There are many reasons why price comparisons for services aren’t generally done. (i.e. the difficulty of nailing down providers; price changes, the need for custom quotes in many categories). Generally, people should choose service providers on multiple criteria; not just price. But wouldn’t it ...

Palore’s Hanan Lifshitz writes an interesting column at SEL in which he says that the best sales prospects for publishers seeking to attract SMB ad dollars are those local businesses that are either already advertising elsewhere or those who’ve claimed online profiles but aren’t ye...

One of the homespun stories of interactive local media is the rise of HelloMetro, a city guide company that started in 1999 as an entrepreneurial effort in Louisville, KY, and has since grown to include 15 staffers, including five direct salespeople. The company, which has hundreds of Hello(City nam...

Anecdotally, it’s becoming apparent that restaurants are struggling as consumers pull in their spending reins. It seemed to start with the gas price crisis, and certainly is continuing through the economic downturn.  People are simply not going out as much as a higher share of earnings are ap...

San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) (meaning St. Joseph in Spanish) or San José is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. San Jose is located at the southern end of the Bay Area, a region commonly referred to as Silicon Valley. It is the county seat of Sant...

Houston (pronounced /ˈhju�stən/) is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles (1,600 km²). Houston is the seat of Harris ...

Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. Salt Lake City has a population of 180,651 as of 2007.[3] The Salt Lake City metropolitan area spans Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties, and has a total...

Dallas (pronounced /ˈdæləs/) is the third-largest city in the state of Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States.[3] The city, with a population of over 1.2 million, is the main economic center of the 12-county Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area which contains 6.1 million pe...

Emily Steel writes an interesting piece in the WSJ about search ads expanding beyond search engines: Even as No. 1 search engine Google’s share of the online ad market — including search ads — continues to grow, marketers have started shifting ad purchases to other digital media, f...

The following is a guest post from Long Hill Consulting’s Marty Himmelstein:   Local search’s most significant failure is its inability to provide an accurate stratum of content about neighborhood businesses. The necessity for this base layer arises from the defining characteristic of loca...