Where is Facebook Moving in Local?
As promised in our LSA conference coverage last week, here is a deeper dive on Facebook's positioning and possible directions in local. I covered the topic in a bit more…
Facebook Local: “Around Me” or “Local Search”?
After writing about Facebook Director of Small Business Dan Levy's Interview at the Local Search Association Conference yesterday, I've been thinking a lot more about FB's possible directions in mobile and…
LSA 2013: Facebook’s SMB Efforts: A Good Start But Expect Much More
To cap off the Local Search Association Conference, Facebook Director of Small Business Dan Levy fielded questions from Greg Sterling on the past, present and future of Facebook's SMB marketing activity.…
Converting Facebook SMB Pages to Websites
Various companies have built SMB websites and landing pages by scraping the Web. PaperG comes to mind. How about using Facebook. BIA/Kelsey data from our Local Commerce Monitor shows that…
At ILM West: Facebook’s Dan Levy Shows Social is Working for SMBs
During the third and final day of our ILM West Conference, Facebook director of global SMB markets Dan Levy introduced a full slate of new data. In addition to hard…
SMB Digital 2012: Facebook’s Huang on Offers, SMB Services
Facebook’s Fred Huang spoke about the SMB mission with Facebook at SMB Digital marketing today in Chicago. He noted that the SMB product roadmap is about helping them spend less…
New at SMB Digital Marketing Sept. 17-19: Google, Facebook (And More)
We're putting the final flourishes on our SMB Digital Marketing conference Sept. 17-19 in Chicago, and they are big ones: top SMB decision makers for Google and Facebook, plus Entertainment.com…
The End of Facebook Credits (and Next Steps)
What happened to the theory that Facebook Credits would become a universal virtual currency, competing against the likes of PayPal and others? Facebook very quietly closed the program down a…
Sounding Off on Facebook’s IPO: The BIA/Kelsey Webinar
via CNN If anybody wonders whether the considerable “legs” of Facebook justify a valuation now set for $83 billion, have a listen to a terrific BIA/Kelsey webinar on Facebook’s IPO,…
Facebook Now Has 425 Million Active Mobile Users
As part of the information overload that is Facebook's long awaited S-1 filing, the company announced it is up to 845 million active global users (defined as monthly users). That's…