by Suzanne Ackley | Apr 18, 2019 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
Local businesses in the professional services vertical are diverse – ranging from legal to design to technology services. This category is highly competitive, with local professionals looking at ways to be discovered in their customers time of need. In...
by Celine Matthiessen | Oct 18, 2018 | BIA, BIA ADVantage, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
All size businesses direct almost two-thirds of their marketing dollars into activating local media ad platforms and the remainder into promotions. For businesses with 500 or more employees, this spending averages $4.48 million for advertising and $2.18 million on...
by Celine Matthiessen | Oct 7, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
Facebook and other social media channels tracked in the Local Commerce Monitor™ (LCM) Wave 20 continue to be the most popular used channels among small businesses. Small businesses’ top three reasons they spend to advertise on social media are 1) ease...
by Celine Matthiessen | Sep 27, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Sales Best Practices, SAM, SMBs
Fall is usually ushered in by shorter days and lots of pumpkin spice lattes. At BIA/Kelsey fall is the time we release data from our annual survey of small businesses, The Local Commerce Monitor™ now in Wave 20. BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor is one...
by Celine Matthiessen | Aug 12, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SMBs
A new study from the Alternative Board looks at the challenges faced by small businesses on social media. Over half of small businesses in the US have a Facebook page and the challenge for small businesses is not social presence but how to connect to consumers through...