Recently, BIA/Kelsey had the opportunity to spend time with Bill Dinan, president of Telmetrics, including a one-on-one Q&A session at the Local Search Association conference on April 24. During the Q&A session and subsequent conversations we spoke about mobile, sales…
Online food ordering is seen as the next frontier for local online commerce. Two leading sites, GrubHub and Seamless, have attracted more than $134 million in funding between them, and the space could bring in more than $1 billion a…
Local Search Association President Neg Norton and LSA board Chairman and SuperMedia CEO Peter McDonald addressed the membership of the Local Search Starts Here conference giving a state of the industry overview. One of the messages McDonald relayed to the…
Merrill Brown, principal of MMB Media, joined ILM East conference architect Peter Krasilovsky on stage this morning to talk about the transition of hyperlocal and hypervertical sites from unprofitable hobby sites for civic and mom-and-pop organizations to one that is…
BIA/Kelsey Program Director Mike Boland ran yet another data packed and insightful mobile forum that attendees have come to love and expect at each BIA/Kelsey conference. With a power-packed lineup of speakers, Boland and the panelists covered the waterfront of…
Dex One Chief Strategy Officer David Sharman shared with us today some of the key challenges the longtime traditional directory publisher is facing as it evolves its business into the digital world. The primary challenge that he sees in the…
Nir Lempert, CEO of Israel-based Golden Pages, discussed his company's transformation from print to a vertically focused media player. The key to transforming, Lempert said, has been about empowering consumers. And thus the advertisers and revenues have followed. In 2004…
Only 1.25 percent of the 240 million websites online are mobile friendly. That statistic kicked off the DMS ’11 Mobile Tools for SMBs panel. Provided by DudaMobile, the company's CEO and cofounder, Itai Sadan, looks at the statistic and sees…
Capping off the first day of DMS ’11 and the Performance Media SuperForum was a one-on-one session with David Read, director of Pay for Performance of AT&T Advertising Solutions, and BIA/Kelsey moderator Charles Laughlin. Read talked specifically about how AT&T…
Steve Marshall moderated an ILM East panel today that focused on the local retail space with panelists that included Jack Abraham, CEO of Milo.com (eBay); David Courtney, CEO of JWire; and Tyler Bosemy, vice president, products of PaperG. Milo’s goal…
As is usual when we have SMBs on stage, our SMB advertiser panel was one of the highlights of the first day of ILM East. The local Boston area businesses provided attendees with the down-low on what’s working and what’s…
Panelists on the Home and Trade Revolution panel this afternoon echoed the sentiments BIA/Kelsey CEO Neal Polachek expressed during his opening presentation yesterday about the importance of trust. Increasingly, this level of trust is achieved through the process of service…
In the second half of the mobile local SuperForm run by BIA/Kelsey's own Mike Boland, the ILM:10 audience got to hear some key messages and metrics from leaders in the mobile local space including Where, xAD, Verve Wireless and Chitika.…
Community is key to building self-serve and upsell opportunities, believes MerchantCircle's Darren Waddell. Waddell along with Agendize's Alexandre Rambaud spoke on the "Self-Service -- It's Closer Than You Think" panel at the DMS '10 conference yesterday. MerchantCircle works with 1.3…
The reputation management space will be yet another hot topic at DMS ’10 next week. It's garnered a lot of press and new competitors in the past year, and as BIA/Kelsey anticipates this area to grow to roughly $3.1B in…
With just a few days remaining before the start of our DMS ’10 conference in Dallas, we wanted to preview a couple of hot topics that will likely receive a lot of buzz at the show. I will be co-moderating…
In a general session at YPA 2010 this morning, BIA/Kelsey's Charles Laughlin moderated an advertiser panel that featured two advertisers as well as two publisher representatives. The advertiser representatives were local Las Vegas personal injury attorney, George Bochanis, and Shannon…
In a general session at YPA 2010 this morning, BIA/Kelsey's Charles Laughlin moderated an advertiser panel that featured two advertisers as well as two publisher representatives. The advertiser representatives were local Las Vegas personal injury attorney, George Bochanis, and Shannon…
BIA/Kelsey's Charles Laughlin moderated a fascinating panel this morning featuring four CEOs from the interactive local media space. Laughlin was joined by Kimberli Lewis, CEO, Mediatel (Czech Republic); Scott Pomeroy, CEO of Berry, a Local Insight Media company; Mat Stover,…
This morning at the Yellow Pages Association 2010 conference, association President Neg Norton presented a lifetime achievement award to John Kelsey, founder of The Kelsey Group, now BIA/Kelsey. John founded The Kelsey Group in 1986 with his wife Pam Kelsey,…
