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Street Fight Daily: Cash Comes Rolling In for Big Tech, Uber Adds Multi-Stop Rides
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Big Tech Companies Post Glowing Quarterly Profits… Uber Launches Multi-Stop Trips in U.S. and Canada, Facilitating Detours at Local Businesses… When It Comes to Ad Quality, Programmatic Isn’t the Problem…
Hyperlocal Pioneer Howard Owens Sees New Mobile App as Key to Scaling Beyond His ‘Batavian’
Eight and a half years after launching his hyperlocal news site The Batavian, in upstate New York, Howard Owens is looking at growing his base company, Album Corp., beyond Batavia to multiple locations. His plan for expansion is driven by a homemade mobile app that he’s experimenting with for the site.
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5 Can’t-Miss SXSWi Panels for the Local-Obsessed
The annual SXSW Interactive Festival starts tomorrow and runs through Tuesday. With five days packed with a wide range of panels and presentations, the confab can be thrilling and overwhelming at the same time. Here are five sessions focused on the future of local and social that Street Fight readers will be especially interested in…
Case Study: Nationwide Property Manager Uses PPC, SEO to Boost ROI
At Lincoln Property Company, vice president Jennifer Staciokas takes a holistic approach to marketing the 140,000+ apartment units her company currently manages. By creating independent community websites focused on the local areas that Lincoln Property serves, along with aggressive PPC, retargeting and SEO campaigns managed by ReachLocal, the management firm has been able to increase conversion rates and boost the number of signed leases…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon to Stick with Model, Retailigence Nabs $6.3M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Groupon CFO: No Changes to Business Model (Wall Street Journal)… Local Search Update for Google Maps iOS Could Hurt Yelp (Venture Beat)… Retailigence Bags $6.3M for Online-to-Offline Marketing (Vator News)…
6 Post-Couponing Tools for Merchants
Customer return rates on traditional coupons are notoriously low. So rather than saying goodbye to the customers they fought hard to acquire, SMBs are increasingly offering follow-up deals, known as “post-couponing.” Post-couponing platforms give businesses a way to drive incremental revenue by providing additional value to customers who have redeemed mobile coupons. Here are six platforms that provide post-couponing tools for businesses of all sizes…
Conference Notebook: Rethinking the Local ‘User Experience’
After four years of slowed growth, local advertising spend has finally rebounded to pre-2008 levels with digital revenues up 31% in 2012. Speaking at the Local Online Advertising Conference in New York Monday, Gordon Borrell, CEO of Borrell Associates, said that local online marketing spend will reach $24.5 billion by 2016, driven largely by growth in non-advertising marketing services…
On Path to IPO, Yodle Buys Lighthouse 360 to ‘Close the Loop’
Yodle, a marketing platform for small businesses, has
announced the acquisition of LightHouse 360, a customer
relationship management (CRM) tool for dentists, in a move to tie
its customer acquisition efforts into the broader operational
infrastructure of small businesses. Yodle’s chief executive, Court
Cunningham, also told Street Fight in an interview that his company
is “strongly considering” an IPO…
Limits on Behavioral Ads Could Bring Higher CPMs for Publishers
On an Internet without online behavioral advertising, publishers with a premium audience will be in higher demand, and this will result over time in increased CPMs and increased revenue. It will be a step back in time to where premium publishers and ad networks (not exchanges) were handling most of the media buys.
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