For Retail, Location Is Everything
04/28/2010 @ 8:30 amBy: Stephen Beck
The fight for domination over location-based marketing is on, with Foursquare, Google, Gowalla, Yelp, and now Facebook pushing aggressively into the space. And if they buy in (and they most definitely should), the real winners are sure to be small-to-medium sized business owners.
This is essentially big business creating opportunity for small business – or – tech companies looking to generate revenue from the incredibly long-tail of businesses that need to market themselves, but typically do very little of it. It’s a win/win all around.
