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Apr 28
2013

SpaFinder Last Minute: Scheduling as Promotion Opportunity

Is appointment scheduling poised to be a new anchor for service promotions? That vision –”look for an appointment, get a deal or upsell ” — has been articulated by a number of scheduling vendors, such as Agendize, FullSlate and Schedulicity. Most recently, RedBeacon founder Ethan Anderson has launched MyTime as a scheduling supermarket that allows …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Local Search, Shopping/Transactions

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Nov 25
2012

Retailigence: Store Inventory Aids Mobile Search, Spurs Sales

Building ecommerce, promotions, search, social and same day delivery services around store inventory is one of those high concept “local” concepts that always make so much sense but have been tough to build around. Intuit and eBay have both purchased inventory services (StepUp and Milo) and have integrated their capabilities into their other local services. …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Shopping/Transactions

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Oct 17
2012

Chris Terrill Discusses ServiceMagic’s Rebranding to ‘Home Advisor’

A few years ago, it became apparent that IAC’s ServiceMagic had stalled. While the 1,200 person company has continued to show growth, and had expanded to several international markets, it was clearly vulnerable to new challengers, ranging from Angie’s List and Yelp to new companies, such as Repair.com and RedBeacon (now owned by Home Depot.) …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Verticals

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Sep 25
2012

Newspapers’ ‘Wanderful Media’ Rethinks Digital Circulars

The consortium of 12 major newspaper companies that last year purchased Travidia, a digital circular vendor, has relaunched as Wanderful Media. The consortium, previously known as ShopCo., has committed $22 Million to the venture. It has also introduced a new tablet version of FindnSave.com, a site that launched last year under the old Travidia regime. …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Newspapers, Shopping/Transactions

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Sep 21
2012

SMB Digital 2012: Yodle’s Cunningham Takes on ‘The Experts’

Yodle CEO Court Cunningham, in a well received presentation at SMB Digital Marketing this week in Chicago, told attendees to constantly adapt to actual conditions in the marketplace, not what the “experts” tell us. The gist of Cunnigham’s comments were that experts are too often conflicted by their limited access to data and doing what …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Local Search

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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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Mar 22
2012

CityGrid Media Announces Jason Finger as New CEO

IAC announced today that SeamlessWeb founder Jason Finger will take over as CEO of its CityGrid Media unit April 12. CItyGrid Media includes the CityGrid ad network and Citysearch, Urbanspoon, Insider Pages and BuzzLabs. Finger was a founder of SeamlessWeb in 1999. The company grew to 21 U.S. cities plus London during his tenure. SeamlessWeb, …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Local Search, Sales Channels

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