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Street Fight Rolls Out Analyst Hours with Local Merchant Report

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The report—a key franchise for us—has regularly served as a guidepost for vendors seeking to expand their reach into this market. What’s been missing? A way to tie the data directly to a vendor’s business. So for the first time, we’re offering time with the report’s author, Street Fight director of research, David Card, to discuss the report’s findings directly.

Street Fight Daily: Twitter Launches 24/7 News Service with Bloomberg, Uber Boosts Data Privacy

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Twitter to Launch 24/7 News Streaming Service with Bloomberg… Uber Beefs Up Privacy Controls Amid Data Use Controversy… Now That It Knows Who’s Talking, Google Home Might Reach Its Potential…

Study: 55% of Mall Shoppers Would Shop at an Online Retailer’s Brick-and-Mortar Store

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Online retailers like Warby Parker and Bonobos have been experimenting for years with pop-up stores and actual brick-and-mortar locations. This phenomenon was the subject of a recent study conducted by ChargeItSpot, which provides cell phone charging stations for retailers and events.

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4 Ways Hyperlocal Vendors Are Helping Merchants Run Efficient Campaigns

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In addition to battling it out over features and functionality, more and more platforms and services are upping their game in the way they work one-on-one with merchants. Here are a handful of the ways hyperlocal companies have begun providing support and information to help businesses run more successful deals…

Street Fight Daily: 01.17.12

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

Google Launching Goofy Game to Promote Location Products in Google+ (ReadWriteWeb)…

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Defends His Decisions on ’60 Minutes’ (AllThingsD)…

How Well Your Deal Sells is Inversely Proportional to Its Amount of Fine Print (Zuupy)…

The Call of the Mall: Where Mobile Advertising Might Really Rock

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Since you are going to be spending money, why not get deals that might help you save money? That’s the theory behind the upwelling of location-based advertising startups hoping to hit it big at the mall. The benefits of layering hyperlocal onto a mall experience are numerous…

Local Quotables: Hartley, Gardner, Thompson and more

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This week’s quotes focus on advertising, technology and new businesses. Sarah Hartley describes how the end of a site can be good while Scott Thompson, newly-appointed CEO of Yahoo talks about the beginning of a new Yahoo. Pat McDevitt discusses the community’s role in advertising, Jonathan Gardner talks about how advertising will change and more.

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Maponics, Geofencing

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Hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan heap affection on Soundtracking, debate the merits of a one-off event-based app (for the Chick-fil-a Bowl), and talk geofencing with Maponics CEO Darrin Clement.

Street Fight Daily: 01.13.12

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

Urban Airship To Shutter SimpleGeo Services In March, With Factual Picking Up The Slack (TechCrunch)…

Rue La La Operator Lays Off 65 Workers, Plans to Shutter SmartBargains (Boston Globe)…

Why Foursquare Won’t Share Location Data With Google (FastCompany)…

Foursquare Brings Tips Feature Explore to the Web

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What the web version executes most successfully is in making Foursquare’s extensive user-generated content consumable through a single keyword search. Over the past 9 months, Foursquare has created an ecosystem of users, brands, and developers to generate and structure location-based content without the massive costs associated with scaling hyperlocal information…

3 Ways to Reinvigorate Patch’s Business Model

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Although Patch.com is growing its reader base, the company still seems to be struggling with the traditional banner ad based business model. Here are a few new ways Patch can evolve its business and bring value to local merchants…

Case Study: A Michigan Yoga Studio’s Tips For Managing Deal Customers

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When Eric Paskel ran his first Groupon promotion in January 2011, he knew it was going to be big. What he hadn’t expected, however, was to get hit with 3,000 new clients by 11 a.m. on the day his deal premiered. In the year since then, the owner of Yoga Shelter has sold approximately 15,000 daily deal coupons. But no longer with Groupon…

Understanding the Location-Based Engagement Stack

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The “SoLoMo Manifesto” looks at how brands can use these new technologies and services to learn more about their customers at the local, regional, and global level than was ever possible before…