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Mobile

Forget Local, the Mobile Future is Personal

by Sean Bartlett December 1, 2010

Location-based services and local deal sites are all the rage these days but the staying power of “local” as a stand-alone service or feature is going to be short lived, especially for mobile users. Much has been made of the stats from Bing and Google that tie local intent to mobile searches, but I contend [...]

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Foursquare and Yelp and Places, Oh My

by Dustin Diehl November 30, 2010

Over the past few weeks we’ve talked a lot about new coupon/deal/discount features that have been rolling out on popular location-based service platforms. Well, apparently, we’re not done. Last week, just in time for Black Friday, there were several announcements and examples that caught my eye: PepsiCo and Vons step it up on Foursquare – [...]

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Facebook Deals are great…but how do you find them?

by Dustin Diehl November 10, 2010

Shannon recently covered just about everything there is to know about Facebook Deals in her recent post. It certainly is a very cool Facebook addition (in fact, I plan on using H&M’s 20% discount after work today), and I think it’s only a matter of time before more brands join. That being said, I also [...]

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Welcome to Facebook Deals, Your Next Generation Loyalty Card

by Shannon Johnson November 5, 2010

A few months back, Facebook launched Facebook Places. We talked all about how Places works, what Places means for the location based services industry, and how it benefits marketers and businesses here. This week, Facebook launched Deals to allow businesses to reward customers for “checking in” to their establishments, further positioning Facebook as a leader [...]

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8 Requirements for Your Mobile Commerce Initiatives

by Sean Bartlett November 3, 2010

Mobile marketing, in one form or another, makes the headlines dozens of times each day. As more brands enter the fray, it’s becoming increasingly important to deploy programs that cater to sophisticated shoppers – and these shoppers expect an interaction on par with the desktop shopping experience.  For clarity, the following is about mobile commerce, [...]

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Mobile Apps vs. Mobile Web

by Steve Koch November 2, 2010

Last week, eMarketer released a survey from Adobe that reported most mobile users prefer to access content via the mobile web as opposed to mobile applications. Further, when looking at nine of the most popular categories of information that mobile users access, users preferred apps for only social, music and games – for everything else, [...]

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