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Am I Measuring the Right Stuff?

Business is like baseball, it is full of statistics. In baseball, batting averages and win-loss records are vital, while other numbers — like...

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IdealSpot Selected as a Red Herring Top 100 North America Winner

San Diego, CA — Red Herring today announced its Top 100 North America award winners in recognition of the leading private companies from the...

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Would you lose a customer over 7 cents?

There are well over a billion social media users worldwide. Of course, you don’t expect billions of people to walk into your store, but the...

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The ATX Restaurant 100

According to the 2015 Kauffman Index report, Austin,TX has unseated perennial favorites in the Bay Area to be named the best city in America...

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Two Kinds of Customers and the Curse of…

Out of the hundreds of customers we have seen since we launched, we can typically bucket most of them into two groups (these are true stories...

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The Unspoken Secrets to Having Your Restaurant Dishes Shared Online

If you want to get people talking about your dishes, do not take a page from McDonalds. They took quite a backlash last year for their...

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Is Wanting Your Customers’ Attention Weird?

Living in Austin, we are used to hearing the expression “Keep Austin Weird.” The origin of the motto was to create demand for local businesses...

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Radio Shack’s Empty Stores Are Risky Business For Other Retailers

Many retailers – from Sprint and GameStop to TruFoods – are hoping to find success in the shuttered RadioShack locations. While these vacant...

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How IdealSpot Disrupted the Retail Site Location Service Industry

Sam’s business was on a roll. He saw the trajectory of his growth and it charted solidly up and to the right. As a co-owner of an upscale fast...

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