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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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Location-Based Gaming for Fun — And Profit

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With the rise of mobile, place-based games are being created to encourage people to engage in real world interaction — bringing real opportunity for local businesses and, more specifically, marketing.

Street Fight Daily: 02.07.12

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

Agrawal: Yelp Advertising Is a Rip-off for Small Advertisers (VentureBeat)…

Yelp Ads Are Not A Rip-Off, You Pay To Seal The Deal (TechCrunch)…

Facebook Is Bringing Ads to Mobile Apps (Mashable)…

Local Stores Become Showrooms for Online Buying

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“Showrooming” refers to the act of using local stores as showrooms for more price-competitive online purchases. Retailers can get on the right side of this trend by beating Amazon at its own data-centric game. That means launching apps — or working with those that aggregate retail feeds, such as Milo — through which personal recommendations and incentives are offered to in-store buyers…

Hyperlocals Need to Protect Their Social Media Branding

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Customer lists, brand names, and social media accounts are valuable assets for hyperlocal news publishers, and they should be protected like money. Publishers should put agreements in place to stipulate that any online accounts provided in connection with site business remain with the publisher upon termination of any relationship…

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)

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.

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.”

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.

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…

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)…