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xAd Rebrands as GroundTruth in Push to Expand Beyond AdTech

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In a signal of where the location technology space is heading, the location-based mobile advertising technology firm xAd announced this morning that it is expanding its scope and rebranding with a new name that better reflects the emerging landscape.

#SFSNYC: Inside Amazon’s Voice-Search Strategy

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Dave Isbitski, chief evangelist for Echo and Alexa at Amazon, sat down with Street Fight on Wednesday to discuss Amazon’s voice strategy and the implications of voice-search technology for local businesses.

#SFSNYC: SMB DIY — Is Local Getting Closer to Solving the Self-Serve Conundrum?

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At Street Fight Summit on Wednesday, Street Fight columnist Damian Rollison sat down with three digital marketing insiders to discuss how their companies provide value to small and medium-sized businesses — and how to strike the right balance between automation and customer engagement.

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Case Study: Pet Supply Chain Finds Value in SMS Advertising

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Lipof Advertising creative director Nathan Lowery says businesses that inundate their customers with meaningless marketing messages are actually doing more harm than good. In his experience handling advertising and marketing for Pet Supermarket, Lowery has noticed that customers are less likely to unsubscribe from SMS advertising lists when they’re sent messages that have actual value, like coupons and discount codes…

Street Fight Daily: Yelp Earnings, Yahoo Small Biz Dashboard

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...

Yelp Delivers Strong Revenue In Its First Earnings Report (Business Insider)…

Yahoo Launches Online Marketing Dashboard For Small Businesses (TechCrunch)…

Nobody Has Yet Built the ‘AdSense for Local’ (ScreenWerk)…

Foursquare’s Biz Dev Chief Decamps for Andreessen Horowitz

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Tristan Walker, who pioneered some of the company’s most innovative partnerships, announced today that he is leaving the location-based social networking company. He joins Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra, who left the ecommerce startup to become an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz early last month…

What Intuit’s Demandforce Buy Says About the Future of Hyperlocal Marketing

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The acquisition means that hyperlocal marketing has arrived in terms of market and investor recognition — and that hyperlocal marketing is something that will likely be baked deep into existing SMB products such as QuickBooks. Consider this move to be the precursor of a comprehensive SMB dashboard incorporating cash flows, balance sheets, text and tweets…

When Big Brands Go Local, They Need to Think Social

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Social networks have become increasingly relevant in the local search space for consumers. Social’s impact on local search is far from limited to searches performed on local networks, though. It’s also impacting traditional search results, rankings and relevance. Here are three local-social tactics that need to be included in every national brand’s digital strategy…

Banjo CEO: Location Is Key for Social Apps

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Banjo, one of a number of fast-growing location-based social apps, recently reached one million users just nine months after its launch. The company’s founder, Damien Patton, talked to Street Fight recently about the impact of location technology, how advertising is evolving with social media, and the future of location-based social networks…

Street Fight Daily: WHERE to PayPal Media Net, Foursquare Venues

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...

EBay puts WHERE to work as PayPal Media Network (GigaOm)…

Want to Claim a Foursquare Venue Right Now? That Will Be $10 (Mashable)…

As Groupon Publicly Struggles, LivingSocial Continues to Grow (AllThingsD)…

Update: Street Fight Summit West Speakers, Sponsors & Attendees

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As the weeks count down to Street Fight Summit West, the best networking event in hyperlocal to hit the Bay Area, we’re excited to bring you some updates on who’s speaking, who’s sponsoring, who’s attending, and what everyone will be talking about.

Signpost Snags $3.75M in Funding, Poaches Patch Sales Exec

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The New York-based service, which pivoted from the consumer deals space in late 2010, aims to replicate the Google AdSense model for local commerce by providing creative, distribution and CRM tools for SMBs looking to manage ongoing local commerce campaigns…

6 Tools SMBs Can Use to Update Digital Directory Listings

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Almost half of all business listings on hyperlocal services and online directories include information that is outdated, incorrect, or incomplete — a major problem given that 92% of people use online directories to research products or services in their areas. Here are six platforms that merchants can use to improve the accuracy of their directory listings and increase their businesses’ exposure online…