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Jan 15
2010

WSJ: Sears Refocuses on Online and Mobile Apps

Sears is loath to invest in its physical stores but has built a collection of “shop your way” online and mobile services as a high margin substitute, according to an article on WSJ.com. The article notes that Sears’ ecommerce division boasts 180 employees, and has boosted its revenue by “double digits” in the past two …continue reading »

Categories: Shopping/Transactions

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Oct 21
2009

HelpHive, a Referral Site, Seeks to Rope in SMBs with Free Video

Smelling blood at the presumed decline of Yellow Pages, a number of sites have launched that provide leads to local service SMBs. You got Angie’s List on the membership side. And ServiceMagic, Tree.com’s DoneRight, Sears’ ServiceLive and a number of regional companies (i.e. RedBeacon, Fixr, LocalPrice) using some type of leads model. Now add HelpHive. …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Sales Channels, Verticals, Video

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Feb 24
2009

Sears Launches ServiceLive.com, a Leads Site

Sears will try to leverage its identity with home improvement and repair with ServiceLive, a new leads provider for service pros that is being pitted against ServiceMagic, Angie’s List, DoneRight and others. The tagline for the service, which begins a marketing campaign next week, is “Your price. Your time. Your way.” Its basic concept is …continue reading »

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

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