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Street Fight Daily: QSRs Innovative With Mobile Apps, MINDBODY to Acquire Booker
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Fast-Food Brands Are Making Slick Mobile Apps to Stay Ahead of the Competition… YouTube Debuts Search-Based Video Ad Targeting… American Online Shoppers Are More Impatient Than Ever, All Thanks to Amazon….
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Will eBay Be the Next Giant in Local?
It’s not just about where users are spatially, or what device they’re on. It’s a function of where they are in the proverbial purchase funnel — the increasingly convoluted path between offline and offline worlds that leads from awareness to purchase. “The boundaries between the physical and digital world have disappeared, says WHERE’s Walt Doyle, “and the purchase funnel has become a purchase pretzel.”
Should All Ad Impressions on Mobile Devices Really Count as ‘Mobile?’
For mobile advertising to reach its true potential the industry needs to start looking more closely at the nature of a mobile impression and applying more scalable and accurate ways to target users. The current one-size-fits-all approach is simply not going to work as users are increasingly cutting the cord and relying entirely on their tablets or phones…
When Big Brands Go Local, They Need to Think Social
Social networks have become increasingly relevant in the local search space for consumers. Social’s impact on local search is far from limited to searches performed on local networks, though. It’s also impacting traditional search results, rankings and relevance. Here are three local-social tactics that need to be included in every national brand’s digital strategy…
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Phone Leads for Local Businesses: The Unsexy Cousin of the Click
We’re seeing tech and media worlds finally come around to what we’ve been saying for years: phone calls are what businesses want. That’s especially true in high-value categories like professional services, autos, travel and insurance. Clicks and impressions, despite a sexier image, aren’t as valued in lots of cases…
8 Ways Hyperlocals Can Nurture Existing Customer Relationships
The question that many hyperlocal vendors struggle with is how to keep their current customers satisfied without slashing prices or devoting too many resources to a single client. Here are eight strategies from hyperlocal experts, with specific advice on how to grow and nurture existing customer relationships.
Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial CEO to Step Down, Court Rules Against Yelp
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy Stepping Down (Washington Post)… Court Rules That Yelp Must Unmask the Identities of Seven Anonymous Reviewers (Atlantic)… What Does the Closure of O2 Wallet Say About the Future of Mobile Payments? (GigaOm)…
Placed CEO: In the Real World, It’s People — Not Places — That Matter
There’s a broader effort in the technology community to chart consumer behavior in the real-world, using mobile devices to measure movement throughout the the world as marketers use cookies trace users as the browse the web. Street Fight recently caught up with David Shim, the chief executive at Placed, to discuss the ins and out of charting consumer behavior in the real-world…
Mobile Media Summit Brings Together Top Agencies, Marketers for SF Event
The second-annual Mobile Media Summit San Francisco: Apps and Ads on January 21st at the Westin Market Street will bring together the biggest names in advertising and marketing to discuss the secrets to successful app marketing, as well as the most important topics facing the mobile industry. Street Fight readers get a discount…
LBMA Podcast: Vodka-Powered Smoke Signals
On the show: Strongbow embeds RFID chips in bottle caps; Moto X gives print a dose of interactivity; Tata taps your smartphone for usage-based insurance. The app of the week is Openbay; the resource of the week deciphers why customer service is more important than advertising. Special guest is David Rush, founder of Earshot.
Street Fight Daily: How Ford Uses Location Data, Radius Raises $13 M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… How Chrysler, Ford, GM, Others Use Auto Location Data (AdAge)… Palantir Co-Founder Chases New Data Source: Small Businesses (Wall Street Journal)… In an Economics Experiment, Uber Cuts Prices in 16 Cities (Businessweek)…
With Privacy Debate in Rear View, Euclid Looks to Make Offline Analytics Mainstream
The clamor that erupted last year after the Wall Street Journal and other mainstream outlets reported that some big retailers passively tracked users in their stores has waned in recent months, opening the door for an emergent offline analytics sector to become a mainstay retail industry. Euclid, the company that quickly became the poster-child for in-store tracking during the debate, is making its core tracking technology free this morning in an attempt to lure in the millions of smaller, more apprehensive retailers across the country…
Nomi Adds In-store Messaging to Offline Measurement
The New York-based startup is moving deeper into the proximity marketing business by adding in-store messaging capabilities to its existing measurement and analytics products. The proximity marketing product, Nomi Mobile, uses a Bluetooth LE beacon to enable retailers to send notifications, rewards, and other messaging to customers on their existing mobile applications as they walk through the store…
How Local Publishers Can Score With Sponsorships: One Yard at a Time
I spoke recently to the indefatigable Teresa Wippel, founder and publisher of the indie My Edmonds News north of Seattle, about her search for new revenue stream. In 2011, two years after she began her site, she turned to a sponsorship model for streamed high school football coverage to supplement her modest display revenue. The result has been a significant source of new revenue from seven local sponsors…
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