by BIA Advisory Group | Sep 9, 2016 | Blog, Mobile-Social
In the age of tech rumors and connectivity, Apple’s announcements this week were mostly an expected array of feature updates. A victim of its own success (good problem to have), it’s getting harder and harder for Apple to live up to its own slugging...
by BIA Advisory Group | Sep 8, 2016 | Blog, Mobile-Social
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. Beyond...
by Celine Matthiessen | Sep 8, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
Mobile coupon usage by consumers is on the rise and is proving to drive consumers to buy more and try new technologies, according to eMarketer. eMarketer reports that by the end of 2016 104 million adults in the U.S. will be mobile coupon users. According to a...
by BIA Advisory Group | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, Conferences, SMBs
Your product pitch may sound great to colleagues, partners, investors and others who speak the language of local commerce. But how well does it resonate with a real life SMBs? We posed this challenge to a handful of local startups at BIA/Kelsey ENGAGE, including...
by Celine Matthiessen | Sep 1, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
A recent study from Campaign Monitor and Market Cube on small and mid-size businesses use for marketing tools found that an all-in-one marketing cloud solution is not the answer. Small and mid-size businesses use a variety of advertising and marketing tools and,...
by BIA Advisory Group | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, Mobile-Social, SMBs
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. Where Do...
by BIA Advisory Group | Aug 23, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Conferences
Yellow Pages Limited CEO Julien Billot has transformed Canada’s leading directory publisher into a digital media and marketing powerhouse. He has it on a path to restoring customer and revenue growth. That’s all a lot harder than it sounds. Key to YP...
by BIA Advisory Group | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog, SMBs
Small and large business are learning an important lession: Growing sales typically evolve out of deep audience engagement. Finding more audiences similar to the customers who already convert is easier than converting new disengaged audiences. The strategy, known as...
by BIA Advisory Group | Aug 19, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Local Advertising Forecast, Mobile-Social, Newspapers, SMBs
This is the latest in BIA/Kelsey’s Analyst Workshop series. It delivers analyst insights through video renditions of recent presentations. Embedded video clips contains slides with analyst voiceover. _______ Local ad revenues will hit $146.3 billion this year,...
by Suzanne Ackley | Aug 18, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
Franchisees are more likely to use, and spend for, the newest media, platforms and technology, according to BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Franchisees were more likely to use newer mobile platforms, such...
