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Facebook Looking for More Consumers to Chat With Businesses on Messenger

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At the Collision conference in New Orleans on Tuesday, Facebook’s head of product for Messenger, Stan Chudnovsky, spoke with Recode’s Kurt Wagner about how the company is trying to unite the messaging app’s 1.2 billion users with the 60 million businesses in the Facebook ecosystem.

How Harman Takes Electronics Marketing to the Local Level

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Having the customer’s ear is literally what Harman International wants, but getting their attention at the local level takes more than a few steps for a consumer electronics maker. Shobhit Kapoor, Harman’s vice president of global brand marketing, caught up with Street Fight recently to talk about how the company thinks about connecting with local consumers.

Street Culture: Pointy Focusing on People and Product, Not Process

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Dublin-based digital search platform startup Pointy is still at that point where the culture is just what it is, without special definitions or structure. “The number of people on our team now is small, almost painfully small,” says co-founder Mark Cummins. “There’s not a lot of structure. Well, there is structure, but there’s not a lot of process around it.”

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Street Fight Daily: 01.26.12

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

BofA, Rivals Look to Get In on Groupon’s Game (Wall Street Journal)…

Tibbr Has a New Twist on Geolocation (ReadWriteWeb)…

Groupon Criticized For Literally Peddling Snake Oil (Atlantic Wire)…

Lesson From Gilt: Consolidation Means Growing Up for Daily Deals

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Gilt City’s retreat points to a larger systemic issue for the deals space in 2012. With venture investment in the space waning, access to the type of funding necessary to scale the capital-intensive sales efforts is becoming much more difficult — and the potential for a relative newcomer to achieve Groupon or LivingSocial-like growth seems a lot less likely…

Paulding.com’s Hughes: Patch’s Plan B Should Be Franchises

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The founder of the Knight News Challenge-winning indie hyperlocal talks with Street Fight about what it’s like to compete with the local Patch, the key mistake he made, and why the future of hyperlocal may include owner-operated franchises.

Street Fight Daily: 01.25.11

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

Groupon Deals Coming to Tourist Kiosks in Chicago (Crain’s Chicago Business)…

Location-Based Shopping App Shopkick Now 3 Million Users Strong (TechCrunch)…

GuideHop and iStopOver Team Up To Fuse Local Activity and Rental Discovery (TechCrunch)…

8 Scheduling Tools For Managing Deal Customers

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When running a daily deal, some merchants can expect hundreds — if not thousands — of calls and emails from new clients. In an effort to combat this problem and free up phone lines, a number of vendors offer online scheduling tools that reduce the heavy lifting for small business owners. Here are eight popular scheduling systems being used by SMBs to properly manage the influx of deal customers.

Yext CEO: ‘Fairly Intense Consolidation’ En Route for Local Marketers

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In July, Yext raised $10 Million to fund its new Power Listings product, and the company has since amassed a massive customer base, onboarding over 40,000 paying subscribers in a little over a year after the launch. Street Fight caught up with the company’s CEO, Howard Lerman, to take a deep dive into the business of local information and to talk about which hyperlocal companies he sees coming out on top…

Location-Based Marketing Hits the Food Truck Circuit

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When it comes to food trucks, location is critical; making sure that nearby consumers know where a truck is parked can make or break a day’s sales. As a result, location based services have become an excellent marketing tool for these meals on wheels…

Street Fight Daily: 01.24.12

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

Gilt Groupe Cuts Include 10 Percent of Employees and Two Executives (AllThingsD)…

Foursquare’s an API Billionaire: ‘Thousands per Second’ (Programmable Web)…

Local Online News to get TMZ Slant in L.A. (NetNewsCheck)…

Lessons for Hyperlocal Publishers in Cheerleader’s Defamation Suit

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Immunity for defamatory claims are limited only to circumstances in which a user has uploaded content without the knowledge or encouragement of the publisher. Immunity likely is lost once publishers become involved in selecting or editing user content, or if the publishers add their own negative comments.

5 Tips for an Effective Hyperlocal Advertising Campaign

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As hyperlocal advertising continues to heat up, publishers and merchants are working together to figure out what makes online ads most effective. Here are tips from a few top hyperlocal publishers that can help merchants stay ahead of the curve…