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2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyLOCM neue Groupon zum Schnäppchenpreis

 
  
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Ticker: LOCM
Preis: $4.50
webseite: http://www.local.com
webseite: http://www.Spreebird.com "groupon" buying site has just launched, no PR yet, it's 100% own by Local.com
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2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeybarchart stuft aktuell LOCM als "BUY" ein

 
  
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04.04.11 19:09

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyTraderscreener

 
  
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04.04.11 19:10
Traderscreener sieht sogar ein " Strong Buy "
http://www.traderscreener.com/stocks/nasdaq-LOCM.aspx  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyAbout Us

 
  
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04.04.11 22:41
About Us

http://www.spreebird.com/about

Spreebird is a new daily deals service from Local.com Corp. Local.com operates one of the most widely used local search sites on the web, connecting over 20 million local consumers and local businesses every month.


All the best deals in one place
Are you suffering from deal overload – too many daily deal emails clogging your inbox? Spreebird collects together all the best local deals from the leading daily deal providers and makes it incredibly easy for you to browse and buy your deals in one place. As we expand our service we'll add hundreds of new deals daily – so there'll always be a great selection of fresh daily deals waiting just for you!


Deals tailored to your personal tastes and interests
When was the last time you saw an interesting deal? Our mission is to give you the best personalized deal discovery experience on the web. Whoever you are, wherever you live, work, and play, our goal is to find and present awesome deals that are tailored to your unique tastes and interests.


Deals available whenever and wherever you need them
Stay tuned for our iPhone and Android apps, coming soon.  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyGroupon-type

 
  
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04.04.11 23:15
Local.com Corp. (NASDAQ: LOCM) shares just started spiking, gaining 11 cents to $4.50, a gain of 2.5% on 1.8 million shares.

The company announced on Friday it would be launching a "Groupon-type" business unit, which sent shares soaring in after-hours trading.

Local.com Corporation provides local search services on the Internet. It operates Local.com, a local business directory site that provides information on approximately 14 million local businesses

http://www.benzinga.com/tech/11/04/976081/local-com-up-almost-3-locm  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyLocal.com CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Results - Earnings

 
  
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05.04.11 00:46
Local.com Corporation (LOCM) Q4 2010 Earnings Call Transcript February 07, 2011 4:30 pm ET

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the fourth quarter and full year 2010 Local.com Corporation Earnings Conference Call. My name is Eric, and I'll be your operator for today. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. (Operator instructions) As a reminder this conference is being recorded for replay purposes.

I'd now like to turn the conference over to Mr. David Castle [ph], Associate Vice President. You may proceed.

David Castle

Thank you and good afternoon. It is my pleasure to welcome you to Local.com's fourth quarter and full year 2010 financial results conference call. With me today, are Local.com's Chairman and CEO, Heath Clarke; President and Chief Operating Officer, Bruce Crair; and our Chief Financial Officer, Ken Cragun.

The executive team will discuss our financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2010 and our outlook for the first quarter and full year fiscal year of 2011. At the conclusion of their prepared remarks, we will open the lines for questions. I would like to bring to everyone's attention that today's comments include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21-A of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results and events to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties will be outlined at the end of the conference call and are also detailed in Local.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Forward-looking statements made today during today's call are only made as of the date of this conference call, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

We use non-GAAP financial measures in evaluating our financial performance, specifically the non-GAAP financial measure of adjusted net income or loss.

Please refer to the press release we issued today for how we define adjusted net income or loss and the reasons for using that non-GAAP measure, as well as a detailed review of our fourth quarter and full year 2010 results, including the corresponding GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures.

To comply with SEC's guidance on fair and open disclosure, we have made this conference call publicly available via audio web cast through the Investor Relations sections of our website, and a replay of the conference call will be available for 90 days after the call. Today's call features shortened prepared remarks in order to spend more time on the questions-and-answers segment of the call.

I'd now like to turn the call over to our CEO, Heath Clarke.

Heath Clarke

Thanks, David. I would like to start by congratulating Ken on his promotion to our chief financial officer. While the Yahoo/Bing integration reduced the monetization of our site and network during the fourth quarter, our visibility increased considerably over the past month, and we now believe this change in monetization was primarily a one-time reset rather than a continual decline.

