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How Legacy Retailers Are Infusing Tech Into Brick-and-Mortar
Many brick-and-mortar retailers are finding more ways to integrate in-store experiences and ecommerce into their offerings — both to offset brick-and-mortar declines and to drive more foot traffic into their stores. It is a redefinition of a retail revolution that still has fighting power for the old retail guard.
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The Myth of the Digitally Dumb Mom-and-Pop Shop
An old sawhorse of the punditocracy is that one of the reasons hyperlocal is taking off so slowly in terms of advertising revenues is due to the digital noobieness of local merchants. Journalists love to trot out stories reminding the world that X-percent of mom-and-pop shops still don’t even have a Web site. But are these peeps really trapped in the dark ages?
The 5 Most Important Things SMBs Can Do Online
Taking your local business online doesn’t necessarily mean you’re trying to tap into a massive network of potential new customers. Perhaps that is the endgame for some ambitious entrepreneurs, but for many businesses — especially local and service-based business — the aim is to build and maintain meaningful online and offline relationships at a local level…
Street Fight Daily: 03.07.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
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Steve Outing: No One’s Got a ‘Magic Bullet’ for Hyperlocal Revenue
The founder and program director at the Digital News Test Kitchen at CU-Boulder studies the places where journalism and technology collide. Here he talks with Street Fight about where the concept of hyperlocal has been, where it’s going, and how technology is increasingly impacting how journalists do their job…
Street Fight Daily: 03.06.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
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