Ever hear of cash mobs? In a cash mob, a local store or restaurant is designated by the community as the recipient of a one day promotion where customers spend at least $20, using Twitter and other local media to broadcast the event. Cash mobs can also promote arts events, like youth symphonies, and causes [...]
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Street Fight is the most authoritative information and analysis about the innovation taking place in local digital advertising and tech. In just six weeks, you can participate directly in the conversation around this rapidly changing sector at Street Fight Summit West, an intensive one-day event taking place on June 5th at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco. Specifically, [...]
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Who we accept to the Breaking News Retweet Program
First, do you know about our Retweet Program? We can automatically retweet your tweets through our Breaking News Twitter feeds. If you have applied to the program and are accepted, you should have received the following email: Hi______, We look forward to helping you get your message across through the Breaking News Network. We have “authorized” [...]
How to become a first time online entrepreneur
The biggest occupational trend in the restructuring of the economy has been the newly minted entrepreneur. The media regales us with stories about the new startup incubators like Y Combinator, and the success stories of their progeny. All roads to developing a new business point to leveraging the Internet with some sort of social, commercial [...]
The Breaking News Network is Community Service Media working for You
Here are the ways the Breaking News Network serve our communities: 1) We never push ad sales to our local business communities. We want local businesses to use social media to converse with the community and create a local presence. And doing this is far more effective marketing than a banner ad! 2) We support [...]
Hyperlocal Marketing White Paper for Local Merchants
We think our friends at hyperlocal business authority Street Fight have done a great job compiling best practices in hyperlocal marketing with this report. –Pat Kitano If you’re strained on a budget but have your eye on growing your customer base, what’s a local merchant to do? In “The Local Merchant” white paper, we talked to dozens [...]
Founderdating.com – Meet your new business partner. App deadline February 20
Founderdating.com is a service founded by Jessica Alter and Saar Gur to make business matches in the new entrepreneurial society. They are setting up meetups in San Francisco, New York and Seattle during the month of March. Applications are due in about two weeks by February 20, and we’re using the Breaking News Network to [...]
Why we want to retweet your tweets and get your message out
If you arrived here from one of our Breaking News Twitter links, welcome! The Breaking News Network is a national hyperlocal network in over 300 cities dedicated to community service and social media sourced news. Each city in our network is managed by locals. If you’re a business, civic group, arts organization or good cause, [...]
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