Millennials sometimes get a bad rap for being the disinterested and out of touch generation. But BIA/Kelsey survey data actually pegs them as the most in-touch (literally). When it comes to smartphone, tablet, and social networking they blow their gen-x…
All eyes are on "local" this morning on Wall Street, with GrubHub's IPO off to a great start. The company has placed 7.4 million shares priced at $26, or $192.4 million. The shares closed at $34. We've been watching GrubHub's…
All eyes are on "local" this morning on Wall Street, with GrubHub's IPO off to a great start. The company has placed 7.4 million shares priced at $26, or $192.4 million. The shares closed at $34. We've been watching GrubHub's…
SMBs now have about 76 million reasons to get their social and e-commerce strategy married. Millennials, those between the ages of 18-34, are making social e-commerce more prevalent than ever. According to our Consumer Commerce Monitor™ survey, 56 % of…
Small business marketing management and back office operations haven't had much cross over. Perhaps Intuit has worked to marry them together; so have Microsoft and Web.com. Until recently, that was the extent of it. Now we're seeing a new batch…
WalMart Global eCommerce CEO Neil Ashe told 1000+ digital marketing pros at the IAB's Annual Leadership Meeting in Palm Desert that their responsibility is to fully integrate their efforts throughout the organization. Ashe, who formerly ran CBS Interactive, said top…
Shopping through mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is re-shaping how purchases are made during one of the biggest consumer spending weekends of the year. According to the National Retail Federation, more than 141 million Americans shopped over the holiday…
ReachLocal announced today that it is moving away from its new ClubLocal business, which connects consumers with service providers. The publicly-owned company said that it is now considering a deal that would allow ClubLocal to be taken over by a…
Groupon's transformation from a daily deals company to a multi-channel shopping promotions and e-commerce portal continue with its launch today of Freebies, a new program that groups together online coupons, promo codes. sales, giveaways and samples. More than 5,500 brands…
Google's Payments division is seeking synergies across many of Google's business units - hence the recent insertion of several AdWords executives into the Payments leadership. Speaking at Money2020 in Las Vegas, Google Payment VP Ariel Bardin bluntly acknowledged that…
While industry hype would suggest that payments will be largely coming from the phone within a few years, a majority of Money 2020 attendees, in a survey, said it won't be happening until 2020 or later. The four question survey…
Card linked offers are increasingly being used by merchants and consumers alike. Indeed, a group of early adopters have already started using card linked offers on a weekly or monthly basis, with usage expected to be constant and universal within…
Merchants sometimes like to control their own promotions to their own list of customers, rather than waiting in line for Groupon or other deals publishers to do it for them. Yelp, for instance, is one company that has had success…
One way that big data is being applied at the local level is via Card Linked Offers that track consumer spending and target offers and promotions based on that behavior. Banks, credit card companies and payment processors have been especially…
Today at SMB Digital Marketing, Jeff Fagel, the new CMO of G/O Digital, Gannett's renamed local digital arm, offered a very Amazon-centric view of the local online ecosystem. Gannett has 82 daily newspapers and is the fourth-largest owner of TV…
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Ryan Roch who is a member of the partner team at Bigcommerce. This firm just made headlines recently by raising an additional $40m in venture capital. Bigcommerce has its headquarters in Sydney…
