Dealfind Nabs $31 Million for North American Expansion
Dealfind, a Toronto-based daily deal site, has raised $31 million as it strives for rapid growth to reach 100 markets in Canada and the U.S. The site, which has sold…
Travelers Get Best Local Daily Deals Via ‘GTrot Deals’
Travel deals are hot. Social networks are hot. Group buying is hot. But when travelers go to a new city, they often don’t have the social networks and group buying…
ILM Dialogues Part I: Foursquare
This week, we release a report that takes a closer look at some of the content that was shared on our ILM East stage last month. This is part one…
Local Offer Network Gets $1.5 Million
If you can’t be a major destination site such as Groupon or LivingSocial, the deal exchange space appears to represent the largest revenue opportunity for deals companies. Exchanges, which take…
ILM East: Video Excerpts
We've posted short video clips from the Q&A portions of some of the sessions from our recent ILM East conference in Boston. You can check them out by going to…
This Week in Social Local Media
We had a big week at ILM East. The conference got under way with David Weinberger focusing on the use of social media by local businesses. In the post, Rick…
Mismanaged Daily Deals + Customer Reviews = Reputation Management Beef
Yipit's presentation on Group Buying analytics this morning highlighted a high-performing daily deal from a Canadian butcher. Quite accidentally, I stumbled on some customers who didn't like how the business…
ILM East: Anything but SoLoMotion
BIA/Kelsey mobile analyst Mike Boland set up some key themes governing the fast growing work of SoLoMo (social-local-mobile, a coinage of venture capital icon John Doerr) at the opening of today's Mobile…
The Mobile & Social Scene at #ilmeast
Around here, we're all busy gearing up for our big ILM East next week in Boston. There's a great lineup of speakers including lots of mobile, socia, and group buying action.…
This Week in Social Local Media
On the blog this week, Mike B. covered the big news about Foursquare's new app and introduced us to Lolay. Jed shared some thoughts about the deal between Bing and The…