pillar to offer data as a service and another cloud product to sell… Secret’s Relaunch Adds Location-based Sharing (VentureBeat)
The broadcasting of public posts is now split between those from friends and those that are location-based, similarly to Yik Yak, another anonymous mobile app focused on college campuses and local communities… In China, a Rapid Jump to Mobile Advertising (New York Times)…
Openings and New Hires at Dex Media, Yext, Angie’s List, and LocalVox
Every two weeks, Kelly Benish — who knows practically everyone in hyperlocal — covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. In this week’s edition, new jobs and hires at Microsoft, Colony Logic, Soleo, PlaceIQ, Fixya, and Placed…
Lessons Learned From the Call Analytics Trenches
It may be a long time before the true value of call analytics data is fully realized, but I’ve been recording the digital marketing revolution one (often uncertain) hello at a time…
LBMA Podcast: Maps on Clothes, Smart Screens
On the show: TGI Fridays’ drone attack; Health Insurance benefits with Misfit; search as signal by Mindshare and Google; Monochrome; pop-up Libraries; smart screens by Photon and Panasonic; eBay Australia’s 24-hour Christmas Windows…
Street Fight Daily: Google Measures “Store Visits,” Square Resurrects Wallet
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…… Google’s Making It Easier to Figure Out if Online Ads Actually Drive In-Store Traffic (AdWeek)… Square Is Resurrecting Wallet, Its Pay-By-Name Mobile App, And Giving It Away (ReadWrite)… Can Wal-Mart Clerks Ship as Fast as Amazon Robots? (Wall Street Journal)…
4 Strategies to Increase Pay-Per-Call ROI for SMBs
Phone leads are inarguably effective. Nearly one in five incoming calls are what SMBs consider “quality leads,” a figure that beats those leads coming from email, online forms, Facebook, and even in-store visits…
Twitter and Foursquare Make a Better Match Than You’d Think
Reports surfaced yesterday that Twitter may partner with Foursquare to help the microblogging service develop a new local discovery feature. In the perennial speculation about Foursquare’s future, the rumors lead us to ask: would a Twitter tie-up make sense?
From Print to Patch to His Own ‘Indie’ Site — A 25-Year Saga
Steven Jack, who was regional editor for eight Patch sites before leaving in the first round of layoffs, did what many of his terminated colleagues did — he started his own independent site. In less than a year, he has captured 31,000 unique visitors for his Only Oswego, which more than equals the town’s population…
Street Fight Daily: Angie’s List Shuffles Brass, Amazon’s One-Hour Delivery
\A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…… Amazon Brings One-Hour Delivery To NYC With Prime Now (TechCrunch)… Angie’s List Shuffles Brass, Names Third Tech Chief In Two Years (Indianapolis Business Journal)… Like Tinder, But For Creative Professionals: How Thumbtack Is Remaking The Gig Economy (Fusion)…
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