24 Expert Predictions for Local Marketing in 2016

In addition to an end of the year webinar, we asked the industry what 2016 will hold for the location-based marketing, advertising and commerce space. We received 24 interesting predictions from a variety of experts representing companies such as Constant Contact, Dstillery, GoDaddy, Kenshoo, Placed, Yext and many more. Specifically, we received predictions from:

  • David McIninch, CRO, Acquisio
  • Lynn Tornabene, CMO, AffinityX
  • Raphaël Iscar, Head of Marketing and Communications, Agendize
  • Manish Patel, CEO, Brandify
  • Ellen Brezniak, SVP, Customer Operations, Constant Contact
  • Ted Paff, CEO, Customer Lobby
  • Ravi Sundararaman, Group Product Manager, Marketing, DataSphere
  • Anthony J. Vela Jr., Vice President, Senior Media Consultant, Donald R. Harvey Inc.
  • Lauren Moores (PhD), VP, Strategy, Dstillery
  • Steven Aldrich, Senior Vice President, Business Applications, GoDaddy
  • Anna Chandler, SEO Specialist, Go Local Interactive
  • Christine Bensen, SVP, Media Strategy, iCrossing
  • Nate Young, Director, Business Development, Kenshoo
  • Nick Neels, Head of Local Search Marketing, Location3 Media
  • David Shim, Founder & CEO, Placed
  • Frost Prioleau, CEO, Simpli.fi
  • Manpreet Singh, President, TalkLocal
  • CJ Arseneau, VP of Marketing, Telmetrics
  • Rick Bastian, Strategic Partnerships and Business Development Manager, UpCity
  • Jeff Tomlin, CMO, Vendasta
  • Grace Chan, VP Product, Wanderful Media
  • Sonali Engineer, Manager, Paid Search, We Simplify the Internet (WSI)
  • Ginger E. Jones, Co-Owner, WebPunch
  • Liz Walton, Director of Marketing, Yext

Check out all the predictions below.

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