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Late-Blooming Entrepreneur Beats Community News Jinx in Metro D.C.

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Bethesda Beat founder Steve Hull talks with Street Fight about why he wasn’t content to coast after the early success of his Bethesda Magazine and decided to see if he could make it in the faster-paced – and riskier – space of digital community news.

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Street Fight Daily: Voice-Enabled Speaker Usage to Grow 130% in 2017, TripAdvisor Partners With GrubHub

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Voice-Enabled Speaker Usage to Grow Nearly 130% This Year… TripAdvisor Embraces Online Food Delivery with GrubHub Integration… As IPOs Pick Up, Big Startups Hold Out…

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Openings and New Hires at Buzzboard, inMarket, and SITO Mobile

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Every two weeks, Geoff Michener covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. This week’s edition includes moves and new openings at Ninth Decimal, Netsertive, and Instacart.

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Street Fight Daily: 02.06.12

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

Facebook’s IPO: The Good, the Bad and the (Local?) Future (BIA/Kelsey)…

Why Context Is King in the Future of Digital Marketing (Mashable)…

Gilt Groupe Snags New Chief Marketing Officer from JustFabulous (AllThingsD)…

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Could Pinterest Follow Yelp Down the Local Path?

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I am fairly certain that a class of local Pinters will begin to emerge who have followers and who specialize either in a city or a part of a city and, most likely, down to a specific specialty. And this will happen because Pinterest is an extension of blogging and tweeting, really. Lots of pins actually drive through to a blog post, in fact, so it’s already seen as a traffic augmentation vehicle. I see Pinterest getting integrated into social media dashboard tools that will make it easy for local merchants running Facebook pages to add a Pinterest stream to their arsenal.

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Local Quotables: Armstrong, Radcliffe, Andrzejewski and more

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Tim Armstrong was back out there defending Patch again this week. Elsewhere, researchers noted the rapidly growing influence of Pinterest, which is gaining on Twitter as a traffic driver. Over at Foodspotting, Alexa Andrzejewski corrects any misconceptions there might be that her company is just “Instagram” for food. Damian Radcliffe says LBS products “haven’t quite lived up to the hype.”

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PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing: Evi, LocalBeat, Shopcastr

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Hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at the latest SIRI competitor, Evi, the location tool LocalBeat in India, Groupon’s kiosk play, a great example of relevant and smart location-based mobile marketing by the First TransPennine Express, and Matt O’Leary from Shopcastr.

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Street Fight to Participate at First Euro Deals Event

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There are over 1500 daily dealers operating in Europe, and Stavros Prodromou, the conference’s organizer, says that the event is meant to spur collaborations and partnerships between the various companies working in the space…

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Street Fight Daily: 02.03.12

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

Mobile Ad Network Mojiva Reaches 1 Billion Devices (TechCrunch)…

Gilt City Gets New Look — Providers Members with Improved Shopping Experience (Daily Deal Media)…

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Trover Updates With Curation Tools and Revamped Newsfeed

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The location-based photo sharing service that launched in April has added some substantial new features to its mobile application, with lists, tagging, and a revamped newsfeed, which brings users’ curatorial activity (i.e. ‘thanks,’ comments, and list-adds) into the thread…

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Case Study: Sandwich Chain Becomes a Believer in the End of the Wallet

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Mobile payments and loyalty program LevelUp provides Sebastians restaurant owner Mike Conley with far more customer information — like return rates and lifetime spending histories — than he could have ever gotten from a punch-card system. More than 2,200 customers are now using LevelUp to pay at his restaurant and Conley says customers who use the platform spend more per visit…

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Street Fight Daily: 02.02.12

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

AOL’s Armstrong: Some Patches DID Turn Profitable in 2011 (Forbes)…

LivingSocial lost $558 million in 2011 (Washington Post)…
Luxury Flash Sales Sites Regroup After Layoffs (BetaBeat)…

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LivingSocial Sales Chief: Relationships With Merchants Are ‘Key Focus’

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Mandy Cole, the company’s SVP of sales, spoke with Street Fight recently about how LivingSocial is moving away from the classic notion of daily deals, the importance of mobile, and why developing relationships with merchants will always be the company’s top priority.

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