Our first quarter guidance represents a new normal for the company, and while disappointing to step back this far, we are focused on growing from this point forward. We anticipate that our fourth quarter 2011 revenues will be 50% higher than our first quarter 2011 guidance with overall 2011 revenue forecast to be about $85 million. While we expect Bing to fine-tune its algorithms, we believe the impact will be within our normal daily variation. Despite the setback in monetization, we believe the Yahoo/Bing integration will ultimately yield increased monetization over time.

Yahoo’s CEO indicated on their most recent earnings call that they expect RPCs [ph] during the second half of 2011, and we believe this to be a reasonable assessment. To be conservative, we haven’t factored in any RPC increase into our current guidance, so we view this as potential upside for the year.

While Yahoo has historically been 50% of our revenue, in Q4 this dropped to 36% of revenue. Local.com continues to differentiate its product portfolio, which is expected to further diversify our revenue. To diversify our revenues, we need to sell more online ad products and services to small businesses. We believe one of the biggest issues for local online advertising is the online and off-line gap.

For example, a small business that advertises online each month irrespective of the ad type still has difficulty figuring out how many customers walk into the store because of the online ad spend. Group or social buying solved this problem completely because customers must come into the store to redeem their online purchase. This shows the small business just how powerful, immediate and effective online advertising can be, and our plan is to sell that additional online ad products and services from our platform.

Our recent acquisition of the iTwango technology platform represents our entrance into the rapidly growing group buying space. Importantly, group buying takes place entirely outside the current search ecosystem, which is clearly dominated by the major search engines. This means that group buying as an industry is not reliant on any search engine for success. This is a powerful new development in local online advertising and is one reason, why we’re entering this space.

We already have significant assets to deploy in this exciting high-growth market, including our reach of over 20 million consumers each month, plus our existing network of over 1000 regional media sites. We expect to sell our first social buying ads in the second quarter. While we plan considerable organic growth by our existing businesses and social buying, we continued to be acquisitive and intent to purchase additional businesses with synergistic products and technologies to diversify our revenue, expand and diversify our product portfolio and scale our business.

Our long-term goal is to build a dependable local media business, which provides our shareholders will premium multiples. Let us dig into more detail, Owned & Operated revenue is up 6% year-over-year and represented half of our fourth-quarter revenue. Traffic was up 24% over the year ago period, site monetization was down about 22% and organic traffic was flat with the year ago period.

Our biggest priority for Owned & Operated is to grow organic traffic. Although fourth-quarter organic traffic was flat, we are now seeing traffic consistently increase. We intend to add content and features to our flagship property in order to drive further organic traffic growth.

Moving now to the Network, fourth quarter Network revenue was $6.2 million, up 22% from the year ago period, and represents about 31% of total Q4 revenue. Our non-domain network is comprised of our regional media and external partners, and this exceeds 1000 sites today, up from about 750 sites a year ago. Our domain network is comprised of third-party local websites that are hosted and managed on our OCTANE platform, and today numbers over 80,000 third-party sites. This is a new market segment for us that we entered mid-2010.

We continue to add new sites to our network business, and plan to keep our domain network sites relatively flat until our channel sales come online.

Moving now to sales and ad services for the fourth quarter, SAS revenue was $3.9 million about double the year ago period. SAS was 19% of revenue and we ended Q4 with over 45,000 subscription customers. As previously disclosed, with the focus on the sale of our high margin OCTANE products, we expect our subscriber numbers and revenue to decrease at a predictable rate during the first and second quarter. Revenue from this division is expected to increase during the second half of 2011 as our channel sales come online.

As a brief reminder, we intend to halt sale of our OCTANE products by our channel partners, so revenues aren’t expected to increase until those channel partners come online and are actually selling our products. We recently announced 5 channel partners that were certainly making progress towards the establishment of our channel sales infrastructure. Local.com has delivered strong organic growth over the past five years and despite the monetization reset, we expect to deliver great organic growth this year.

We have entered 2011 with the most comprehensive technology and product portfolio in our history, and we believe that we have the relationships and market position required to fully exploit those assets. Bruce will now comment on operations and OCTANE progress.

Bruce Crair

Thanks, Heath. As Heath mentioned, last quarter we closed additional channel sales partners and built infrastructure to support them, added content to our O&O sites to maximize organic traffic and work hard to adjust the new normal of lower monetization as a consequence of the Yahoo/Bing integration.

