by Suzanne Ackley | Dec 6, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Conferences, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
80% of small and medium businesses will use at least one social media channel for advertising and promotion in 2017. That was one of the takeaways from the opening session of BIA/Kelsey’s NEXT conference in Boston when analysts from BIA/Kelsey gave their...
by BIA Advisory Group | Dec 5, 2016 | BIA, Blog
Are beacons dead, as Euclid asserts? What does Amazon’s latest move mean for local? and what will pay-per-call add to Goodzer’s SMB marketing suite? These were a few topics on this week’s BIA/Kelsey LIVE, including guest, Goodzer’s Lori Faunce....
by BIA Advisory Group | Dec 1, 2016 | BIA, Blog
It’s been a while since we’ve caught up with MapQuest. The original online mapping and navigation tool is still going strong and is going deeper into local and enterprise utilities. That’s been advanced most recently with its acquisition of Social...
by Suzanne Ackley | Nov 30, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
In the spirit of the holidays and gift lists, BIA/Kelsey offers up our 2nd annual Holiday Wish List for SMBs. So what products and services are small and medium businesses most interested in adding to their marketing activities in 2017? In Wave 20 of our Local...
by BIA Advisory Group | Nov 23, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Local Advertising Forecast, Mobile-Social
BIA/Kelsey is in the process of producing a white paper that drills down on the mobile portion* of its U.S. Local Advertising Forecast. The report will be published in January 2017, and we are currently in post-production stages. To provide a sneak peek, below is its...
by Celine Matthiessen | Nov 21, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
For the third consecutive year, social media is the top marketing channel used by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor™, Wave 20 (LCM20). Among 1,000 SMBs surveyed, 77.6 percent (up from 73.2 last...
