by Rick Ducey | Nov 18, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Broadcast
“Industry consolidation has mitigated local market analysis and study,” BIA/Kelsey’s executive-in-residence Maribeth Papuga argued in yesterday’s webinar “New Localism: Why Local Markets Are Best Positioned for Growth.” Papuga, a...
by BIA Advisory Group | Nov 18, 2016 | BIA, Blog
What do Snapchat’s IPO and partnership with Foursquare mean? What will xAd do with WeatherBug, and what role will chatbots play in local commerce? These were a few topics on this week’s BIA/Kelsey LIVE. Produced by Mitch Ratcliffe and featuring a rotating...
by BIA Advisory Group | Nov 17, 2016 | BIA, Blog
Tracking people and things, from products to assets necessary to customizing, delivering and supporting great local customer experience will become a critical competence for SMBs and the enterprise over the next five years. Without an underlying logistics system,...
by Celine Matthiessen | Nov 17, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
American Express is in its sixth year of supporting small businesses and the local economy with Small Business Saturday. The National Federation of Independent Businesses and American Express released the fourth-annual Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights...
by BIA Advisory Group | Nov 10, 2016 | BIA, Blog
BIA/Kelsey Bytes are excerpts from research reports. This is the latest installment from the recently launched report, Call Commerce: A $1 Trillion Economic Engine. It picks up where last week’s post left off. The report can be downloaded for free here, and...
by Suzanne Ackley | Nov 9, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
According to data from Wave 20 (Q3/2016) of BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor™ annual survey of small and medium businesses (SMBs), about 15% of the 1,000 SMBs surveyed reported using funds from a co-op program, down slightly from 18% in Wave 19...