We closed five new channel sales partners for our OCTANE product this quarter. These partners have a variety of roles within local search advertising. Some generate leads for various sectors of the service industry, others are agencies that specialize in SCM and SCO for small businesses, and one focuses on providing online infrastructure and products for smaller directories to provide to their customers.

We have established a support infrastructure for these channels helping them to sell and support these products to their customers. We expect they will begin selling our products during the first quarter. We also sold a private domain network to an interactive agency during the quarter. We provided the geo-category domain for this customer, including hosting and the development of custom content. We believe this further validates our geo-category base domain strategy, and we look forward to continued progress in this regard.

With the higher price point and longer average life of OCTANE products, coupled with the addition of new sales channels, we believe that OCTANE should contribute materially to our second half results.

On the Local.com site, we focused on improving the user experience, including adding custom articles, improving the navigation and adding more content to our new coupons category. After relaunching the Local.com site last quarter, we initially saw a drop-off in organic visitors, but are now seeing our organic pick back up and expect incremental growth as we add more content and categories. And finally, we have adjusted to the new normal revenues based on the Yahoo/Bing integration.

As Heath mentioned, we expect our overall revenue and margin to continue to climb this year as we diversify our revenues via new products and services, and through the expansion of new sales channels.

Now I would like to turn this over to Ken to discuss our financial results.

Ken Cragun

Thank you, Bruce, and thanks to everyone who has joined us for our Q4 2010 earnings call. In Q4, we achieved revenue of $20 million and adjusted net income of $3.2 million, or $0.19 per diluted share. For the year we achieved 84 million in revenue, up 49% from 56 million in revenue last year.

Cost of revenue in Q4 was $11.8 million or 59% of revenue, up from 48% of revenue in Q3, primarily due to lower monetization from the Yahoo/Bing integration. Sales and marketing expense in Q4 was $3.3 million, down 18% from Q3. General and administrative expense in Q4 was $1.9 million, which was down about $800,000 from Q3, primarily due to lower salary and bonus expense.

Research and development costs in Q4 were $1.4 million or 7% of revenue, slightly down from $1.5 million or 6.7% in Q3. Amortization expense decreased in Q4 to $1.5 million from $1.6 million in the prior quarter. During Q4, we recorded a $1 million or $0.06 per diluted share warrant valuation expense. The revaluation of the warrant liability is based on our Black-Scholes model that takes into account among other things the trading price of our common stock.

During Q4 we had a GAAP net loss of $891,000 or $0.05 per diluted share, with 16.6 million diluted shares outstanding. This compares to Q3 GAAP net income of $3.7 million or $0.22 per diluted share with 17.2 million diluted shares outstanding.

As for cash and liquidity, during Q4, we generated approximately $5.4 million of cash from operations. We made an additional payment of $2 million relating to the OCTANE360 acquisition. $1.3 million of cash was used for capital expenditures, including investments in our technology infrastructure and capitalized website development costs. We also paid $1 million related to the acquisition of intangible assets.

In January of this year 2011, we completed a public offering of 4.6 million shares at $4.25 per share. The net proceeds to the company from the sale of shares, after deducting related expenses, were approximately $18.2 million. We have $7 million outstanding under our $30 million line of credit. Availability under the line is currently an additional $23 million.

Looking to Q1 2011, we expect revenue to be approximately $16 million with adjusted net income at breakeven. For Q1 2011, we project 21.8 million dilute shares outstanding. We expect full year 2011 revenue to be approximately $85 million. Our revenue and profitability for the fourth quarter of 2010 were below our initial guidance for the quarter, as we saw a decrease in revenue per click from our largest partner. This decrease occurred during the fourth quarter, and our first quarter guidance reflects the full impact of this change.

We have taken action to reduce our expenses, and expect to grow revenue from Q1 2011 levels and increase profitability throughout 2011. Because we were able to close the stock offering in January, we began 2011 with over $30 million in cash, and expect to use that cash for general corporate purposes, including working capital, growth initiatives such as the launch of our social buying business, and acquisitions.

I would now like to open the call up to Q&A. Moderator.  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyQuestion-and-Answer Session

 
  
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05.04.11 00:49
Operator

(Operator instructions) Looks like our first question will come from the line of Richard Fetyko from Merriman Capital [ph]. Please proceed.

Richard Fetyko – Merriman Capital

Good evening guys. Curious with respect to the 2011 revenue guidance of 85 million, what level of visibility you have, what sources of growth from the first quarter levels do you assume in that guidance between the three segments that you have?

