January 14, 2008, 12:34 pm
Local marketing: Where to start
What techniques do you use to market locally? Have you had a bad experience with a marketing agency? Talk back here.
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From Greg, New York City Local.com (LOCM) is the future, they are a small CA based partner with Yahoo and Google.They own local search and the mobile 411 patents= where targeted search gets on cell phones.
I bet they become a household name in the next 6 months.
Posted By Greg, New York City : January 15, 2008 9:27 am
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