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Feb 6
2012

Next Jump’s Charlie Kim: Deals Are Losing High End Women, Focus on Loyalty

The deals culture is shifting from customer acquisition to customer loyalty by necessity. Why? Deals have begun losing high income women. That’s the view of Next Jump CEO Charlie Kim, a featured speaker at ILM East in Boston March 26-28. “Daily deals had an initial surge then quickly lost flavor on a key customer segment …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Shopping/Transactions

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Feb 3
2012

BlueCross Adds Blue365 Health and Wellness Deals

We’re seeing more vertical players trying to leverage their brands with deal offerings and advertising. The latest one is Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Twenty-two Blue Cross state organizations around the U.S. are working with Analog Analytics to launch Blue365, a deal program offering health and fitness discounts, as well as adjacencies like tax prep. SnapFitness, eDiets.com, …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Verticals

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Feb 2
2012

Amazon Buys Teach Street, Folds it into Amazon Local

Amazon.com, which is moving in multiple directions vis a vis local, has agreed to buy TeachStreet, the service for matching teachers and students. Amazon’s interest appears to be less in TeachStreet than in the underlying ecommerce platform for SMBs. The platform already is being used by The Washington Post for its Service Alley SMB leads …continue reading »

Categories: Money, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals

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Feb 1
2012

Filing: Living Social Lost $558 Million in 2011

Living Social, in a battle with Groupon and other deal providers to gain (and keep) market share, lost an eye popping $558 million beyond its $245 Million in net earnings, according to a regulatory filing by Amazon.com, which owns 31 percent of the company. The filing was written about in today’s Washington Post. The Post …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Money

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Feb 1
2012

Devore’s Advice to Entrepreneurs: Be Wary of Local

Local isn’t easy, or even worthwhile. Chris Devore, Seattle-based co-founder of Judy’s Book, wants to remind entrepreneurs to stay away. In a new blog post, Devore gives three top reasons NOT to do a local + Online startup: 1- There’s no money in it 2- It doesn’t scale 3- It’s too obvious. “ Combine expensive, …continue reading »

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Jan 26
2012

New Vertical Focus: On Demand ‘Maintenance’ Info

The focus for vertical sites is likely to shift in coming months. In addition to regular features, such as listings, many vertical sites will also begin to blend personalized or on demand “maintenance” information with various social media features such as scheduling and reviews. We’ve seen it with garden and health sites, and also, increasingly, …continue reading »

Categories: Social Media, Verticals, Video

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Jan 23
2012

Gilt Groupe Lays off Gilt City CEO, Closes Several Local Offices

Gilt Groupe confirmed today that it is eliminating off 10 percent of its staff, including Gilt City chief Nathan Richardson and Park and Bond CEO John Auerbach. The layoffs at the luxury-but-discounted goods provider includes closures of several Gilt Groupe offices, including Atlanta, Seattle and Dallas, and several Gilt City offices inherited from last fall’s …continue reading »

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  • Events

    ILM East: The Largest East Coast Local Show
    Boston March 26-28

    Keynotes
    Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman of the Board, Groupon +++
    Jason Calacanis, CEO, Mahalo
    Michael Zimbalist, VP, Research Operations, New York Times
    Jay Herratti, CEO, CityGrid
    Leslie Berland, SVP, Social Strategy, American Express
    Michael Silberman, GM, NewYorkMag.com

    Featured Speakers
    Bill Bice, CEO, BoomTime
    Merrill Brown, co-founder. MSNBC.com, Court TV
    Geoff Cramer, CEO, Social Made Simple
    Juan Delgado, Managing Director, Americas, Perform!
    Jim Douglass, EVP, Cartera Commerce
    Jere Doyle, CEO, EverSave
    Walt Doyle, CEO, Where
    Josh Fenton, CEO, GoLocal24
    Adam Japko, CEO, Digital Sherpa
    Maria Kermath, Dir., New Tech, AT&T Advertising Sales
    Mark Josephson, SVP, AOL Local
    Charlie Kim, CEO, Next Jump
    John McIntyre, CEO, Pixelfish
    Scott Maxwell, Sr. Managing Director, Open View
    Randa Minkarah, SVP, Revenue, Fisher Communications
    Randy Parker, President, SMB Apps
    Mark Schmulen, GM, Social Media, Constant Contact
    Andy Slater, VP, Digital Agency Sales, Katz 360
    Andrew Shotland, Publisher, Local SEO Guide
    Christopher Tippie, CEO, FindNSave
    John Valentine, VP, Scvngr/Level Up
    Darren Waddell, EVP, Reply.com
    Zohar Yardani, CEO, Main St. Connect

    Welcome

    Thanks for coming to my personal site. Most of the content on this site is also found on BIA/Kelsey’s Local Media Watch, which includes material from other BIA/Kelsey analysts. I am a Vice President with BIA/Kelsey, and am focused on the Marketplaces research program.

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