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Oct 20

2009

CitySquares Featured in WSJ: ‘Valuable Tips, For Free’

CitySquares, the Boston-based city guide company, is prominently featured in the “Small Business” section of The Wall Street Journal today (subscription required). The subject? Its frequent use of volunteer advisors (something we have first-hand knowledge of, actually). The article boasts a big picture of co-founder Ben Saren, shown above. It notes that CitySquares’ business was …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal

Tags: CitySquares, Wall Street Journal

Jul 31

2008

The Challenges Inherent in Invading Yellow Pages

The Wall Street Journal today wrote about the challenges that newspapers have in trying to sell to small local businesses. Beth Lawton at the Newspaper Association of America kindly asked us to add some context to the article (subscription required). Here is our piece. ….As the Wall Street Journal article highlights, many newspapers are looking …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Google, Local Search, Newspapers, Sales Channels, Verticals, Yellow Pages

Tags: Local Search, NAA, Newspapers, resellers, Wall Street Journal, Yellow Pages

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