by Celine Matthiessen | May 12, 2017 | Blog, Conferences, SMBs
Nearly all of small businesses use social media (pages, ads, native, video, etc.) to advertise, whether free or paid solutions. And according to our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses (Q3/2016) they are investing in their social media...
by Celine Matthiessen | May 8, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Conferences, SMBs
At our upcoming Local Impact Los Angeles Conference, we will kick off the day with a major key trend in local: social advertising. While Facebook leads in adoption by small businesses — 77.6% of small businesses have a Facebook page, that’s only the...
by Suzanne Ackley | Apr 21, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
Last year Facebook introduced chatbots to its Messenger app, but businesses have reportedly been slow to adopt the technology. “Chatbots were always a means to an end, not an end,” said Stan Chudnovsky, head of product at Messenger. “Our goal was...
by Suzanne Ackley | Apr 20, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SMBs
This week Snapchat announced it was rolling out a new feature on its platform called World Lenses. World Lenses is basically a filter, but live Augmented Reality (AR). With World Lenses, anyone with a smartphone camera can add 3D elements to any scene they want to...
by Celine Matthiessen | Mar 8, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
Small businesses are moving beyond having a presence on social media, especially on Facebook. For three years in a row Facebook pages have surpassed websites as the most popular used ad channel for small businesses. SMBs are not just invested in a presence on...
