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2011 was a busy year for the Closely product team, and we’ve had a chance to take feedback from our early partners and transform it into useful new features and improvements to the application. Here are some highlights we’ve introduced to make Closely even better in 2012: Agency Support Multiple Businesses: Create and manage profiles [...]
At the BIA Kelsey Group’s Deals 3D conference, we are previewing a key new component of our Social Commerce platform, centered on converting commerce transaction activities into simple and powerful social promotion programs.
We gave a talk yesterday (copied below) at Where 2.0, one of our favorite events every year. It’s the O’Reilly gathering of the smartest geeks and business visionaries of the location technology world. Our topic was “Adapting Daily Deals to Live LBS.” In some respects this title felt a little backwards, in other ways it’s [...]
We’re very excited to introduce you to Social Select. Our new product tackles some of the core problems with daily deals and social marketing – it’s also the culmination of months of development on our Live Marketing platform, driven by several iterations with businesses and agency partners. To learn more about the service, please go [...]
It was interesting to read TechCrunch’s breaking discovery of the new YP industry initiative by Yext, which it characterizes as the local media competitors to Google organizing an “Anti-Google Alliance” product, a description repeated by the WSJ. TC describes Yext Tags as a product that will “let small businesses highlight their names with a little [...]
Today we go live with a new website, GroupGro, that is designed an an independent resource site for small businesses to learn about Daily Deal marketing. As we introduce on the site, Small business most often goes into a Daily Deal promotion equipped with only vendor-supplied information. GroupGro is here to gather up the collective [...]
One of the critical goals we’ve started with at Closely is to drive maximum exposure for every live offer published by a small business. At the proverbial end of the day, every SMB wants to maximize their local reach. Our aim is to take the complexity and friction out of this – creating a rich [...]
It’s been an exciting day for the team at Closely, Inc. As you may know, today we opened up to the world and launched our first product, Closely for Business. We did this at the DEMO Spring Conference. For those not familiar with DEMO, it’s been the premier “launch pad” for emerging technology businesses for [...]