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Webinar Recap: Building the Local Marketing Tech Stack
In a webinar Wednesday, Street Fight’s research director David Card and John Hurley, Radius’s senior director of demand generation and content marketing, discussed how companies such as American Express, iHeartRadio, and DexYP use intelligent platforms and data to get ahead of their rivals.
Street Fight Daily: Alexa Everywhere Becomes Reality, Salesforce Launches Data Marketplace
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amazon Wants You to Wake Up with Alexa, and That’s Just the Start… Salesforce Launches Data Studio, a Marketplace for Data… Over Half of Paid Programmatic Impressions Probably Aren’t Viewed by an Actual Person…
Brad Feld: Startup Founders Should Focus on Defining ‘Cultural Norms’
The Foundry Group and TechStars co-founder has seen his share of startups. He is co-author of the book “Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job,” which had its second edition released last month. Street Fight caught up with Feld recently to talk about some of the trickier issues in starting a company.
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Street Fight Daily: Same-Day Delivery, Managing Competitors in Hyperlocal
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Instantly Yours, for a Fee (The New York Times).. Making of a Hyperlocal: Competitors (Sarah Hartley).. Social-Local Optimization: A Strategic Imperative in 2013 (iMedia Connection)…
6 Tips for Increasing User Engagement On Mobile Apps
More and more businesses are developing branded apps as part of their mobile marketing programs, integrating location-based technology with product reviews, deal information, and even gaming elements to reach consumers. Here are six tips from experts on what brands of all sizes should consider when building their own custom apps…
Street Fight Daily: SoLoMo Hype Wanes, Groupon Makes Another Goods Buy
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.
Startups Adjust to Web’s Down Cycle (Wall Street Journal)… Groupon Buys CommerceInterface To Improve How Vendors Sell On Groupon Goods (TechCrunch… Why Malls Are Getting Mauled (AllThingsD)…
Is Facebook Local’s Waking Giant?
“Google is the best advertising product in the history of the world… because it’s like advertising at a store,” Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget said recently. “Facebook, meanwhile, is like advertising at a party.” But despite Google’s user-side advantages here, Facebook could have an edge in SMB engagement…
How Press Association Ad Networks Can Help Newspapers Compete Online
One would think that the Internet would help ad networks from state press and newspaper associations operate with even greater efficiency, but these groups are only in the early stages online. Still they are well-positioned to help increase CPMs and provide a way for newspapers to ensure that their ad inventory is always sold at a set value…
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