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Street Fight Daily: Facebook Wants Brands on Messenger, Adobe Courts Retailers

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook Is Adding More Advertising Objectives for Brands Using Messenger… Adobe Wants to Make Every Online Retailer More Analytical… Publishers Want More Data, Monetization Options from Facebook, Google, and Apple…

Street Fight Daily: Walmart Tests Grocery Delivery, YouTube Rolls Out Marketing Tool

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Walmart Partners with Deliv to Test Grocery Delivery Direct to Fridge… YouTube Uses Data to Create Thousands of Ads from Assets in One Video Campaign… Why Brands Continue to Invest in Digital Advertising Despite Industry Roadblocks…

5 Ways Brands Can Use POS Data for Targeted Customer Marketing

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Connected point-of-sale systems are playing a central role for brands looking to develop more targeted marketing strategies. Here are five examples of ways that brands are strategically using their POS systems for targeted customer marketing right now.

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Daily Deals: Still Lucrative for Local Publishers

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Given the challenges facing pure-play daily deal companies (and the saturation of news stories chronicling their issues), a casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that the deals space is experiencing a major downturn. Recent studies, however, suggest a more bullish outlook for deals in 2013…

Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial Hires CMO, Patch Talks Profitability

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.…. AOL Says One Out of Nine Patch Sites Profitable (SmartMoney)… Former Best Buy CMO Barry Judge Joins LivingSocial to Head Marketing (AllThingsD)… A Dire Prediction For Foursquare, With a Big Asterisk (Forbes)…

PayPal Media Network’s Doyle on eBay’s Local Push and ‘Closing the Loop’

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Walt Doyle, who was CEO of Where at its acquisition, now serves as general manager of PayPal Media Network. Street Fight caught up with Doyle recently to talk about “closing the loop,” building a local marketplace, and rethinking advertising’s role in the hyperlocal space.

Street Fight Poll: Consumers May Pay Extra for Same-Day Delivery

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In a recent Street Fight poll, 64% of consumers said they might be willing to pay a few dollars extra to receive retail goods faster, though for many it depends on the order. In a poll of 500 anonymous U.S. consumers, 14.8% said they’re very likely to pay extra for same-day retail delivery, and 14.8% said they’re somewhat likely…

6 Tools Local Publishers Can Use to Build Business Directories

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Directories give publishers a way to target local advertisers with a low-cost, self-serve alternative to traditional banners and display ads. Just as important, they provide instant value to readers interested in learning more about the merchants in their hometowns…

Street Fight Daily: Why Hyperlocals Flop, Everyblock Launches Ads

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.The Neighborhood Watch: Why Do Community News Sites, Once Hailed as the Future of Journalism, so Often Flop? (AdWeek)… EveryBlock Launches Native Ads (Everyblock Blog)… Far Fewer People Are Using Facebook Offers Than Facebook’s News Feed Says (Business Insider)…

Location + Mobile + Ads: Verve CEO Says People Are Set to Get It

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“I think 2013 is the year that people will begin understand that mobile advertising will soon be the premium channel for all digital advertising,” says Verve Mobile’s chief, Tom MacIsaac. “If you want to reach users when they are out and about, interacting with the real world, closer to the buying decision than ever before, mobile will be the preferred channel. Mobile will begin to do to online advertising what online did to print.”

Using Geotargeting to Follow the Consumer from Desktop to Aisle

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The choice of a location-based solution should depend on what message marketers want to convey to whom and when, along with how much consumer contact and engagement they want. As consumers continue to demand the ability to shop on their own terms and the local shopping experience becomes even more entrenched in the buying psyche, retailers will need a three-pronged digital strategy with a strong geotargeting component to be competitive…

Street Fight Daily: Ford Adds Glympse, TribLocal Head Exits

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Ford Adds Support For Glympse, Lets Friends Know When You’ll Arrive (Mashable)… Chicago Tribune Exec Leaving Company (Chicago Tribune)… Their Apps Track You. Will Congress Track Them? (The New York Times)…

The Localization of the Enterprise

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Organizations are decentralizing and adapting to consumer hardware cycles by storing data in the cloud and utilizing software services without deployments. Tech capability dictated by employees is a seismic shift that will forever change the world of technology. We’re going to see a similar shift in marketing: the localization of the enterprise…