Heath Clarke

So, you know, we think that we have pretty decent visibility at this point. We have if you look at SAS that as we mentioned that subscription revenue is very predictable revenue in terms of what it is going to do. It will decline over the next couple of quarters, but we do anticipate that our network business will grow from this point onwards, as well as going out [ph]. And so, when we entered the quarter, we really were in a tough situation in terms of visibility because we had Q4 and all the dynamics and variables going on there, so we really couldn’t baseline our revenues, but we spent basically the last four or five weeks doing just that.

So I am talking with Yahoo as a partner, a valued partner, and trying to figure out what is going to happen, and how this will trend. So we feel pretty confident about the numbers. We do have some revenue baked in there from the social buying in the second half, but not a lot. So we have taken a very conservative view with that. I don’t know if you want to add anything.

Ken Cragun

Yes. Our two growth platforms will be the channel sales on the OCTANE360, our own internal sales of the Exact Match product, and then couple that with some upside of the social buying business.

Richard Fetyko – Merriman Capital

Got you, and on the O&O side what do you expect to drive that business in terms of revenues, I guess assuming that monetization remains stable from these lower levels, I assume it is just more traffic.

Heath Clarke

Yes. There will be more traffic. The majority of that – I mean certainly there will be – we think there are opportunities with what has happened with Yahoo/Bing, we think there is actually opportunity. There is definitely some silver linings with it. We think there is opportunity to expand traffic traveling, but as I mentioned on the call organic traffic is really what we’re focusing on growing most strategically, and we do forecast that that will continue to grow as well. So, a combination of kind of refinement of SCM [ph] and growth in organic traffic I think drives those.

Richard Fetyko – Merriman Capital

And then lastly if I may, the profitability on the 85 million, you didn’t mention that in the press release or in the prepared remarks, just curious what factors may influence that and any other sort of color you may give us as to why you weren’t ready to provide any margin guidance?

Heath Clarke

Yes, we actually haven’t ever provided margin guidance. We only started doing annual guidance last year, and we felt it was more than ever we would need to do that this year. But we didn’t really have plans to do any bottom-line guidance anyway. But certainly color from a color standpoint, as Ken noted we do anticipate an expansion of our bottom line. So we are basically saying this is kind of the new normal, this is our baseline here in Q1, and it is breakeven. But we do anticipate an increase in margin.

I won’t say like last year – don’t take the trend lines has being the same, but last year we were able to increase margins significantly and quarter-over-quarter. So, we do anticipate that we will be able to grow our margins quarter-over-quarter this year, and offset in part by investments in the new businesses. And directionally the fourth quarter this year would be our largest margin is how I would think about that. So, increases per quarter is what we are targeting.

Richard Fetyko – Merriman Capital

Got you. Actually one more on the OCTANE360 channel sales, just curious what sort of if you can give us, review again what the product is and how do sort of the economics in the channel sales would work for you?

Heath Clarke

So, the core product is called Exact Match, and it is basically a combination of SEO, or search engine optimization, and Web hosting. It is a combination of those two, and it is a five site package, where a small business will get 5 websites that help them get ranked in Google, Yahoo/Bing.

And we felt that – on a package basis, we saw that was $1800 down, and $500 per month. And so – it is a very high margin product for us because the OCTANE automates virtually all of the production. There is some manual process, but that is handled through the OCTANE experts’ marketplace, and that is where custom content is written for the advertiser, for each one of the sites.

But ultimately – it is a very differentiated product in the market place. Ultimately we want to reach large numbers of small business advertisers through channel sales. So, we would look to provide this product on a private label basis to regional media publishers, such as our existing network partners, Yellow Page publishers, in particular. And so, when we talk about the development of our channel sales strategy, what we mean by that is building wholesales relationships, which is to say partnering with a Yellow Page publisher, providing us wholesale pricing, where we provision this product on a private-label basis to them, and then they resell that into their customer base, whether it is part of an existing bundle, and as a standalone or however they really want to do it.

And they get to price it however they want. So as we think about how we recognize revenue off of that, in a wholesale scenario, we simply recognize our portion of that what we are going to be wholesaling that to them for. Obviously that represents very high margin for us.

Richard Fetyko – Merriman Capital

Okay. Thanks, guys.

