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Why SharkNinja Keeps Searching for New Ways to Connect With Local Consumers

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Building a rapport with customers at the local level can be a challenge for product makers who do not have their own stores. It can be an even more elaborate task for a brand whose products have long lifecycles. That makes it all the more important to ensure digital marketing is cognizant of its customers’ needs, says transformation VP Ajay Kapoor.

Street Fight Daily: Google Adds Local Event Discovery to Search, Snap’s Earnings Disappoint

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Search Will Now Help You Find Nearby Events… Snap’s $2.2 Billion Loss Caps Bumpy First Months as Public Company… Microsoft Releases New Custom AI Services for Businesses…

How to Influence Customers Through Online Reviews

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As major brands look to capitalize on the most effective and trustworthy ad formats, they are refining their strategies for managing online reviews. Here are six ideas that brand marketers should keep in mind as they look for new ways to influence the way consumers interact with their online reviews.

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When Syndicating Hyperlocal Content, Cover Your Assets

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Publishers looking to syndicate content to other sites must make sure not to give up the keys to the house. Syndicating content to generate revenue is not a new idea, but contributors often overlook the rights they may be giving up by partnering with another media property.

6 White-Label Deal Platforms for Publishers

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Launching a branded deals program gives publishers an additional stream of revenue in a notoriously difficult advertising market, potentially increasing a media company’s annual advertising revenue anywhere from 15% to 30%. These programs also give community newspapers, hyperlocal blogs, television stations, and radio stations a way to capitalize on the trust and authority they’ve developed with their audiences over the years.

Street Fight Daily: 02.14.12

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups.

New Pew Report About Advertising on News Sites Should Open Eyes (PoMo Blog)…

The Secret To Making Money From Great Content (Business Insider)…

Hyperlocal Marketing Offers Powerful Returns (Portfolio)…

Comparing the Pros and Cons of 5 Top Location APIs

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With the rise of location-based services and apps, the availability of geo-specific data has grown more important than ever. With the recent sale and shuttering of SimpleGeo, a start-up that was beginning to turn heads in the geo-data field, many are wondering where to go for the location data they need. Here are five major services offering similar types of location data feeds…

Street Fight Daily: 02.13.12

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...

Groupon Adds ‘Thumbs Up’ Feedback on Deals (Bloomberg)…

Foursquare and NFC: How the Two Can Help Each Other (GigaOm)…

How NPR Drove Traffic to a Local Station by Geotargeting Stories on Facebook (Nieman Lab)…

NPR’s Bob Garfield: Hyperlocal News Ventures Doomed

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Media analyst Bob Garfield has put a voice behind the industry rumblings about hyperlocal news ventures. As standalone business operations, hyperlocal news “just doesn’t make for a sustainable financial model,” Garfield said in a recent video interview with Borrell Associates.

Advice for Patch’s New Content Chief

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If Patch can create an easy way for communities to report on sports events — with minimal or no effort — and then serve up that content in a relatively readable format, the upside would be huge. Also, get rid of your middle management layer. All of it. Hyperlocal works best in conditions of hyper-autonomy, without an overseer and a style enforcer…

Local Quotables: O’Shaughnessy, Kelt, Ramsey and more

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Tim O’Shaugnessy talks merchant reups (80 percent!); Group Commerce’s Jonty Kelt makes a plug for the content-commerce combination that took the Social Commerce conference by storm; and Mathew Ingram snarks at Sky News’ Twitter automation…

Street Fight Daily: 02.10.12

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...

Where Does Arianna Fit Into AOL’s New Patch Plans? (PaidContent)

Dear Patch: I Was Hyperlocal Long Before You (Romenesko)

Groupon Hires Paul Taaffe to Improve the Online-Coupon Site’s Public Face (Bloomberg)

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Yowza, Foursquare

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Telus’s partnership with WagJag, MomentFeed’s intensifying relationship with Foursquare, Facebook’s IPO, Yowza and CardSpring tap someone else’s money, and Foursquare’s Holger Luedorf talks about the company’s future…