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Local Onliner

Jan 8
2013

Antengo Pushes on Mobile Classifieds: ‘Websites Mean Nothing to Us’

Vertical sites such as AutoTrader, Cars.com, Zillow and Trulia that provide listings, services and features are seeing a large share of their user base move to mobile. But all-in-one classifieds sites in the mode of Craig’s List, Pennysaver, Recycler.com, newspapers and alt weeklies haven’t moved as fast to mobile. Can a mobile all-in-one approach (i.e. …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Mobile

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Aug 21
2012

Trulia’s S1: Strong Focus on Monthly Fees, Mobile Monetization

Trulia, which provides real estate Web and mobile leads, display advertising and real estate-oriented social media services, has followed in the footsteps of its rival, Zillow, and issued an S1 in preparation for going public and raising $75 Million. Zillow’s IPO has been highly successful – it went out last July at $20 and is …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Local Search, Mobile, Money, Social Media, Verticals

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Nov 22
2011

New at ILM West: Google, Facebook, SoLoMo Day +++

ILM West is shaping up to be one of the great ones. Taking place Dec. 12-14 in downtown San Francisco, ILM West really reflects a sea change in local marketing from advertising to the new hybrid model of advertising and commerce (i.e. prepaid deals, reputation management, mobile app sales etc.). We’ve made some big additions …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Conferences, Deals, Google, HyperLocal, Local Search, Mobile, Money, Newspapers, Research, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Social Media, Technology, TV/Radio, Verticals, Video, Yellow Pages

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Jul 25
2011

Mobile Seen as ‘Better Platform’ for Used Goods

When you get beyond the limited form factor of mobile, it really turns out to be a better platform for creating, managing and bidding on used goods, says Dan Zheng, a co-founder of EggDropApp, a new mobile-based auction service. Mobile is fast, geo-location oriented, fun and can be programmed for automatic notifications when items are …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions

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Dec 29
2010

New Era for Local Shopping Portals; Travidia Launches ‘FindnSave’

Shopping portals have moved beyond “federated search,” and now combine the best of daily deals, coupons, weekly ads and other promotional information in ways that are more efficient — and drive more shopping. At the national level, Gannett’s ShopLocal.com has been moving in this direction for some time. At the local level, we’ve recently seen …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Newspapers, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Social Media, Verticals

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Dec 20
2010

eBay Firms Up Local Strategies

In case you haven’t noticed, eBay has been ramping up a local strategy in the past few months via the integration of all its vertical properties with its home site, the $75 million purchase of Milo.com, and today, a $200 million acquisition of Brands4Friends, a fashion-oriented, German ecommerce site with 3.5 million members and 200 …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Deals, Shopping/Transactions

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Nov 17
2010

Oodle Buys Grouply: Moving The Social Graph Beyond (Just) Friends

Group software seems obsolescent in the social revolution. Or is it? A few weeks ago, John Battelle’s Federated Media acquired Big Tent, the women’s group enabler with 1.3 million users. It apparently plans to target women with very specific advertising. Oodle, the mega-classifieds platform, has now followed course, buying Grouply, which is described by TechCrunch …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Social Media

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