ShopLocal Blog

So a few days ago it was announced that ShopLocal.com (our business to consumer – B2C – business unit) was going to enter into the Twitter craziness with a “deal & steal” focused approach to highlighting the best local offers contained within ShopLocal.com.  Today I am pleased to announce that ShopLocal (the business to business [...]

So in today’s WSJ there was a rather fitting article titled, Look at This Article. It’s One of Our Most Popular Top-Ten Lists Abound Online, but Following the Herd Can Make You Wonder About the Wisdom of Crowds By CARL BIALIK In it the author makes the point that when a site publishes a “most [...]

Here is a nice short video demo of the native iPhone Weekly Ad app for those of you out there that are not part of the private beta trial.  Just remember to enter the password of “success” (without the quotes) when prompted to be able to view the video.  Enjoy.

If you are a Twitter user and interested in learning about the best of the best of the best in regards to local deals at the retailers you know and trust (stores like The Home Depot, Best Buy, Target, Kohl’s, etc), then following the new ShopLocal.com Twitter account is a must. Every day, the top [...]

Got product ratings and/or reviews on your retailer.com web site? Want to get additional mileage and reach to this really powerful content? Interested in better equipping potential web – to – store shoppers that are within your SmartCircular site with deeper product knowledge.  If yes, there is now any easy integration available to connect on [...]

Who isn’t on Twitter these days?  That really is the question.  It’s basically every day that yet another trade rag article is published on how a business is using Twitter in an innovative and customer engaging manner. ShopLocal just completed our one-click Twitter integration to allow users of our online circular product called SmartCircular to [...]

A frequent question that the ShopLocal team is asked is one around the user – to – store assignment process.  This involve determining where a user is currently located in the physical world and then calculating the closest retail store location to that user’s best known location. Sounds easy hu?  Well it really is not.  [...]

From the very early days, the ShopLocal team has been big believers in enabling deep linking. For those that maybe are not familiar with this concept, deep linking  is the creation of a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image on another website, instead of that website’s main or home page. Most savvy [...]