Street Fight Daily: 01.25.11
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)…
Street Fight Daily: 01.23.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Mason: Groupon Has 10,000 Employees, 70% Outside of U.S. (TechCrunch)…
CBS Local Deal Opens Door for Pureplay (NetNewsCheck)…
Why 2012 Is the Year of Mobile Advertising (Mashable)…
Street Fight Daily: 01.17.12
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)…
Case Study: A Michigan Yoga Studio’s Tips For Managing Deal Customers
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…
Street Fight Daily: 01.12.12
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)…
Street Fight Daily: 01.11.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Will Groupon’s Deal With Deutsche Telekom Be A Winning Template For Growth? (PaidContent)…
Rumor: Layoffs and Restructuring at Gilt Groupe as New Verticals Fail to Deliver Growth (BetaBeat)…
Will Patch’s Fate Foretell the Future of Local Online News? Hardly (Knight Digital Media Center)…
Street Fight Daily: 01.10.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Local Services Marketplace Thumbtack Raises $4.5 Million (TechCrunch)…
Patch Dispatches Little Green Truck to Primary States (Capital New York)…
TaskRabbit Acquires Service Provider Directory SkillSlate (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: 01.09.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Microsoft Finally Dumps Deal Provider Now Owned by Google (AllThingsD)…
Groupon’s New Year’s Resolution? To Make Money on Yours! (AllThingsD)…
Politicians’ Spending on Digital Ads Skyrockets (Mashable)…
Local Quotables: Moyal, Mims, Tolles, Lessin and more…
As the first week of 2012 commences, everyone is speculating about what will happen this year in the hyperlocal industry. Jonathan Moyal sees Lucky Ant helping communities play a bigger role in local business. Jeremy Mims predicts growth for Groupon and Michelle Jones hopes to create an alternative to Yelp. Also, Sam Lessin describes how Facebook’s check-in with timelines is an entirely new kind of LBS and more.
Street Fight Daily: 01.06.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Armstrong: ‘Really Large Amount’ of Patches to Be Profitable by End of 2013 (Dow Jones Newswires)…
GoLocal24 Expands Into Massachusetts, Hires Veteran Newscaster (Boston Globe)…
Groupon Still Chasing $25 Billion Mirage (Forbes)…
Case Study: Delaware Coffee Shop Sees 50% Return for Daily Deal Customers
At The Java House Café in Middletown, Del., (pop. 18,871), Cleo Clarke has run promotions with a couple of daily deals sites. She’s managed to turn 50% of those group coupon buyers into repeat customers. Clarke is now exploring Foursquare as a way to tap into her tech-savvy customer base — 90% of whom currently use smartphones…
Street Fight Daily: 01.05.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Groupon Merchant Center Now Shows If Customers Love or Hate Your Deals (TechCrunch)…
Groupon’s Drop Below IPO Price Reflects Daily-Deal Risks (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)…
PayPal: Mobile Payments and Location-based Offers Go Hand-in-Hand (GigaOm)…
Street Fight Daily: 01.04.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
No Startup Is Better Than Foursquare With New Products (PaidContent)…
Groupon Grows 6% in November Despite Thanksgiving Dropoff (Yipit)…
Furious Merchant: ‘Groupon And Living Social Are Doomed’ (Business Insider)…
Street Fight Daily: 01.03.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
AOL’s Armstrong Touts Patch Growth in Year-End Company Memo (Capital New York)…
Uninsured Turn to Daily Deal Sites for Health Care (Associated Press)…
Real Estate Agents Look Beyond the Check-in (Inman)…
How Groupon Will Expand in 2012
As Groupon matures, its path will doubtless expand beyond its core product. Perhaps that’s why I have such a hard time keeping a straight face when people say that Groupon’s model for daily deals is fundamentally broken. It’s not. If anything, their second act has the potential to be even bigger than their first…
Street Fight Daily: 01.02.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Ex-AOL Salesman: Here’s How To Save Patch (Business Insider)…
Foursquare’s Claim to Fame, the Check-in, Could Become Its Downfall (VentureBeat)…
SEC Pressed Groupon on Accounting (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: 12.23.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Vicks Uses Location Data to Micro-target Ads in Regions With High Incidence of Flu (New York Times)…
Daily Deals 2.0: Why Media Companies Will Win (Forbes)…
Facebook Launches Suggested Events Feature Based On Checkins (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: 12.20.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
How Siri Could Help Boost Location-Based Services (GigaOm)…
Eeve Creates Location-Based Photo Groups (TechCrunch)…
Localscope for iPhone: A Browser For the Real World (ReadWriteWeb)…
Lesson From Gilt: Consolidation Means Growing Up for Daily Deals
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…