It’s Wafer Thin.
Has to be one of the funniest scenes ever made.
Google Toe Tags Tags
Just saw the news over at Greg’s blog and couldn’t resist…
See You At The YPA Conference in Vegas Next Week
I’ll be running a session at the Yellow Pages Association 2011 conference on Tuesday morning on SEO for Local Directories in the Post-Panda World. I’ll be there both Monday and Tuesday so ping me if you are going to be there and want to hook up. Conference info here.
Google HotPot Was Always Sort of a Crock
Lior Ron announced today that Google is dumping the HotPot brand for its local reviews system and rolling it into Google Places. It’s a good move and I am guessing an indicator of more product coherence from GOOG as a result of Larry Page becoming CEO. I was always confused by the HotPot brand. Most, […]
Is Gmail Your Biggest Competitor?
I logged into Gmail today and saw the following message: Ironically a second later I got the following email from a client: So you probably already know this, but thought I would share. I am working on an email to past customers, and in the process of testing it, I send a copy to my […]
The Butchers on Yonge Street: Group-Buying Blowback
During Yipit’s presentation on Group Buying Data at ILMEast this morning James Moran mentioned that a deal from DealFind for The Butchers on Yonge Street in Toronto could have been one of the most successful daily deal offers yet. The Canadian company offered 69% off meat orders and sold over 11,000 orders which generated over […]
James Moran of Yipit: Group Buying By The Numbers – #ILMEast
Thought I’d do some liveblogging of Jim’s talk at ILM East. First a couple of Deal-a-Day forecast nuggets from Bobbi Loy-Luster Volume will increase but growth rates will taper off. $873MM in 2010 daily deal revenues Low forecast = $2B in 2015. High forecast=$6B. Now to Yipit: Yipit aggregates daily deals from a variety of […]
Yext Tags Cracks Self-Serve SMBs? #ILMEast
UPDATE 11.25.12: Since I wrote this over a year ago, a lot has changed. Yext has pivoted its business away from pay-per-call to business listings management to help you manage your yellow pages listings from a single dashboard. The service is called Yext PowerListings. Yext Powerlistings can automatically update your business’ information across 50+ of […]
At BIA/Kelsey ILM East Boston Next Week
I’ll be running a “National Brands & Local Search” panel with Elnora Palms from Uhaul and Matthew Marko from Progressive. I’ll also be lurking the halls doing my usual schmoozefest and interviewing some of the emerging players in the social local search game for the new Social Local Media service I have partnered with BIA/Kelsey […]
Groupon Reviews As Google Places Citations = More IYP SEO Woe
Reviews of businesses on Groupon have been spotted on Google Place Pages since January: Last year I speculated that social local applications like Twitter & Foursquare could start to cause a lot of SEO problems for IYPs because they could easily replicate the IYP structure while providing a lot more unique content. Groupon reviews are […]