by BIA Advisory Group | Jan 25, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
73 percent of small businesses use social media for marketing, and Facebook Pages is the leading tool. This is one of many findings that emerged from the latest wave of BIA/Kelsey Local Commerce Monitor (LCM) survey of SMBs. Covered here on a weekly basis, some of the...
by Suzanne Ackley | Jan 21, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
The internet is flooded with how-to’s and “hacks” — quick, cheap ways to get things done. For new small businesses with limited resources, it’s essential to quickly get customers through the purchase funnel to survive. CenturyLink’s...
by Suzanne Ackley | Jan 20, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
SMBs are a diverse group, ranging from one person operations with almost no advertising budget to those with 99 employees and tens of thousands of dollars to spend on advertising. In our ongoing Local Commerce Monitor survey, when we look at the lower budget SMBs,...
by BIA Advisory Group | Jan 18, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SMBs
I’ve always said that the next big horizon’s in local will be retail inventory data. We’ve seen lots of development in this area from players like Retailigence, which obtain reliable data from throughout the retail supply chain. One challenge has...
by Suzanne Ackley | Jan 13, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SMBs
Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that use mobile* media are adopting new marketing and advertising technology more than the average SMBs according to BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor (LCM), Wave 19. Some prime examples include: In store beacons 10% of...
by Suzanne Ackley | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog, Mobile-Social, SMBs
SMBs that use mobile* for advertising and promotion (Mobile SMBs) outspend those that don’t, according to a new report from Local Commerce Monitor, Wave 19, BIA/Kelsey’s survey of small and medium sized businesses. We looked at the average annual spend by Core...
