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#SFSNYC: Inside Amazon’s Voice-Search Strategy

Dave Isbitski, chief evangelist for Echo and Alexa at Amazon, sat down with Street Fight on Wednesday to discuss Amazon’s voice strategy and the implications of voice-search technology for local businesses.

#SFSNYC: SMB DIY — Is Local Getting Closer to Solving the Self-Serve Conundrum?

At Street Fight Summit on Wednesday, Street Fight columnist Damian Rollison sat down with three digital marketing insiders to discuss how their companies provide value to small and medium-sized businesses — and how to strike the right balance between automation and customer engagement.

#SFSNYC: How Brands Without Brick-and-Mortar Stores Can Market Locally

Brick-and-mortar stores are not the only companies that stand to gain from local strategies: brands without their own physical stores and business-facing enterprises, too, must go local to reach their market potential.

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Street Fight Daily: 03.05.12

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

Yelp is worth $1.5 billion… Now what? (GigaOm)…

How Newspapers Are Faring Trying to Build Digital Revenue (Pew Research)…

Square’s Register and the Return of the Mom-and-Pop Shop (GigaOm)…

Local Quotables: Doctor, Kurzweil, Millard and more

The best words about and around the hyperlocal industry.

Ken Doctor thinks New Corp can’t go local with their business model; Jordan Kurzweil thinks the demand for local news is less than people think; Amy Millard says that local businesses have more Facebook interaction than their corporate counterparts; and more.

Get Place-based Reminders Where and When They Matter

Location-based reminders function similarly to regular reminders – but rather than being reminded at a specific time, the reminder comes when you are at a specific location…

Street Fight Daily: 03.02.12

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

LivingSocial to Launch Its First Credit Card (Reuters)…

How LevelUp Is Taking a Page From Starbucks (GigaOm)…

10 Things to Know About Location Right Now (Ad Age)…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Groupon, Banjo

In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Groupon’s recent acquisitions, Google’s launch of a product fit for 2008, Toyota going extreme in Belgium, Caterina Fake’s Pinwheel and a report that shows the futility of mobile ad display + Banjo founder Damien Patton…

Yelp Sets Share Price at $15 for Friday IPO

Though Yelp’s SEC-sanctioned “quiet period” has seen less criticism than Groupon endured, many analysts remain unconvinced that Yelp’s model can continue the rapid growth achieved over the past few years. What concerns many critics is less the company’s lack of profitability and more the direction in which its losses are heading…

Media Surveys Give Hyperlocals Short Shrift

What’s needed is a survey that’s as thorough as Pew’s but which is confined to those communities with at least one credible independent site as well as a network site — like a Patch or Main Street Connect outlet — and at least one “legacy” (newspaper or local TV) site…

Case Study: Food Truck Says Single Deal Campaign Saturated Market

Kate Carrara, owner of Buttercream, a cupcake truck in Philadelphia, tapped into the daily deals craze in 2011 with campaigns through both Groupon and LivingSocial — which she’ll never do again. “I think I’ve saturated the market with it. I did it solely for the marketing,” she says, pointing to the 9,000 Twitter followers accumulated after the Groupon deal. Since then, she’s also used Xipwire and LevelUp to combine hyperlocal marketing and commerce, two experiments with open outcomes…

Street Fight Daily: 03.01.12

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

LevelUp Now Seeing $1M Per Month In Transactions; Launches API (TechCrunch)…

Facebook Premium: Ads Everywhere, Ads Everywhere, Ads (BetaBeat)…

Foursquare Dumps Google, Goes Open-Source for Maps (ReadWriteWeb)…

Local Marketing Shifts From Ads to Interactions to Requests

There’s a huge opportunity to aggregate potential leads across these siloed services in real time, and notify or proxy respond on behalf of local businesses so they can service leads immediately. In this online new paradigm, small business no longer needs to wait for their customers, they cherry-pick on demand…