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Local Onliner

Mar 11
2010

Red Beacon Teams with BigTent, Adds ‘Friendly Advice’

Red Beacon, one of the new breed of social/local leads providers for SMBs, said it is now available throughout the entire Bay Area and teaming up with BigTent, a mega-moms network in the Bay Area with more than 100 local cells. BigTent will receive a revenue share carved from Red Beacon’s 10 percent commission. The …continue reading »

Categories: Social Media, Verticals

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Nov 5
2009

The Angry Plumber: ‘Don’t Misappropriate My Online Listing!’

A flurry of business lead services have cropped up, each a variation on the model that has been successfully developed by ServiceMagic and others. They basically provide a directory, information, leads and marketing services. One of the new crop of lead services is HelpHive in Seattle, which recently launched and was profiled here. It provides …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Yellow Pages

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Sep 2
2009

Dealix Guarantees Its Leads are Good

Quality guarantees are the name of the game in 2009. On the consumer side, ServiceMagic and Idearc Yellow Pages have guaranteed the quality of work for their advertisers. Now, on the advertiser side, Cobalt’s Dealix is guaranteeing the quality of the leads they provide to auto dealers. Lead quality has been a major sore point …continue reading »

Categories: Verticals

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Mar 24
2009

Dealix Launches New Leads Platform

Online leads for cars are broken. The vast majority of auto shoppers won’t even fill out a request for bid because they think they’ll get inaccurate, incomplete and tardy information back from the dealer. But that doesn’t stop vendors from working on better solutions. Today, Cobalt’s Dealix division rolled out a new leads platform that …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Verticals

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Oct 3
2008

Interview: Autobytel CEO Jim Riesenbach on ABTL’s Future

The news hit the wires this week that Autobytel, one of the original third party auto sites, had hired RBC Capital Markets to explore its options, and was laying off 75 of its 225 workers. This was on top of recent executive departures (Mark Canon to Yell.com; Jon Rosen to SpotRunner). We asked CEO Jim …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Money, Verticals

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Sep 19
2008

DMS ’08: AT&T Advertising and Publishing CMO Ken Ray

AT&T CMO Ken Ray, speaking on a panel at Kelsey’s DMS 08 event this week in Atlanta, said print books have plenty of life in them but that publishers have got to work to make them relevant with “URLs, email, texting..using cell phones as a transactional device….a whole set of things we are already seeing …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Yellow Pages

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