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by Ben Saren on Feb Mon, 2007 in CitySquares, Local Search, Locally Owned, Social Networking

I’m going way out on a limb here, and surely many of you may disagree with me, but I feel pretty strongly about this, as a serious consumer and as a serious business person running a startup that connects consumers with local merchants.
Greg Sterling posted an interesting piece on his blog today titled “Opportunity: Online [...]

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Local Merchants and Adapting to Change

by Ben Saren on Jan Fri, 2007 in CitySquares, Entrepreneurship, Local Search, Locally Owned

A very interesting post by John Kelsey at The Kelsey Group. Very outspoken and candid reality check for small businesses, and I happen to think he’s right on the money here. I’m reminded of a conversation I had a couple weeks ago with a gentleman in New Hampshire, who was referred to me by a [...]

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Local Merchants: Do they get it?

by Ben Saren on Dec Fri, 2006 in CitySquares, Local Search, Locally Owned

That’s really the billion dollar question isn’t it? Local search was recently labeled by a friend of mine as “The Holy Grail of the Internet.” I think that might be stretching it a bit, but for the sake of argument, let’s call it The Promised Land. After all, so many are trying to get [...]

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