Smartphones, the most powerful data-collection tools ever created, don’t just tell brands what consumers want but where consumers are. Sometimes they even tell brands what consumers are doing at different times of the day....
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Online Media Continues to Dominate Local Search
October 7, 2010
From eM+C Weekly
Seventy percent of respondents to a recent survey indicated that search engines, online Yellow Pages
and social networks are their primary sources of local business information, according to
the Local Search Usage Study, conducted by comScore
on behalf of 15miles.com, the local, mobile and social marketing division of TMP Directional Marketing
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Bazaarvoice SocialConnect Integrates Social Networks
June 24, 2010
From eM+C Weekly
Company: Bazaarvoice, a provider of hosted social commerce applications
Product/Service: The SocialConnect Suite is a toolbox for integrating specific social channels like Facebook and Twitter into a broader social marketing strategy
What It Does: Allows marketers to integrate social content and interaction from brand sites to social networks and collect consumer-generated reviews and stories directly on Facebook that can be pulled back to the brand site