Heath Clarke

Thanks, Richard.

Ken Cragun

Thank you.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of David Delleo from Canaccord. You may proceed.

David Delleo – Canaccord Adams

Hi guys. Thanks for taking my questions. So, just kind of want to be clear here, obviously, you are stating a reset here, a one-time event. So, you look at Q1, just to be clear, this is just a monetization driven shortfall in Q1? There is nothing else going on with the business, is that a fair statement?

Heath Clarke

Yes, that is. If you kind of step back a quarter, and if you look at historically over the last four years, it’s a 50% compound annual growth that we've delivered. So, this is certainly a reset in monetization, but it doesn’t change all the other growth initiatives that we had. It doesn’t mean that there weren’t appropriate. So, if we take that reset and its full impact which is Q1, we are still looking to deliver 50% organic growth, and so, all those other strategies that we had and that we were implementing are still moving forward in full force and effect.

David Delleo – Canaccord Adams

Okay. Switching to the SAS business, you talked about that business a little bit, a predictable decline in that business, and the shift in focus really there to OCTANE360, you're getting away the bugs [ph] of acquisitions. It seems by the Q1 guidance and the full year revenue guidance, it's going to be a really second half, back half loaded model here. So, is there any shift away there from how you spoke about OCTANE360 before? It seems like now those products will be hitting more back half of the year. Is that consistent with how it's been messaged before, or are expectations for that to hit a little bit sooner?

Heath Clarke

No, we've always – even from July when we closed the deal and we began talking about it, we've always said it's a second half 2011 story. The reason for that is we have relationships with all the publishers already in some context, and we've got experience in dealing with some of them for years, so we know how long it takes. So, we certainly made progress. We have some channel sales that we've already announced. These are smaller ones in our view of the universe, but certainly important because they are first out of the gate. There will be some medium size ones and there will be some large ones, and we certainly have a full pipe of those. But, if you look at the larger ones, and the other ones that are most able to move the needle or even a combination of medium sized ones, it takes time.

You've got – the primary sales channel will likely be Yellow Page publishers, and it just takes time to get them through the pipe there. So, nothing has actually changed with respect to our view that, for OCTANE, the biggest impact is in the second half 2011. I think we've been very consistent about that and we're certainly not backing off on that view.

David Delleo – Canaccord Adams

Okay. That is helpful. Just a couple more if I might. So, you talked previously about, I think you termed it soccer mom focused websites. Remind me was that a first half '11 launch event there, what’s the latest status with those?

Heath Clarke

No, we relaunched the site in November, November 2nd I believe it was last year. This is the Local.com site, and so that represented phase I. We're working on phase II, and that will launch in the first half. So, we basically will continue to evolve the Local.com site towards a local lifestyle site. Historically, it's been primarily a directory, but we want it to be more than that for our target segment, which is the soccer mom. So, everything that we're doing on that site is oriented towards attracting that user base more frequently, and so nothing has changed there either. It’s an ongoing – it’s kind of an evergreen process in terms of refinement.

David Delleo – Canaccord Adams

Okay, and then just lastly any color on the recent iTwango acquisition just as far as where you are with integration or any analysis that you have done so far?

Heath Clarke

Yes. So iTwango, and we will be rebranding that particular name, but iTwango think about it as more of a technology platform. So we acquired that platform late last year. I think, it closed on…

Bruce Crair

January 1.

Heath Clarke

Is it January 1? So yeah, around that timeframe, so we've basically been working on, it’s not so much integrating it, it’s a standalone platform, but really planning to plan around it. We brought Malcolm Lewis aboard, and just as a reminder to the audience Malcolm Lewis – we purchased the company from him back in 2007, and that’s actually our Network business today or what's the basis for our Network business. So that’s a business that was doing about $1 million a year in expenditure, that’s a $30 million a year business for us.

So we've got a high degree of confidence that Malcolm is the right guy to put the pieces together and get this business rolling for us. We are really excited about what social group buying is, and as I said it’s a new ad product that exists in the small business market outside of search. So we believe that that strategically for us is a business and for the search – the non-major search players it’s strategically valuable to all of us, which is why I see so much interest in this space. So we think that it can be a big business for us. We are not giving any specific numbers around that, but as we plan that plan and build the models and so on it's all very encouraging, and we believe this will be a big driver of organic growth for us later this year and certainly into 2012 and beyond.

