Peter Krasilovsky's

Local Onliner

May 12
2010

Merchant Circle Goes International, Opens API

Merchant Circle, which has established some expertise in launching markets on the cheap, says it is going international with new sites for Canada, the U.K. and Australia. It had previously announced that it is opening up its API to allow sites to use its reviews, ratings and enhanced profiles on an ala carte basis. HelloMetro, …continue reading »

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Jan 18
2010

MerchantCircle Celebrates Registration of Millionth SMB

MerchantCircle has registered its millionth SMB, Nassau Avenue Nails of Islip, NY. Owner Danielle Biegler found out about MerchantCircle after searching for other local businesses nearby, and will receive a lifetime Merchant Circle tools, cool Merchant Circle gear and a new sign. The million number represents roughly 6.7 percent of U.S. SMBs. It may not …continue reading »

Categories: Social Media, Yellow Pages

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Oct 30
2009

ShopCity Partners with Chambers of Commerce, Local Govts

The potential of working with Chambers of Commerce to sell online marketing accounts to local businesses is an alluring one. They potentially can provide the highest quality, best context leads for SMBs. Initial efforts to partner with Chambers, however, haven’t generally worked out due to their poor focus, lack of training, business conflicts, and several …continue reading »

Categories: Shopping/Transactions

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Sep 9
2009

MerchantCircle Tries to Get Stickier with ‘Neighbors’ and ‘Answers’

MerchantCircle is seeking to transform itself from a source of search engine leads for SMBs into more of a destination site that consumers and businesses will use over and over again. The company reports 20 million unique visitors, which if calculated in a certain way, would make it the fifth largest Internet Yellow Pages. It …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Social Media, Verticals, Yahoo

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Aug 19
2009

Web.com, MerchantCircle to Market Each Other’s SMB Services

Web.com and MerchantCircle are teaming up to leverage Web.com’s appeal as a provider of “premium” SMB services, and MerchantCircle’s appeal as an introductory-level provider of SMB services that is more oriented towards building traffic and selling advertising. Web.com is a publicly-owned SMB marketing giant that includes premium Website development and search engine marketing via its …continue reading »

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

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Jun 30
2009

MerchantCircle Adds Local Coupons on Twitter

Coinciding with its high showing in the Quantcast analysis, MerchantCircle today announced that it has added a local city coupon feed for Twitter. Merchant coupons will now be fed to city-specific Twitter feeds (i.e. @MCircleNY) so that local consumers can find local coupons and events in real-time. MerchantCircle reports that more than 50,000 coupons and …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Shopping/Transactions

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Jun 30
2009

Quantcast Publishes ‘Top 10′ Online Directories

Figuring out who is on top of the heap in the online directory business is a complex task: on one hand, a “directory” category is kind of an oxymoron, given that so much of what is quantified is based on search engine optimization. Only 25 percent of Citysearch’s traffic, for instance, comes from its destination …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Local Search, Research, Yellow Pages

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