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Keynotes:
Bill Gross, CEO, IdeaLab
Jason Finger, CEO, CityGrid Media
David Krantz, CEO, YP
Dan Levy, Director Global SMB, Facebook
Todd Rowe, GM, Global Channel Partners, Google50+ Featured Speakers, including:
Sean Moriarty, former CEO, TicketMaster
James Moroney III, CEO, The Dallas Morning News
Doug Neil, SVP, Digital, Universal Studios
Kris Barton, Chief Product Officer, ReachLocal
Elnora Cunningham, Director, Search, U-Haul
Victor Ho, CEO, FiveStars
Jeff Folckemer, CEO, LocalEdge
Kathy Geiger-Schwab, CEO, Geiger-Schwab Consulting
Matt Archer, Director, ComScore
Ben T. Smith IV, CEO, Wanderful Media
Loren Beldele, CEO, Savings.com
Mike Hodges, President, UT San Diego
Michael Vivio, President, Cox Target Media
Perry Evans, CEO, CloselyWelcome
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Chris Terrill Discusses ServiceMagic’s Rebranding to ‘Home Advisor’
A few years ago, it became apparent that IAC’s ServiceMagic had stalled. While the 1,200 person company has continued to show growth, and had expanded to several international markets, it was clearly vulnerable to new challengers, ranging from Angie’s List and Yelp to new companies, such as Repair.com and RedBeacon (now owned by Home Depot.) …continue reading »
Categories: Local Search, Verticals
Tags: Chris Terrill, Home Advisor, IAC, ServiceMagic
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Newspapers’ ‘Wanderful Media’ Rethinks Digital Circulars
The consortium of 12 major newspaper companies that last year purchased Travidia, a digital circular vendor, has relaunched as Wanderful Media. The consortium, previously known as ShopCo., has committed $22 Million to the venture. It has also introduced a new tablet version of FindnSave.com, a site that launched last year under the old Travidia regime. …continue reading »
Categories: Local Search, Newspapers, Shopping/Transactions
Tags: Ben Smith, FindnSave, Newspapers
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SMB Digital 2012: Yodle’s Cunningham Takes on ‘The Experts’
Yodle CEO Court Cunningham, in a well received presentation at SMB Digital Marketing this week in Chicago, told attendees to constantly adapt to actual conditions in the marketplace, not what the “experts” tell us. The gist of Cunnigham’s comments were that experts are too often conflicted by their limited access to data and doing what …continue reading »
Categories: Conferences, Local Search
Tags: Court Cunningham, SMB Digital Marketing, Yodle
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Trulia’s S1: Strong Focus on Monthly Fees, Mobile Monetization
Trulia, which provides real estate Web and mobile leads, display advertising and real estate-oriented social media services, has followed in the footsteps of its rival, Zillow, and issued an S1 in preparation for going public and raising $75 Million. Zillow’s IPO has been highly successful – it went out last July at $20 and is …continue reading »
Categories: Classifieds, Local Search, Mobile, Money, Social Media, Verticals
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CityGrid Media Announces Jason Finger as New CEO
IAC announced today that SeamlessWeb founder Jason Finger will take over as CEO of its CityGrid Media unit April 12. CItyGrid Media includes the CityGrid ad network and Citysearch, Urbanspoon, Insider Pages and BuzzLabs. Finger was a founder of SeamlessWeb in 1999. The company grew to 21 U.S. cities plus London during his tenure. SeamlessWeb, …continue reading »
Categories: Conferences, Local Search, Sales Channels
Tags: Jason Finger, Jay Herratti
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Google Offers’ Nitin Mangtani Set to Keynote at ILM East
Here’s what we’ve been waiting to announce: Google Offers’ head Nitin Mangtani will join our great list of keynoters at ILM East March 26-28 in Boston. We believe Mangtani’s appearance marks one of the first public debuts of Google Offers, which is playing a major role in Google’s vital local strategy, along with Google Places, …continue reading »
Categories: Conferences, Deals, Google, HyperLocal, Local Search, Mobile, Money, Newspapers, Research, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Social Media, Technology, Verticals, Video
Tags: ILM east
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