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...
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 | Blog, Mobile-Social
Voice has been catapulted in the smartphone era. The telephone is 140-years old but has only been recently reinvented, as it’s bolted to an always-handy search and discovery device. This is the foundation of call commerce, the science of driving, tracking and...
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...
by MacKenzie Lovings | Nov 7, 2016 | Press Releases
New report assesses the television industry by profiling 18 ownership groups and examines the impact of factors driving the industry over the next few years CHANTILLY, Va. (Nov. 7, 2016) – BIA/Kelsey, the leader in local advertising and marketing research,...
by BIA Advisory Group | Nov 4, 2016 | BIA, Blog
Voice has been catapulted in the smartphone era. The telephone is 140-years old but has only been recently reinvented, as it’s bolted to an always-handy search and discovery device. This is the foundation of call commerce, the science of driving, tracking and...