Tag: Local

Is This Facebook’s Most Small Business-Friendly Offering Yet?
Facebook announced the launch of its local awareness ads last fall. These enable local business advertisers to target Facebook users based on their location. If a person is near th...
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Yelp Talks About Its Efforts In Ad Sales
Yelp released its Q1 earnings report on Wednesday, disappointing investors and sending its share price downward. The company did...
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Is Facebook More Small Business-Friendly Than You Thought?
Facebook is dedicating more resources to trying to stay in the good graces of small businesses, even after it has continually made changes to its News Feed algorithm over the past...
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Yelp Shares Findings On Consumer Reservations
Yelp is sharing some findings from a national survey it commissioned from Nielsen to "get intel on how consumers across the country are making reservations." This comes as the c...
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Sheryl Sandberg On What Facebook Is Doing For Small Businesses
In recent months there have been a lot of articles written about how Facebook is hurting or "failing" small businesses. In November, Tech Times...
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Square Gives Small Businesses Attractive New Email Marketing Option
Square just announced a new service that might make email marketing service providers a little nervous. It's called Square Marketing, and comes with an email marketing solution for...
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Amazon Starts Handpicking Local Service Businesses To Put In Front Of Customers
Amazon announced the launch of a new service called Amazon Home Services, which lets customers browse, buy, and schedule appointments with professional services via a marketplace o...
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Google Adds Call-Only Campaigns To AdWords
Google announced the launch of new call-only campaigns for AdWords. These let businesses reach customers by prominently showing their phone number, business description, and a call...
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Yelp Is Beefing Up Its Sales Staff
Yelp released its earnings report for the fourth quarter and full year 2014 on Thursday, and as...
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Yelp Grew Local Advertising Accounts 48% Over 2014
Yelp just released its earnings report for the fourth quarter and full year 2014. Net revenue for the quarter grew 56% year-over-year as the company grew local advertising accounts...
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Why Aren’t SMBs Investing More In Online Marketing?
Local SEO firm BrightLocal recently released some findings from its annual SMB Inter...
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Google Rolls Local Update Out To More Countries
Back in July, Google launched an algorithm update that shook up local search results in the U.S. While Google never gave it an official name like Panda or Penguin that we're aware...
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eBay Labels Now Available On Mobile
eBay announced that it is now offering sellers labels from its mobile apps. While you could access and print labels from the desktop before, the functionality has been expanded to...
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Etsy Launches New Local Feature In Pilot
Etsy announced that it's launching a pilot program that will alert shoppers on their mobile device that an Etsy seller they like is selling at a local event. "Etsy Local push n...
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Bing Adds Quick Answers For Local Info
Microsoft announced that Bing will now display quick answers to queries related to local information. These come in the form of "facts" at the top of the search page, which provide...
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