You have a new business… perhaps a bar, a coffee shop, or maybe a GIS consulting firm! Regardless of the business type, if you have a brick and mortar presence then you need to g...
MerchantCircle, an online network of US local business owners, revealed in its quarterly reports that more local businesses are turning to Facebook and other social networking...
Google has launched a feature for its iPhone and Android mobile search that lets you see results for only local businesses that are actually open at the time of the search. Whil...
Can Groupon own the deals space the way Google owns search? It's hard to imagine the space being dominated by any one company. Forget for a second that it has Google and Faceboo...
Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley appeared on CNBC, discussing how Foursquare can compete with Facebook.
"They're a huge platform and a big competitor, b...
Google has reportedly been in talks with SinglePlatform, a local business content publisher network that provides hotels, restaurants, bars and PR firms with a place to manage t...
Local marketing firm ReachLocal announced that it has acquired New York-based Deals company DealOn, as company's everywhere try to get in on the hot local deals goldrush. ReachL...
Taking advantage of all the buzz about daily deals, CitySearch has taken it upon itself to provide a convenient way for user to check out available deals from one spot (an...
No wonder local Internet marketing is a mystery to many SMB's and even much larger businesses and organizations. Setting aside the fact that there are so many different channels...
I have been pretty harsh on the Yellow Pages in the past. Most of my trouble comes from the fact that the medium just isn't as effective across all verticals as it once was. Tha...
Search engines have become one of the primary ways that people find products and services right in their hometown. This growing reality significantly increases the need for smal...
Google has a new project in the works that appears to be a direct competitor to Groupon. It's called Google Offers. According to an official fact sheet about the product,...