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PayPal Targets SMBs With Product Suite; Name Change
Following its launch of PayPal Here, PayPal has confirmed that the mobile payment offering was just one piece of a larger initiative aimed at small businesses.
The company has [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 5th 2012
Yahoo Launches New Small Business Portal
Yahoo! Small Business has unveiled Yahoo! Small Business Advisor, a portal offering personalized entrepreneurial news, advice, and tools—plus a political component to keep viewers current with what is being said on the campaign trail this election season.
The content lineup will also feature personal small-business tips from chef Ming Tsai with additional posts from various celebrity entrepreneurs to follow.
[...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 6th 2012
Making Plans (Reluctantly) for a 7-inch Tablet
When Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility is complete it will have three tablets in its house, the smallest being the 8.2-inch Xyboard. However, Google is also eying producing a 7-inch tablet, according to CNET.
A DisplaySearch analyst told CNET that such a Google-branded tablet, with 1280x800 resolution, could enter the market later this year and that productio [...]
Posted: Friday, February 24th 2012
Share-to-Social Options, In Many Permutations, Continue to Grow for SMBs
Small-and-medium-sized businesses may not be in the vanguard of those firms that integrate their mobile, social and email marketing campaigns--but it is not due to lack of tools or services in the market.
Three Examples
Several have come to market in the last few weeks including:
MeritDirect and Penton Media have announced a service that provides links to social network [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 16th 2012
Small SMBs Still Don't Integrate Email with Social
GetResponse just published its latest "The State Of Email Marketing In SMBs. 2011 Report." One finding of note from the report, highlighted by Be Relevant, is that only 50% of the researched marketers integrate email with social media channel--"a surprisingly low result, given the recent in [...]
Posted: Monday, February 6th 2012
Top News: Strong December online spending | Three-screen ad traffic jam | 1M mobile apps
Mobile Commerce:
Online spending stays strong in early December.
Mobile Marketing:
AT&T bumps against Google, Microsoft in three-screen ad sell.
Soc [...]
Posted: Monday, December 12th 2011
Businesses Lose Control of Their Info on Google Places
Businesses that place a heavy emphasis on Google Places listing in their web search strategies must take into account a startling change just introduced by Google. From now on, it announced, it will make a change to any data about the business if any user provides new information about that business they know -- or Google’s system identifies information from another source on the web that may be m [...]
Posted: Friday, October 14th 2011
The Battle for the SMB Online Advertiser
Small-and-medium-sized companies are finding more and more online ad options available to them - options that meet their need for local buyers and their stretched balance books. One category has been the daily deal market. Indeed, a case can be made that the proliferation of such deal offerings has whetted small business’ appetite for more online ad formats.
[...]
Posted: Friday, September 16th 2011
Top News: Yahoo's scarce advertisers | Beta620 | Android flaw and mobile ads
Online Ad Market:
Yahoo attracting users, not advertisers.
New York Times introduces Beta620, a public site for its experimental projects.
The data-fueled display ad [...]
Posted: Monday, August 8th 2011
Don't Abandon Yelp Et Al For Google Reviews
A change in the way Google displays local business information will mean some companies will have to recalibrate their approach to customer reviews - but not as drastically as one might expect.
Briefly, late last week Google removed the customer reviews taken from other web sites such as Yelp for its Google "Pla [...]
Posted: Monday, July 25th 2011
Top News: OpenX competes in display | HP Touchpad's Facebook apps | Exclusive Hulu content | Cyber protection for SMBs
Online Ad Market:
OpenX takes on Google, others in online display ads.
A look at AdKeeper.
Mobile Computing:
The HP Touchpad will [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 28th 2011
Should a SMB Abandon its Website for Facebook?
Small and medium sized businesses have limited resources for marketing and web development. So naturally the question arises: should it invest anything at all in its own website when commerce and marketing and customers all seem to be shifting to Facebook? One company, albeit a non profit publishing venture, went through that reasoning process and decided that yes, Facebook was the better choice. The Rockville Central blog - named after the Maryland city it covers - stopped publishing new co [...]
Posted: Monday, June 27th 2011
Free Interior Photography! Google Kicks Up Places' Competitiveness a Notch
Google is adding a new feature to its Places and Street View offering - Google Business Photos. The point is to give would-be customers a view of the interior of that restaurant or local shop for which they are searching. Perhaps of even greater interest to small businesses, Google’s professional photographers will take the 360 degree shots themselves, gratis.
Local companies in select cities in the U.S., Japan, N [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 5th 2011
Top News: Google incorporates user feedback | Traffic down at post-paywall NYT | New Yorkers wants users to Like it on Facebook | Nokia launches new Symbian phones
Search:
Google incorporates user feedback, rolls out quality site algorithm globally.
In challenge to Google Places, Microsoft launches "Bing Business Portal" for SMBs.
Publishing:
[...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th 2011
Marketing Data RoundUp: Digital coupons grew 41% in 2010 | Moms and Their Smartphones | Customer reviews more important than SMBs' own websites
Digital Coupons Post 41% Growth in 2010
More than $1.2 billion in digital coupons savings was issued in 2010, representing 41% growth from the year before, according to data from Coupons.com's Digital Coupon Trends Report.
Compared to growth metrics for cou [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 30th 2011
Top News: Groupon breaks relationship with ad agency that designed its Super Bowl ads | The AT&T-T-Mobile deal | Facebook acquires Snaptu, adds check-ins to events | NYT's pay wall years in the making
Agencies and Ad Departments:
Groupon says it placed too much trust in agency that designed its Super Bowl ads.
Mobile Computing:
How the market values the AT&T-T-Mobile deal.
Why AT&T’s deal for T-Mobile must be b [...]
Posted: Monday, March 21st 2011
Top News: Google's search cleanup has major effect | Facebook's Like button now publishes full news feed | New online distribution channel for small biz ads | Google sees display as $200B biz
Search:
Google's search cleanup has big effect.
Google kills eHow competitors, eHow rankings up.
Social Media:
All of Facebook’s Like buttons on third-party sites now [...]
Posted: Monday, February 28th 2011
Cutting Through the Hype Around Hyper Local Numbers
New research from MerchantCircle shows that local businesses are using social media sites - namely Facebook - to fuel their local online campaigns. Facebook has now surpassed Google (66%) as the most widely used marketing method amongst local merchants, and is almost tied with Google search (40%) as one of their top three most effective marketing methods, [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 22nd 2011
Marketing Data RoundUp: Social media priority for SMBs | Mobile retailing on strong growth trajectory
Social Media Marketing Priority for SMBs in 2011
An overwhelming majority of small business owners plan to spend money on their business in 2011, according to a new survey by small business community Manta. Seventy-seven percent (77%) plan to spend in 2011 even though 85% reported they implemented across-the-board cuts in 2010. Nearly half (47%) have prioritized marketing and sales as their top spend, with [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 12th 2011
Marketing Data RoundUp: SMB online marketing budgets | Moms log online at 5 am | Consumers worry about social networking privacy
SMBs to Step Up Online Marketing Budgets
Marketing budgets are set to rise, according to a recent survey of more than 750 small to midsized business respondents by Zoomerang and GrowBiz Media. It found that most SMBs plan to increase their marketing spend in both online and print mediums, with online activities receiving the largest increases. Among the marketing initiatives expected to increase the mo [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 2nd 2010