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SMB Index: Local Stocks Down 2.8% in June
The SCP SMB Index declined 2.8% in June, after climbing for 2 consecutive months. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones were both up 0.3% and 1.2% respectively. while the Nasdaq was down 0.9%. Groupon led the gainers, up 27.6% in June after dropping 23.8% in May. HubSpot led the list of losers, down 8.8% during the month.
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EFF: Claim That Not All Hyperlocal Journalists Are Equal ‘Simply Wrong’
The practice of denying hyperlocal publishers the full status of other journalists has caught the ire of organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has fought to level the playing field for public access on behalf of hyperlocal news media and bloggers. Many local officials have granted traditional media access to public records and meetings while denying the same privileges to hyperlocals…
5 Tools for Outsourcing Hyperlocal Ad Management & Sales
Companies that provide publishers with ad sales support and management tools have become a happy medium for publications that can’t afford to employ full-time reps and aren’t quite satisfied with the low rates they earn from advertising networks alone. Here are five tools that publishers can use to outsource some or all of the advertising operations…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Tests Payments, Belly’s 1 Million Check-ins
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...
Groupon Is Testing A Payments System To Compete With Square And PayPal (Business Insider)…
RIP Yellow Pages? Phone Books Re-shape Themselves for Life After Listings (PaidContent)…
Loyalty Startup Belly Hits 1 Millionth Check-In; Active Merchants Say Belly Check-ins Top Foursquare (TechCrunch)…
Social Network Swidjit Develops Local Currency/Barter System
CEO Alex Colket hopes the hyperlocal social network will centralize many of the key functions of Facebook, Twitter, Craigslist, Meetup and Yelp, into one. Swidjit allows users to post “have its” or “want its” to facilitate an online bartering system. The website launched on May 1, and items exchanged thus far include baby strollers, mattresses and even rides to Syracuse, N.Y.
Street Fight Daily: Groupon, Patch, Signpost, Digital First
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...
Groupon Customers Might Not Get Any Cash From That $8.5 Million Settlement (Business Insider)…
Signpost Makes Deal With Newspaper Biggies (Portfolio)…
The Case Against AOL, In Numbers (Ad Age)…
Study: Political Campaigns Using Mobile Ads for Hyperlocal Targeting
Using hyperlocal-targeted mobile signup ads — interactive in-app ads that allow users to submit basic contact information — marketers are paying on average $0.85 -$1.00 per user signup across all swing states, and $1.33-$1.45 across key battleground states like Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Colorado, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio and Florida, according to a study released yesterday by mobile ad platform Pontiflex.
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