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Jan 7
2011

TownHog: Media Partners Offer ‘Higher Quality’ Users for Deals

A slew of companies provide white label deal a day services for media partners (i.e. Nimble Commerce, Deal Current, ShoutBack, Matchbin, Wantsa, Vendasta, Analog Analytics, it goes on). Another breed maintain their own local deal sites, and flesh them out with local media partners in the same market, building up an inventory. These include the …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Sales Channels

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Jan 5
2011

Talkin’ ‘Tags’ with Yext CEO Howard Lerman

Yext’s Tags initiative is a big one, going up against Google Places with a broad (and “open”) network of 20 participating Internet Yellow Pages and online directory sites, including AOL’s Mapquest and Patch, Citysearch, Superpages, Yahoo! and Yellowbook. Yext CEO Howard Lerman describes Tags as “full-time, real listing information” that will eventually go beyond simply …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Local Search, Sales Channels, Yellow Pages

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Jan 5
2011

Centro Gets $22.5 Million; Sees Big Growth in Regional Display

Centro, a pioneer in local online ad placement for national marketers, has received $22.5 million in equity financing from FTV Capital. The money will go towards expanding its regional sales presence and also towards software development. CEO Shawn Riegsecker tells us that he anticipates adding six to eight regional offices to its existing roster of …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Sales Channels, Verticals

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