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Street Fight Daily: GoDaddy Resumes IPO Push, Google’s Local “Snack Pack”
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… All Systems Go for GoDaddy IPO (New York Post) GoDaddy is expected to have a much easier time selling...
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Street Fight Daily: Apple Pay’s Slow Growth, Postmates Delivers Starbucks
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… 85% Of iPhone 6 Owners In The U.S. Haven’t Bothered Trying Apple Pay, Study Claims (VentureBeat) Apple...
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Street Fight Daily: Amazon Launches Home Services, Angie’s List Freezes...
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amazon Launches Home Services To Sell Everything From an Oil Change to Piano Lessons (Verge) Amazon...
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Street Fight Daily: GoDaddy Goes Public, ClassPass Struggles With Success
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… GoDaddy Shares Soar in Debut as Investors Buy Into Revamp (Recode) GoDaddy’s shares rose almost 31...
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Street Fight Daily: Nokia Weighs Sale of Maps, GoDaddy Keeps Buying Startups
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Nokia Weighs Sale of Maps Business to Focus on Networks (Bloomberg) Nokia Oyj is exploring the sale of...
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Street Fight Daily: Amazon Enters Local Travel, Facebook’s Coming Algo-Change
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amazon Travel Launches New Brand, Amazon Destinations (Skift) Amazon pulled the trigger and has quietly...
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Street Fight Daily: McDonald’s Beacon Strategy, Yelp Stock Plummets
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… McDonald’s Beacon Strategy Pushes In-Store Conversion Rate To 20% (Mobile Marketer) McDonald’s recently...
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Street Fight Daily: Square Raises $100M, GoDaddy’s Turnaround
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Square Raises More Money to Make Small Business Loans (Fortune) Square, the Silicon Valley payments...
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GoDaddy Is Changing Its Business — But Investors Worry the Change Isn’t Fast...
Five weeks after going public, and Blake Irving’s strategy at GoDaddy appears to be working. But investors remain worried that the transitions are not happening fast enough. The company reported...
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Local Tech Businesses Diversify to Serve a Wider Range of SMB Needs — But Do...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last half-decade, you’ve probably noticed the frantic pace of mergers and acquisitions in SMB/local tech. The general theme is single-product companies...
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Street Fight Daily: Uber Reportedly Losing Money Despite VC Success, Yelp and...
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Here Are the Internal Documents that Prove Uber Is a Money Loser (Gawker) Uber is presumed to be a...
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Openings and New Hires at GoDaddy, Revel Systems, Gatehouse Media
Every two weeks, Geoff Michener covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. Please send him a message via LinkedIn if you’d like to share any job changes. (Plus, scroll...
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Lesson From Yodle’s Acquisition: Scaling SMB Performance Marketing Isn’t So Easy
Web.com agreed last Thursday to acquire Yodle, an SMB marketing solutions provider (and my former employer) for $342 million. Web.com is best known for the domain registration and website hosting...
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Street Fight Daily: Yelp’s New Home Services Feature, Return of the QR Code?
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Now You Can Get Price Quotes for Home Services Inside Yelp (BuzzFeed) Whether you need a tub caulked or...
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Street Fight Daily: Uber and Foursquare Join Forces, Twitter Disbands...
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber and Foursquare Team Up to Make It Easier to Find Your Destination (Mashable) The ride-hailing...
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New App From GoDaddy Wants to Help Entrepreneurs Brainstorm Business Ideas
Ever had a brilliant idea for starting a business, or maybe just wanted to make some key overhauls to an existing business but never felt confident enough to pursue it? Perhaps some marketing pros and...
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Openings and New Hires at Zenreach, Rocketspace, TruMeasure
Every two weeks, Geoff Michener covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. Please send him a message via LinkedIn if you’d like to share any job changes. (Plus,...
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GoDaddy Beefs Up SMB Offerings With WordPress Websites
Websites are the foundation of any digital marketing program for small businesses, and yet nearly half of merchants (46%) still don’t have their own websites. Web hosting giant GoDaddy is looking to...
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Street Fight Daily: GoDaddy Acquires Euro Rival for $1.8 Billion, How...
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… GoDaddy Acquires Rival Host Europe Group for $1.79 Billion (VentureBeat) GoDaddy has been pushing to...
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GoDaddy Launches Simple Way to Scale Up E-Commerce Sites
It’s probably safe to say few small business owners want to be bogged down trying to keep their e-commerce sites running. If they want to drive more revenue, they need to focus on meeting their...
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