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Local Advertising News

Jan
20
2010

Consumers More Accepting of Local Ads Online

Interesting article about the ‘ethics of advertising’ and how contextual targeting and behavioral targeting can impact journalistic integrity, or the perception thereof, on news sites.

Jan
8
2010

Biggest Problems for Small Businesses?

Poor sales cited as the number one challenge facing small businesses.

Dec
22
2009

Damage Control or Just Another Step in the Process?

Like an 8th grade relationship, the Google/Yelp saga continues.

Dec
15
2009

November 2009 Search Numbers From comScore

Microsoft’s Bing is up over 25% from May! …but is still only 10.3% of market.

Dec
14
2009

5 Trends That Will Help Shape Small Business in 2010

Here come the 2010 predictions. This one comes the way of the OPEN Forum and focuses on 5 trends that will shape the small business landscape in 2010.

Dec
11
2009

How People Really Use the Yellow Pages

MSN Money has a fun article about how people can actually put those Yellow Pages book to work. Notice none of them are finding a local business!

Dec
10
2009

Yahoo! Singles Out the Local Opportunity

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz singled out the opportunity and growth in the local market when discussing the future of her company.

Dec
8
2009

Opportunity in Locally Targeted Display Ads

BIA/Kelsey estimates that the local display advertising market will reach $1.9 billion by 2013, over double the $879 million spent in 2008.

Dec
8
2009

Favorite Places on Google

Like many of its competitors in the local search and review space, Google is launching a window sticker campaign.

Dec
7
2009

Recession and the Small Business

Undercapitalization is one of the primary drivers of the high failure rates for small businesses. Of all the impacts the recession has had on small business, the magnification of this particular issue is the greatest.