Toddy When Groupon acquired Pelago-Whrrl recently, it was not uncommon for some to be reminded of eBay taking ownership of Where. Larger enterprises stepping into “hyper-local” easily comes to mind as the theme shared by these two events. But, maybe not. There is no doubt that...
Toddy Now, when you visit Google Map Maker and access the United States’ map you can enhance the information with everything you personally know about your own region. There is almost nowhere that visitors will not have the most recent details available through the site’s 187...
Charmaine LocalResponse is a new social media tool that basically tells which customers you should reward for their loyalty to your business. The tool collects all online data from location check-ins to your establishment and conversation about your business from various social networking sites such as Twitter,...
Rebecca Although the mobile-based deals site is like its larger competitors in many ways, Scoutmob received a flood of publicity recently due to raising a $1.5 million round. Upon closer inspection, Scoutmob reveals itself to be a radical business model upending traditional group buying. In other...
Rebecca Some interesting information has come to light regarding the relationship between call or lead quality and the duration of a call, according to new data released by Telmetrics. Bill Dinan of Telmetrics said the new data was obtained through the company’s past experiences and recording...
Google's new algorithm is shaking things up in local search engine rankings. The situation is pretty dire for many businesses. Hiring a search engine optimization company may be the only way to secure top rankings in today's SERP environment. Short of that, here are four...
Last week Google hosted an earnings press statement session. Susan Wojcicki, Senior V. P of Advertising made many revealing statements, but the most interesting was about the company's click-to-call program. She said: '' We’re also seeing Click-to-Call taking off with more than half a million advertisers...
Since February of 2011, Google has been strategically rolling out a new algorithm called Panda(also called Google Farmer). It has now been instituted globally and many companies are seeing the backlash. Some websites have jumped while many others have dropped dramatically. Here are four aspects...
According to some insider information about LivingSocial, after its recent acquisition of SocialMedia, it is valued in the neighborhood of $2.9 billion. Its projected 2011 revenues will be very close to $1 billion. This really is not an insider tip, the numbers have been available for...
It does not kill an iPad, rather it’s an iPad app that can kill the competitors’ iPad apps. This Microsoft innovation is considered by many as more impressive than the Bing’s iPhone app. This iPad works wonders and it’s optimized with the tablet. In comparison to...