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Structuring a Team and Creating Transparency in the Midst of Company Chaos
Neil Sweeney has lots of opinions about how to run a company, especially a newer, smaller one. The founder and CEO of beacon network company Freckle IoT, says that it’s about putting the right people in the right places.
Street Fight Daily: Uber Grows Despite Scandals, Facebook Expands Messenger Ads
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Sees Financial Growth and Possible Waymo Settlement… Facebook Globally Tests Injecting Display Ads into Messenger Inboxes… Ikea’s Back-to-School Campaign Uses Influencers on Snapchat to Target Millenials…
Survey of Brand Retailers Highlights Accelerated Adoption of AI-Powered Marketing
A new survey sheds light on how major brands are investing in artificial intelligence and what decision-makers in the retail and e-commerce industries should be doing to better harness the technology.
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How to Engage Hyperlocal ‘Hard’ News Enthusiasts
Hyperlocal sites shouldn’t look at hard news as journalistic broccoli. The challenge is to serve up hard news appealingly – to connect it with each user’s gut-level self-interest. This means giving users the space to talk about their news enthusiasms. It’s not always enough to ask, “What do you think?” Sometimes a site has to offer a prompt…
Case Study: Seattle Office Caterer Grows Business With Mobile Payments
At Molly’s Salads in Seattle, Washington, founder Stefan Kalb needed an easy way to collect payments from customers without being present in person. His solution? Seconds, a mobile commerce platform that customers can use to pay via text message…
Why TechStars’ Tisch Won’t Buy Your ‘Daily Deal’ Company
Investment interest in daily deal companies has been flat for some time, but the stigma attached to the “daily deal” has turned the classification into a scarlet letter for companies. Some of the negativity around the term is likely a consequence of the irregularities found in Groupon’s accounting. But the underlying shift stems from a simpler strategic shift in industry organization…
Addressing Foursquare’s Engagement Problem
Foursquare has an engagement problem driven by the fact that users don’t view the application as communications platform. Two-way communications have become more important as overall engagement in social media has risen. A check-in, by default, is a one-way communication and not a conversation…
Study: Restaurants, Autos Are Top Local Search Categories
In both mobile and online searches, restaurants and automotive took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively. However, while movie theaters, beauty services, and hotels filled out the 3rd through 5th slot for mobile, finance, real estate, and legal figure 3-5 overall in online searches…
Street Fight Daily: MasterCard Deals, Mobile Ads Take Off
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
MasterCard Jumps into Deals Space (BIA/Kelsey)…
2012: The Year Mobile Advertising Starts to Pay Off (GigaOm)…
A Faint Gloom Cloud Hovers Over The Daily Deal Summit (BetaBeat)…
Delivery.com CEO: Hyperlocal Marketing Helps SMBs Compete
Street Fight’s recently published white paper “The Local Merchant” put a spotlight on the motivations of small and medium-sized business owners — and the hyperlocal companies that are marketing to them. The 48-page examination of this $38 billion customer base was underwritten in part by Delivery.com. Here, Delivery.com CEO Jed Kleckner offers a first-hand look at his company’s experience interfacing with local merchants…
7 Platforms Local Merchants Can Use to Build Mobile Websites
Fifty-four percent of smartphone users now use their phones to “pre-shop” before arriving at stores, and 51% of consumers are more likely to make purchases from retailers with mobile sites. Despite this, only 4.8% of retailers in the U.S. currently have mobile websites. In response, a number of hyperlocal companies have stepped up with platforms that SMBs can use to easily create mobile-optimized sites. Here are seven of them…
Study: Less Than 20% of SMB Web Sites Link to Social Media
SMB DigitalScape analyzed the web sites of over 1 million small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from around the world — including more than 700,000 U.S. companies — and found that only 19.5 percent of SMB sites link to their Facebook page, and an even small percentage link to Twitter and other sites…
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