According to the BIA Kelsey’s 2010 Local Commerce Monitor, the use of social media by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) who spend at least $25K in online marketing/year has risen dramatically over the past year. As I mentioned in my post on The Local Reviews Ecosystem, the focus on customer engagement via reviews and social [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Facebook Places'
48% of Small Businesses Have a Facebook Page – #ILM10
December 7th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Tags: Facebook · Facebook Places · Social Media Optimization
Check In Services Might Have An Edge on New Business Data
September 7th, 2010 · No Comments
If you have been following the saga of the newly opened Main Street Meat and Fish Market in Pleasanton, Greg Sterling and I were having a discussion last week about the fact that since they are a new business, they are not yet showing up in the local search databases like InfoUSA, Acxiom & Localeze, [...]
Tags: Facebook Places · GoWalla · Local Data · Local Search
Facebook Places – The API To Rule All API’s?
August 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments
So it’s finally here. Predictions: Facebook Places will (and probably already has) become the Twitter of location check-ins. Anyone creating an application that relies on check-ins will need to use Facebook Places as its foundation. And anyone who didn’t know what a check-in was two days ago probably knows what it is now. This is [...]
Tags: Facebook · Facebook Places
