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Street Fight Rolls Out Analyst Hours with Local Merchant Report
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.
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Street Fight Daily: 12.15.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups.…
EBay’s PayPal Counts on Its 103 Million Users to Target Groupon (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)…
Examiner.com Will Provide Content For CBS Local Digital Media (PaidContent)…
NBC Maps the 2012 Election Campaign Trail With Foursquare (Mashable)…
Street Fight Daily: 12.14.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
TaskRabbit Picks Up $17.8M — And a Vote of Confidence for the Do-It-For-Me Economy (Betabeat)…
How Fast Is Local Ad Market Growing? Depends How You Define ‘Local’ (PaidContent)…
Digital Giants Closing in on Local Media (Reflections of a Newsosaur)…
The Great Indoors: The Future of Indoor Location & Advertising
The “shopping experience” is something retailers have been perfecting for decades. Product placement and drive aisle concepts are designed to entice consumers and draw them to the best deals that will keep them coming back. But, what if we could take these concepts a step further with location-based marketing?
PlaceIQ Announces 4.2 Million in Funding
PlaceIQ, the hyperlocal data company that builds audience profiles for 100-meter tiles across major metropolitan centers, has raised $4.2 million dollars in series A funding. The Boulder-based company will also be relocating to New York, in order to be closer to “customers, partners, and the general ecosystem”…
Case Study: CKE’s Own Check-In App Lends Accountability and Control
How does a restaurant group with 3,000 locations spread across 43 states manage a robust location-based rewards program without sacrificing functionality or flexibility? For Brad Rosenberg, manager of digital strategy and marketing for CKE Restaurants — which owns the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s fast-food chains — the answer was to build a mobile app that could work across multiple point-of-sale systems and still provide the accountability that individual franchise owners require…
Street Fight Daily: 12.13.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Gowalla Went For $3M In Facebook Shares, And Many Investors Were Cool With That (TechCrunch)…
When It Comes to Mobile Devices, Focus Will Be on Location, Location, Location (Washington Post)…
Guardian’s n0tice Will Pay Citizen Moderators (ReadWriteWeb)…
What Works in One Local Market Won’t Necessarily Work in Another
I’ve learned, sometimes through epic failures, what works in Tracy (a suburb of Sacramento, Calif.) won’t work in Tampa. However, I’ve also learned, through epic victories, that when you harness the power of 200+ communities for a common goal great things can happen. Here are a few bits of wisdom I’ve picked up along the way.
Beyond Search: AI Visibility the New Growth Lever for MULO Brands