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Street Fight Daily: Ford Integrates Offers, Web Readership Booming
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.…Daily Deals Are Coming to Your Car (Wired)… Why Starbucks is betting on Square (GigaOm)… Two Years After the Tipping Point, Papers’ Web Readership is Booming (Paid Content)…
Nextdoor CEO on Patch, Facebook, and Building Social for the Real World
In July, dot-com veteran Nirav Tolia announced announced a major round of funding which valued his 22-month-old startup Nextdoor at $100 million. Street Fight caught up with Tolia recently to discuss raising money for hyperlocal projects, developing technology for real-world communities, and the increasingly blurred line between information and social connectivity in the local space…
Why Online Marketers Are Rethinking Their Yelp Strategy
Merchants have historically been wary of Yelp reviews — and for good reason. Yelpers have tended to be snarky and more focused on humor than accuracy. But there are changes coming at the end of 2012 that are likely to make many marketing pros reevaluate their relationship to the user-generated reviews site…
Street Fight Daily: Starbucks Meet Square, Craigslist Holes Up
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Starbucks and Square to Team Up (NYT)… Craigslist Cuts Off Its Search Engine to Spite Its Face (GigaOm)… Why Apple Should Buy Foursquare (TechCrunch)…
Hyperlocal Investment Report Debuts Stock Index, Sees Dip in Valuations
Hyperlocal stock performance was largely on an upward trend July, according to the Hyperlocal Stock Index which debuts in the latest issue of Street Fight’s monthly investment newsletter. The greatest gains were made by DexOne, ReachLocal and AOL, while Groupon and Facebook suffered staggering losses, and Angie’s List failed to reverse its downward trend.
The Long Tail of Local Search
Far from invisible tools that merely get you to the store or service you want, local search products actually tell a story about the needs local search companies think they are trying to fulfill, demonstrating in some cases a stark contrast between the actual habits of the local consumer and the assumptions of local apps and websites…
Why Leveraging Location Is the Key to Success in Mobile Advertising
Both smartphone and tablet users are searching for locally relevant content at an increasing rate, so much so that mobile user experience as a whole has been affected by the need for location-based information. Mobile networks have seen a massive increase in local search traffic this year, affecting mobile advertising in a big way. Yet the vast majority of mobile advertising doesn’t grasp what it means to be truly local.
Street Fight Daily: Yahoo Exec to Foursquare, Facebook ‘Likes’ Local
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Foursquare Snags a Yahoo Exec to Serve as VP of Sales (Venture Beat)… Facebook Prompts Users to Like Pages They Check-in to; Could It Foreshadow a New Location-based Ad Type? (Inside Facebook)… Nielsen On U.S. Mobile Shopping: eBay’s App Attracts The Most Users, Shopkick Keeps Them Around Longer (TechCrunch)…
Mobile Local Monetization Is Starting to Happen — For Real This Time
Facebook’s mobile Sponsored Story is already showing boosted performance over display ads. For many others, the mobile-first principle will come from location targeting, as its congruence with the use case similarly boosts performance and thus ad rates. For that and other reasons, I’ve forecast location-based ads to lead mobile ad revenues by 2016…
5 Mobile Tools SMBs Can Use to Collect Guest Feedback
The customer feedback cards that restaurants once placed on tabletops are are being replaced with digital platforms designed to solicit feedback from guests and find resolutions to problems — before they result in negative online reviews. Here are five tools that merchants can use to collect feedback from guests on their mobile devices…
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