Is your agency a partner or a vendor to its clients?

Written by Tom | July 28th, 2010 |

Cory Treffelitti wrote a great blog post today on MediaPost.com titled “What Does It Mean To Be a True Partner?” This article should resonate strongly with any and all agencies that care about their business and care about their clients. Location3 has always tried to interact with and establish all of our client and partner agencies in this way but Cory has put it into words quite nicely.

~Tom

Google is bringing local search to your car

Written by Tom | June 9th, 2010 |

Image from zedomax.com

Image from zedomax.com

As Google continues to intertwine itself deeper into our lives it appears that they will also be expanding upon their integration of Google Maps into new 2010 model cars. Google maps are currently being utilized for Onstar users, Droid users, iPhone users, and the major auto manufacturers GM, Ford, Chevy and some Audi’s.

~Tom

Google’s New Patent app Highlights the Importance of Local Search

Written by Tom | May 24th, 2007 |

Google patent app shows extensive Google plans for mobile search by ZDNet’s Russell Shaw — A Google Patent application newly published on the United States Patent & Trademark Office website this morning appears to furnish extensive details on Google’s plans for enhanced local searches via mobile devices. Fittingly enough, the Patent app is entitled, Local Search and Mapping for Mobile Devices. The Abstract gives us a sneak peek, referring to: A computer-implemented method [...]

~Tom

Spyfu.com goes live

Written by Tom | May 7th, 2007 |

Spyfu.com has gone from its beta stage to a subscription basis. Though we have not found the data to be extremely accurate concerning adspend estimates, we certainly do appreciate the efforts. I can’t say I’ve used the spyfu tools to make an assessment of sem strategies for screening of prospective clients (and likely will not do so until the data validity improves) but I certainly will take a peek at the stated spyfu numbers none the less. Here is a bit of what they are offering with your paid subscription:

~Tom