by Suzanne Ackley | Apr 26, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Broadcast, Mobile-Social, Newspapers, Radio, SAM, SMBs
Core small businesses, those who spend less than $25,000 annually on advertising and promotion, had an average advertising budget of $5,504 in 2016, according to our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses (Q3/2016). LCM dives into their spending,...
by Suzanne Ackley | Mar 22, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
Snapchat is one of the most popular apps for consumers (particularly millennials), according to a new comScore report , but how popular is it with small businesses? Snapchat, a recent addition to our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses...
by Suzanne Ackley | Feb 27, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
The higher spending SMBs, which we call Plus Spenders*, use an average of 20.8 different media channels for advertising and promotion, according to Wave 20 (Q3/2016) of our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small and medium businesses. But while the number of...
by Suzanne Ackley | Feb 22, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
Email marketing is a low cost and target rich way for small businesses to market and communicate with current and potential customers without breaking their small advertising budgets. According to our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses,...
by Suzanne Ackley | Feb 8, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
The rise in mobile viewing of television and video is also impacting how small businesses advertise. Small businesses use video not on one but on multiple channels. Websites are the most popular place for videos. In fact, 1 in 4 small businesses say they have a video...