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Jan 31
2011

Regional Help Wanted Founder Creates ‘Digital ValPak’-like Service

Angie’s List, Kudzu and The Washington Post’s new ServiceAlley are providing group buying promotions for home and trade services. But is group buying the right paradigm for home and trade services? Regional Help Wanted Co Founder Eric Straus says “no.” Instead, Straus has launched 10LocalCoupons.com, which offers home and trade services the ability to include …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, TV/Radio

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Jan 27
2011

Everyday Health Launches Local Health Deals

EveryDay Health, the health portal with 26 million unique visitors coming from its 25 brands, including Revolution Health, Mayo Clinic and Drugstore.com, is going local via Health Deals, a group buying site. The site will leverage the company’s extensive email list, and is powered by Group Commerce. The idea is to be the place where …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Verticals

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Jan 26
2011

Facebook Acquires ‘Hyper-Local Mobile Advertising’ Service

They say that Facebook’s major focus this year is on mobile. That’s apparently where it’s acquisition of Seattle-based Rel8tion LLC fits in – except that we don’t really know much more about the company, other than the fact that it has been working on hyper-local mobile advertising for nine months. Facebook itself makes no claims …continue reading »

Categories: Misc

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Jan 25
2011

Initial Speaker Lineup Set for ILM East, March 21-23 in Boston

We’ve just announced the initial lineup for ILM East in Boston, March 21-23, which follows hot on the heels of our Interactive Local Media 2010 conference in Santa Clara – possibly the largest local event ever, with 681 attendees. ILM East is a brand new show, built to leverage this fast-changing environment. We’re especially excited …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences

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Jan 24
2011

Local.com Creates ‘Social Buying’ Division

One of the bigger questions is how the local portals will fully leverage the emerging social deals platform, with deal a day, coupons, flash sales et al. Local.com, which reaches 22 million unique visitors via its destination site and network, has been wrestling with the question as well. Today, the company has announced that it …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Shopping/Transactions, Social Media

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Jan 20
2011

THIS is E-Commerce: Living Social, Amazon Score 1.2 Million Sales

When Amazon made its deal to invest $175 million in Living Social, it wasn’t entirely clear how Amazon played in the local deal space. Sure, Amazon has its own non-local deals. And it owns Dallas-based Woot, a product-based deals provider. Still, it wasn’t clear. Today, we have a better idea how they play together. Amazon …continue reading »

Categories: Deals

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Jan 19
2011

Village Voice Media Adds Deals, Mobile: 1.8 M email addresses in 2011?

Alt weeklies have certainly taken a hit from city guides (and especially, from classifieds sites such has Craig’s List.) There has been a great deal of consolidation in the space. Yet the biggest consolidator, Phoenix-based Village Voice Media, with 14 local city titles, says it had weathered the storm and successfully branched out to the …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Mobile, Newspapers

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