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  • By Neal Polachek, On 7th January 2013

When it comes to being prepared for the coming wave of mobile engagement SMBs are not alone. We've offered up numerous data points on this blog citing data from SMB DigitalScape - the trending and...

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  • By Neal Polachek, On 31st December 2012

vSplash head of sales Anthony Bratti pointed me to a very interesting article titled "The Future of Sales Technology". The author, Geoffrey James writes often about the impact of technology on...

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  • By Neal Polachek, On 24th December 2012

For the next couple of weeks we'll be seeing many interesting predictions for 2013. Some we'll just scan, some we'll read and tweet, some we'll just stare at and wonder what the author was thinking....

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  • By Neal Polachek, On 20th November 2012

The next 35 days are critical for retail businesses, large and small. By all accounts, mobile and online commerce will be on the rise again this holiday shopping season. But are small businesses positioned to...

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  • By Neal Polachek, On 28th September 2012

For nearly a year, we've been demonstrating via the SMB DigitalScape data that nearly all SMB sites we've analyzed are not optimized for the mobile experience. A new blog post from Greg Sterling points to...

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  • By Neal Polachek, On 29th August 2012

Greg Sterling's recent post focused on Local.com's effort to simplify the value proposition for SMBs. With good reason, Local.com and others selling into the local SMB market are pursuing...

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  • By Neal Polachek, On 29th August 2012

Earlier this year there was an interesting article about how impatient the web consumer can really be. The article cited a 2009 report from Forrester which found that "online shoppers expected pages...

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  • By Neal Polachek, On 23rd August 2012

Only by hiding under a rock could anyone who is in the local search space not be bombarded by data about the inevitable and constant march town ultimate smartphone ubiquity. Some of those news items...

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  • By Neal Polachek, On 23rd August 2012

One of the hallmark conferences that has been a must attend event for anyone in the local search eco-system was Kelsey's DMS fall conference. This year's conference co-chairs Charles Laughlin and Peter Krasilovsky have dropped...

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  • By Neal Polachek, On 26th July 2012

The vSplash team has been busy evolving and extending the parameters of it's powerful proprietary web presence and performance analytical tool BuzzBoard. The next release of data should include analysis from over 2 million SMB...

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