Are you making marketing decisions based solely on clicks and web conversions? Marketers who aren't including phone call conversions may be missing key data points that can help optimize search campaigns, more accurately measure ROI and justify budgets. For example,…
Content marketing has been around a while among SMBs in analog form -- after all direct mail, product catalogs and brochures are all about using rich content to promote a business and drive sales. The growth of the Internet, and…
Content marketing has been around a while among SMBs in analog form -- after all direct mail, product catalogs and brochures are all about using rich content to promote a business and drive sales. The growth of the Internet, and…
Weather is an inherently localized subject according to The Weather Company's Denise Chuddy. She and I spent lots of time talking about that on stage at our December Leading in Local conference. This opens up all kinds of opportunities for…
I attended an intriguing breakout session -- "Spreading the Word: Advanced Strategies for Content Distribution" -- at the ad:tech conference today in San Francisco's glistening Moscone Center. The session featured a presentation by Alex from Digitas, who walked the audience through…
In case you missed our webcast last week on call monetization, here is the link to watch the free on-demand replay. That includes streaming video, and access to the presentation slides. The webcast itself was action packed with lots of…
Burger King, Starbucks and Paypal all announcing different mobile payment upgrades or features that let you order in advance and skip the line, key advancements in mobile payments that we predicted in our mobile payments insight paper. And Google has…
National brands, franchises and multi-location outlets often lose business by only providing standard name/address/phone number information, instead of focusing more on discovery search, says Local Market Launch CMO Gideon Rubin. "Name, address, phone information only represents 15 percent of searches.…
National brands, franchises and multi-location outlets often lose business by only providing standard name/address/phone number information, instead of focusing more on discovery search, says Local Market Launch CMO Gideon Rubin. "Name, address, phone information only represents 15 percent of searches.…
Consumers today want to feel like they are recognized and known personally by the stores they shop at and by the brands they buy. For national brands, targeting consumers and reaching that personal level can be a challenge. Many brands,…
Coming on the heels of its big content deal with Yahoo, Yelp has inked a strategic agreement with directories giant YP to use the vast YP sales force to sell its inventory. The deal expands Yelp's sales reach while at…
Google has done it. So has Yelp. Now Twitter is starting to add "click to call" buttons to its platform. The "click to call" button would allow mobile users to call advertisers directly from a Twitter ad with just a…
Classified Ventures has put cars.com on the block, with a wide array of potential suitors getting ready to pony up big bucks for the No. 2 auto vertical property. And Yahoo is upping its game in search through its content…
BIA/Kelsey, forecasting $52.9 Billion in national local spending by 2017, has unveiled its new Leading in Local: The National Impact conference, which will take place in Atlanta May 7-9. The 2.5 Day event is expected to be the largest gathering…
BIA/Kelsey, forecasting $52.9 Billion in national local spending by 2017, has unveiled its new Leading in Local: The National Impact conference, which will take place in Atlanta May 7-9. The 2.5 Day event is expected to be the largest gathering…
On Thursday, we'll host a live webcast with call monetization provider Ifbyphone. The topic: BIA/Kelsey projects mobile calls to local businesses will reach 65 billion annually by 2016. That's going to be a lot of calls to manage, track, route,…
Google is testing a new advertising feature that bridges the gap between people who have visited brands' websites via desktop with advertisements on their mobile devices, and vice-versa. This comes at a time where Desktop search in the US is…
Dex Media plans to spend 2014 moving past the integration phase that occupied much of last year, and into an execution phase focused on dialing in the right digital product set for small-business advertisers. The result should be an improving…
Chris Jennewein The layoffs at Patch have been met around the industry as the latest sign that hyperlocal can't work because of the difficulties in scaling content and ad sales locally while attracting a reasonable quorum of local readers. Hale…
Chris Jennewein The layoffs at Patch have been met around the industry as the latest sign that hyperlocal can't work because of the difficulties in scaling content and ad sales locally while attracting a reasonable quorum of local readers. Hale…