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PureCars CEO Talks Power of Location Data—And How Some Brands Can Build Beyond It
Street Fight talked with Sam Mylrea, CEO of PureCars, a marketing automation and business intelligence suite for auto dealers, to discuss how his company uses location data to help dealerships capture the attention of nearby customers.
Street Fight Daily: Mobile to Overtake TV by 2021, Influencer Marketing Needs a Clean-Up
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Zenith: Mobile Advertising to Overtake TV by 2021… Unilever Demands Influencer Marketing Business Clean Up Its Act… Google, Rebuilding Its Presence in China, Invests in Retailer JD.com…
Street Fight Daily: Facebook’s Static Local ‘Potential,’ SMBs Assess Options to Replace Websites
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook’s Perennial ‘Potential’ in Local… Gauging the Opportunity to Replace Local Merchants’ Websites… Global Ad Spend Is Set for Monster Growth in 2018…
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Local Search Is Becoming a Mobile Experience With a Social Layer
One of the more surprising revelations from a recent comScore study is that Facebook is now the #2 mobile app for local search, behind Google Maps. This puts it ahead of Mapquest, Bing, and Apple Maps. Yelp isn’t even in the top five. Are people really using Facebook for local search? This may seem counter-intuitive to some, but consider that Facebook is by far the most popular mobile app in the world…
In Tomorrow’s Retail Universe, the Destination Is ‘You’
Based on clues we can see all around us, it is my belief that retail, as we’ve known it for at least the last two millennia, is coming to an end. It won’t end tomorrow or next week. In fact, it will likely take at least a decade or two. But it’s very clear to me that we are coming to a tipping point and data, processing power and connectedness lie at the center of it all…
The Web Isn’t a Local Broadcast Channel, It’s a Listening Post
Let legacy media be legacy media — but get used to the idea that, in a connected world, the ability to carve out new local news niches and profit centers is based, in large part, on our ability to listen. This is not a skill widely held among those who only “distribute,” but it’s one of the keys to a successful tomorrow in the network…
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Street Fight Daily: McDonald’s Orders Ahead, Oracle Puts Micros On Menu
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… McDonald’s Is Secretly Testing Its Own Order-Ahead And Payments App(BusinessInsider)… Oracle Puts Micros on Menu as Restaurants Eat Up Software (Bloomberg)… Google Is Getting Into Domains. Should GoDaddy Worry? (Mashable)…
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…
LION-Borrell Revenue Survey Unravels
A revenue benchmarking partnership between the Local Independent Online News publishers association and Borrell Associates is coming apart because too few of LION’s publishers want to share their information with the the local media research company…
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…
Street Fight Daily: Oracle Poised To Buy Micros, Ad Spending Jumps In Q1
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Oracle Poised to Seal $5 Billion Deal for Micros Systems (Wall Street Journal)… Ad Spending Jumps in First Quarter, Fueled by Olympics and Early Political Ads (AdAge)… Uber Plays Hardball With Early Shareholders (Fortune)…
Openings and New Hires at Facebook, 4INFO and WhitePages
Every two weeks, Search Influence’s 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, moves and new openings at Mobee, Turner Broadcasting, hibu, Angie’s List, Signpost and more…
How the Local Web Is Helping Neighbors Connect and Build Community
We are at the cusp of being able to solve the “last mile” problem, largely because with mobile devices we are nearing 100% access and interoperability. There are three key areas where we can make a big difference, right in our local community, with the types of information available to enrich our local lives: government; commerce and community…
Driving Growth With Mobile
2014 will be the year where key elements of the mobile tech ecosystem align to accelerate growth. Costs are falling and performance is reaching new heights at every level of the stack. VentureBeat’s seventh annual event on the future of mobile is gathering the industry’s biggest names to help you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company. And they’re offering a discount to Street Fight readers..
LBMA Podcast: VW’s Eyes on the Road Campaign, Blippar Acquires Layar
Top stories of the week feature Amazon, Regent St, Autograph, Avanade, Accenture, NinthDecimal (JiWire), PicQuest, Norton Outdoor, Placed, Retail Solutions Inc, Gigwalk, and Urban Airship…
Street Fight Daily: Apple’s ‘City Tours,’ Controversy at PayPal
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Apple’s Maps’ New “City Tours” Feature Uncovered In iOS 8 Betas (TechCrunch)…. eBay Rumors Say PayPal President David Marcus Was Fired; Execs Refute the Claims (VentureBeat)… A Reply to Clay Shirky (Columbia Journalism Review)…
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