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How Online Reputation Management Can Help Local Brands

Before the widespread adoption of the internet and effect of globalization, commerce was a predominantly local affair. Local consumers would shop at local merchants after seeing advertising in local media. Today, consumers in the smallest towns of developed countries can shop dozens of local, national, and global companies with the click of a mouse. While...
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Is Focusing Only on Local Market a Smart…

Many would argue that in the digital world there is no local market anymore. With every business with a website becoming an international company there are still plenty of businesses that specify their service to a single, local market, and they intend to keep it that way. The reason for this is simple – whenever...
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Five Holiday Business Ideas

The holidays are a busy time for everyone, and an even bigger opportunity for small businesses to add to their profits as well as their customer base. Incentives to shop at your store, getting people through the door, letting people know what your store has to offer, and having a staff who know what they...
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3 Ways To Make Coworking Space Work For…

For many entrepreneurs and small business owners, making the leap from home office to full-fledge office space feels expensive and overwhelming. It’s a big step to go from an at-home start-up to a more established business with rent, utilities, and multiple employees coming and leaving every day. Now though, in cities around the world, coworking...

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From Search Engines to LLMs: How internet is changing and what it means for you

Artificial Intelligence is steadily replacing the traditional search engine as the primary gateway to the internet. For nearly two decades, the internet experience revolved around keywords, links, and pages of ranked results. Users had to search, compare, filter, verify, and finally decide. AI changes that equation entirely. Instead of merely showing information, modern Large Language...
A new trend in the AI assisted ecommerce shopping is taking over retail

Retails push for “AI Shopping”– How Carrefour could be reshaping customer experience

The quiet rollout of AI-powered retail experiences by companies like Carrefour signals something much bigger than a simple tech experiment. While it hasn’t generated the kind of buzz typically associated with AI breakthroughs, its implications could reshape how consumers discover, evaluate, and ultimately purchase products. Carrefour’s Customer Engagement Through AI Carrefour has begun integrating conversational...
The Measurement Trap – Why Anthropic’s AI Labor Report Misses the Human Core

The Measurement Trap – Why Anthropic’s AI Labor Report Misses the Human Core

Critical Analysis: Anthropic’s “Labor Market Impacts of AI” – Beyond the Observed Exposure The recent research published by Anthropic, “Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence,” introduces a sophisticated metric: Observed Exposure. By moving past theoretical capabilities to track actual Claude usage data, Anthropic provides a grounded view of how AI...
The Low-Trust Economy: Branding in an Age of Moral Reckoning

The Low-Trust Economy: Branding in an Age of Moral Reckoning

New study published by Pew Research reveal ‘Morality’ plays which may have major impact on brand marketing in cultural context. The recent Pew Research Center study, “In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely to View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad,” has sent shockwaves through the marketing and social science communities. This survey was done in 2025...

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Top 10 Local Ice-Cream Brands In US

Hot Licks Homemade Ice-Cream (Alaska)  Hot Licks Homemade Ice Cream opened in 1986, and it was first ice cream and café shop. Soon afterwards the…

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10 Books On Branding And Social Selling That You Must Have On Your Kindle Summer Reading List

When it comes to picking a book for reading, we often encounter an endless list of similar sounding titles on the same topic. However, not…

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5 Most Interesting Local Dairy Brands Across The World

Milkman doing the rounds every morning is a part of culture everywhere. What would we do without milk? Well, that is not intended to offend…

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5 Local Fast Food Franchises In US That Are Doing Things Differently

Freshii – Freshii (Originally called Lettuce Eatery) is a Canadian fast food franchise and was founded in 2005 by Matthew Corrin. They serve meals which are…

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5 Airline Brands Worth Learning From + 1 That Went Down

In modern age of transportation, air travel is a highly sought after service and the airline brands are the top dogs of business. Quite naturally…

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10 Local Candy Brands Across The World That We Think Are Awesome

Everyone loves candies no matter where they live or how old they are. Aside from certain health conditions that may prohibit you from having candies,…

10 Local Brands Nominated by Our Readers

10 Local Brands Nominated by Our Readers

Its been 7 years since The Local Brand was launched and we started writing about small businesses and local brands which deserve to be brought…

10 strongest FMCG local brands from India

10 strongest FMCG local brands from India

In a country with over 1.3 billion people, it’s no surprise that the FMCG industry in India is booming. According to a report by Nielsen,…

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The story of bitter rivalry between New York’s iconic ice-cream brands and similar cases

Mister Softee is one of the most iconic ice cream brands in the United States, with its distinctive blue and white color scheme, cursive lettering,…

SMBs should leverage these AI powered applications

SMBs should leverage these AI powered applications

Small and medium businesses often can’t afford the kind of creative agencies which big companies hire to make their products and services look slick. This…