Many business models have developed with these findings in mind including NearbyNow, Yokel, ShopLocal, and StepUp Commerce. ShopLocal deals with big box retailers; NearbyNow with shopping center retailers; and StepUp with small businesses.
StepUp Commerce meanwhile continues to attract an impressive amount of small business advertisers that wish to put their product and inventory information online. StepUp's acquisition by Intuit in September will position it to distribute this...
NearbyNow and StepUp (acquired by Intuit) are putting local business inventory online. AskTheLocal is a shopping search engine with a subtle difference; rather than find websites that offer particular products it matches the search query with a...
StepUp has been doing for local retailers what local SEM/SEO firms like LocalLaunch, WebVisible and ReachLocal are doing (with partners) for local service businesses – helping them establish a web presence and pushing their listings and content...
And as of last night, Google has integrated enhanced product data and brought it into Maps through a partnership with StepUp.com, which is aggregating local retailers for online distribution. ClickZ local columnist Phil Stelter wrote a piece this...
StepUp.com http://www.stepup.com StepUp.com allows you to search for a product and then have the option of buying the product online or from a physical store in your vicinity. For merchants, StepUp.com offers a free Member Store Program that lets...