A key take away from the BIA Kelsey 2011 Interactive Local Media conference is the value of deal aggregators. Once a group deal program is launched aggregators can help increase revenues. Here is a list of top aggregators for generating traffic. more

Most current online sales materials are, let's face it, terrible. This is primarily because local media's audience research itself is limited or national. But this is about to change. Post-Gazette.com is testing a new method of researching its site visitors that is free, from a partner called Civic Science. Here is how it works and early results. more

The healthcare industry is one of the healthiest local advertising categories. Get the biggest share by looking at best practices around the country. Find out what hospital marketers want, and to increase dollars from the cosmetic service industry. more

Setting up a Group Deal program? Find out what it will take, revenues to expect per deal, which local businesses to approach, deal parameters, how to compete with Groupon and Living Social in your market and choosing a vendor and a worksheet on the Group Deal Business model. more

Train the sales team to sell around text-marketing campaigns by looking for great co-promotions that add traditional internet and media. SMS campaigns for small businesses rely on massive amounts of data collection - they need help from media. Here are seven ways to turn this rapidly growing trend into profitable relationships. more

As companies plan five year models, user-generated revenues should be part of the mix. AllMenus.com (owned by Dot Menus, Inc.) incorporates a field-tested online ordering services for restaurant and has recently signed up with two major dailies. Here's how the model works and early results. more

In the past year, Valpak.com, owned by Cox Enterprises in Atlanta, has entered the mobile coupon market in force. A pop-up window collects SMS opt-ins from every digital visitor. more

Inn 2010, Freedom Interactive was chosen by Borrell & Associates as one of the "best of the best" newspaper adoptions of mobile technology. But this was not always the case. Doug Bennett, president of Freedom Interactive, says that two years ago Freedom was "in the back of the pack" of newspapers developing digital and mobile products. The sharp decline in revenues in 2008 motivated the company to be more aggressive. This case study outlines their plan and results so far. more

Borrell executives Gordon Borrell, Peter Conti and Colby Atwood ended the 2010 Local Mobile Advertising Conference last week with a slightly fiery “Five things to do next” for those ready to tackle winning the mobile space. We've reprinted their suggestions with permission here. more

When Harvard academic Clark Gilbert helped create the Newspaper Next project, making recommendations on how newspapers should deal with disruptive change, not many media companies took his advice. But in 2009, he left Harvard to take a job as CEO of Deseret Media and put his theories to work. Since then KSL Mobile has become the fourth largest media site in the state and digital revenues have increased 60% year over year. Here's a break down of his strategy. more