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SMB Index: Local Stocks Climbed in April, Closing With a Strong Rally

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This new monthly feature from SurePath Capital Partners looks at the relative optimism about a range of public companies working with SMB clients. In April 2017 the SCP SMB Index climbed 4.9% after a strong rally to close off the month.

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.

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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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…

Street Fight Daily: 01.12.12

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

Appearing on 60 Minutes, Groupon’s Mason Says Being Founder Is an Edge (CBS News)…

Gilt Groupe CEO: Restructuring Rumors Overblown, IPO Still on Track (AllThingsD)…

Skyhook Brings Location-Based Services To the Kindle Fire (ReadWriteWeb)…

Geo-Location App Urgnt.ly Connects You With Nearby Service Providers

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The app, which launched this week in beta, finds qualified service workers “now and near,” connecting people in need with immediately available help. Urgnt.ly’s service providers provide not only provide their current location, they also indicate whether they are “checked in,” meaning that they are currently available to work…

Gray Lady Takes the Local: Inside the NYT’s Hyperlocal Efforts

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Mary Ann Giordano, an editor who oversaw the Times’ recent forays into hyperlocal, talks with Street Fight about her new project SchoolBook, her hopes for Patch, and why the Times is in the hyperlocal game “from a distance.”