Interviews

CitySquares Expanding

I got a note the other day from my good friend Ben Saren about CitySquares expanding its tent pegs.  From the press release: (you can download/read the full release here) “CitySquares.com, the premiere hyper-local search site serving Boston and its metropolitan area, is expanding into all of New England and the greater New York City [...]

SanGabe.biz – Local Business Center

Today we have a nice interview with Dan Vigil of San Gabriel Valley Newsgroup. Q. Tell the readers a little about yourself and your background. A. Most of my experience has been in advertising sales and small business development. I’ve helped start several companies here in the Southern California area over the past 20 years. [...]

New Local Search Service From Brick Marketing

Just got done talking with my good friend Nick Stamoulis over at Brick Marketing about a new service his company has set up–Local Search Engine Marketing Submission Service. I have worked with Nick; he and his company do fine work. In addition to Brick Marketing, Nick runs a number of informative marketing blogs (see below). [...]

Lets Finish Thinking Local

Q. Where do you get your listings from, what database/sources? A. We obtain our listings from several different sources. The bulk of our listings have come from Acxiom, but we do have several other sources from which we obtain listing information. The fact that we are powered by Network Solutions also provides us access to [...]

Think, Think, Think

Today we are happy to have Julia Dalton Manager, Marketplace & Directory Services from ThinkLocal.com Q.Tell us a little about yourself. A. I began my experience in the internet industry working for MonsterCommerce, an Ecommerce company that is now part of Network Solutions. My background is focused mainly in online marketing and product development, particularly [...]

Small Business Stuff (Part 2)

Email marketing can be a very effective means of communicating on-line but one needs to be careful. With all the spam out there, it can be difficult. I recently sat down with the CEO of mobileStorm email and mobile marketing, Jared Reitzin and picked his brain. Q. Tell us a little about your site and [...]

I dream of Genie..Local

Today I have the privilege of speaking with John A.Manning, SVP Business Development of GenieKnows. Q. Can you tell us a little about yourself? A. My background is in Clinical Therapy and Educational Psychology which I practiced as a private practioner until 2004.I am one of the founding partners of Genieknows.com which we started in [...]