David Delleo – Canaccord Adams

Okay. Thank you.

Heath Clarke

Thank you.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Jon Hickman from MDB Capital. You may proceed.

Jon Hickman – MDB Capital

Hello, can you hear me?

Heath Clarke

Yes. Hi, Jon.

Jon Hickman – MDB Capital

Hi, can you talk more about this, when you turned on the switch, the new website and made it more of a destination site for your soccer moms, you said something about you noticed a dip in traffic, but now it's rebounded. Can you be more specific there?

Heath Clarke

Yeah. So, we’ve been working very hard from an SEO [ph] standpoint, and I will ask Bruce to provide some color here too. But from an SEO standpoint we've worked really hard on building up SEO traffic. It’s been shocking in terms of the result. So, the idea here was – it’s a combination of a new user experience, which would basically drive up pages per visitor, as well as more content on the site, and the content being oriented toward the target audience. So, when we launched the site, we launched it with certainly a lot more articles than we had previously, but we’ve been adding to the site, we’ve been continually optimizing for SEO, and while we didn’t see any significant impact in Q4, in fact we took a step back, we have seen much more positive results in Q1, maybe I’ll turn it over to Bruce to talk a little about that.

Bruce Crair

Just to be clear, this is Bruce, we completely rewrote the entire Local.com site. All new back-end, all new front-end, new data base. Almost everything in there was brand new. During that process, we did everything we could to try to maintain everything we need with to maintain our SEO, search engine optimization, for Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and the other search engines. We did take a small step back in traffic after we launched the site. It was a pretty small blip and now we’re seeing the traffic come back pretty strongly, and although one month's worth of data doesn’t a trend make, we’re pretty excited about the numbers we’re seeing so far, and hopefully in the next few quarters, we'll be able to show you – share with you some of that data.

Jon Hickman – MDB Capital

Okay. And then I know you were already asked about the channel partners, but I was kind of under the expectation that by now you’d had a significant major channel partners signed and up and going, and now I think that there was some talk about that. Can you like tell us some more where you are in those discussions?

Heath Clarke

Well, I can’t talk to any specific partnerships. Again to kind of give you some context on the timing, wherever we signed up a channel partner in the first quarter, they wouldn’t begin selling the product until the second quarter anyway, and then because it’s a subscription product, we really don’t get any – even if there was 2,000 people selling the product, there is no materiality in those numbers until we hit the third quarter. So, we’ve been fairly consistent with that in terms of our expectation in the second half.

We continue to work with some major Yellow Page publishers, some minor, or I call Tier 3 Yellow Page publishers, and a lot of those, and agencies and verticals. So we've actually got a fat pipe full of channel sales – potential channel sales partners, and it's just a matter of working your way through that pipe, or having the relationships, excuse me, the conversations and the partnerships having them work through their internal processes. So, they're just ongoing. That’s pretty much all the color I can probably give at this point.

Jon Hickman – MDB Capital

And then can you tell us more about what you're doing in this new side of the business, like, how are you reacting to the Bing thing? I mean, besides the obvious is, maybe go look at Google, but how are you, I mean, can you talk about how you're reacting to this?

Heath Clarke

Yes. So, part of our challenge was, this occurred during the fourth quarter and during the fourth quarter we had four variables. We had seasonality in our traffic, we had seasonality in the bid prices, we had a new website in the way of Yahoo/Bing. So, between those four things, it was very hard for us to benchmark what the new normal was. We had to wait till January 3 till people kind of got back from holidays and got back to the office and resumed their normal internet browsing.

From our standpoint, that's very predictable in terms of what happens there. And so, over the last four weeks, five weeks, what we've been doing is looking at our search engine marketing and optimizing for that off this new baseline of traffic working with Yahoo! and understanding what these tweaks are, what they are expected to be going forward, and perhaps things that they could do to mitigate the impact of this to the extent that it made sense historically.

So, in that process of optimizing mostly our SCM, we feel that we've gotten much better visibility, much more comfort about what this whole thing was, and we we'll continue to optimize going forward.

