Don't know if anyone heard about us http://www.smartlocalshoppers.com. We are offering local biz free local advertising to acquire more local shoppers. We are also wondering who wants to make extra money by helping out local businesses?
"It’s not that local companies won’t have a hard time raising money or generating revenue (particularly from SMBs that are having a hard time themselves), it’s just that the market is so massive and the offerings so fragmented that it seems like there is still a lot of green field, even in a down market."
- Ryan Kuder
from Bookmarklet
The picture and the latter part of the head line says one thing - the text says another thing.
- ivanandersson
Wanted to remind everyone that Nov.1 is the deadline to apply to the Knight News Challenge (newschallenge.org) for $5MM in funding to support projects that empower local communities around news, discourse, community discussion. You do not need to be a non profit to apply. Check out the guidelines!
"The Kelsey Group released data a couple months ago that suggested SMB ad spending was holding steady amid the economic downturn. Opus Research/Allbusiness found something basically similar. But in the last two days, two surveys have shown that the mood of SMBs is not as cheery as it was."
- Ryan Kuder
from Bookmarklet
Greg Sterling has a rather bleak post on SMB spending trends.
- Ryan Kuder
"And when you drill down into it, what’s really a game changer is that the best local search tools all have become platforms for conversation - in this case, conversation about the products, services, and intangibles of each small business."
- Ryan Kuder
from Bookmarklet
"Where to start? Perhaps 1995, when several newspaper chains put $9 million into a consortium called New Century Network. "The granddaddy of fuckups," as one suitably crotchety industry veteran tells us, folded in 1998."
- Ryan Kuder
from Bookmarklet
This was a funny piece - leave it to ValleyWag to be ironic and poignant with a tinge of insult ;)
- David Cohn