As I said, we don’t kind – to kind of back-up and say, hey, for a Yahoo/Bing perspective, why did they do all of this. Remember, what they are trying to do is create an alternative marketplace for Google advertisers in small businesses and large businesses to spend online on a pay per click basis. We think that that promise is very real, and we do anticipate that we’ll be able to benefit in that as that occurs, probably in the second half. Maybe, it’ll be a little bit sooner, but we are not factoring any increases, but we do think those increases will occur. It’s natural that as more advertisers switch their ads on Yahoo/Bing and then begin to experience the traffic and the quality of that traffic that they will shift spend, and that will directly help us monetize it, to the extent that we get any kind of increase in revenues per click, that hits our top line, and it drops straight to our bottom line.

So, we think it makes sense. We understand why they tweaked some of the way in which they implement their quality scoring. We think the silver lining there is a lot of smaller, pure arbitrage businesses tend to go away. That will reduce our cost of acquiring traffic in the marketplace and ultimately yield higher monetization for us. So, those are – to give you some sense of (inaudible) we are talking with other search providers, or at least ad providers. I won’t name names but we are talking to them all, and we’ll continue to do that because it’s just prudent for us to continue that dialogue.

Ken Cragun

And Jon, this is Ken. Another thing that we looked at as we were putting together our 2011 plan is that a year ago, Q4 of ’09, we were also at about $16 million in revenue and were profitable. So, we need to get our costs, our staffing, level of contractors, some discretionary marketing spend, some other costs, a little bit more in line with the lower revenue, but still have adequate team here for the growth that we do expect during 2011.

Jon Hickman – MDB Capital

So, Heath, what happened to the 20% to 30% that you used to get that you are not getting now, is Bing getting that?

Heath Clarke

The 20% to 30% higher revenue per clicks, no. As we understand it, to give you an example, if an advertiser is paying $1 per click, if that listing would come through to Local.com and a click through occurs, we would receive our revenue share of that dollar per click, whether our quality score is 8, 9 or 10, and assume for the moment our quality score is eight for the sake of this example, we are not stating that our quality score is eight.

Assume for a moment that it was eight though, that $1 dollar click bid when that comes through to Local.com, if we are scoring an eight that represents $0.80. In other words, that advertiser would only be charged $0.80 for that click. So, again, as we understand it, Bing and Yahoo! are not getting the other $0.20. It's actually not materializing at all. So, net-net, the advertiser is actually getting more traffic for the same price.

Jon Hickman – MDB Capital

So, they have made their traffic cheaper?

Heath Clarke

They have effectively, yes. The average revenue per click in that scenario would be $0.80 instead of a dollar. So, yes, they suppressed the bid prices, but again, if you look at that and take a long-term outlook, even a short-term outlook, you’d say, well, if an advertiser is happy with that, he's going to increase his spend and shift more dollars across that marketplace. So, let me give you another scenario. Let’s say that $1 bid, although they are only paying at $0.80 to a site that scores eight in their quality scoring system, that bid goes to $1.20 and suddenly you are generating $0.96 again, which is almost on par with what you were generating before this.

So, it doesn’t take a lot of bid increase to kind of get back to the old normal, and we think that those things will happen over time. If you recall, when we launched Local.com through to the fourth quarter – which is in fourth quarter – third quarter 2005, through to the fourth quarter of 2008, average revenue per click increased every month except for one month. So, it's actually more unusual for RPCs to stay flat, certainly they've stayed flat or have been choppy throughout the recession, but as we come out of that number one, and as this marketplace delivers on its promise of an alternative market for advertisers online, there is nothing but margin expansion available to us, and we feel very optimistic that that will be the case, we are just not forecasting it for now.

Jon Hickman – MDB Capital

Okay, thanks.

Heath Clarke

All right. Thanks, Jon.

Operator

At this time, I am showing no further questions in queue. I would like to turn the call back to Mr. Ken Cragun for any closing remarks.

Ken Cragun

Thank you for being on the call today, and I’d now like to turn the call back over to David for our final disclosures.

David Castle

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2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyFirmenseite

 
  
    #11
05.04.11 03:09

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyITwango LLC ist jetzt Spreebird

 
  
    #12
05.04.11 03:15
O.C. search site buys group-buying technology
1/14/2011 - OC Register

Local.com Corp., an Irvine online local search network, has bought iTwango LLC ( http://www.itwango.com/ ) , an early-stage company developing a platform for advertisers to submit discouted daily deals to consumers based on location targeting.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

ITwango enables group buying, which is the purchase of special offers from a business promising a minimum number of buyers.

“We believe that the group-buying model is a powerful new development in local advertising that effectively closes the gap between online research and offline transactions, and therefore represents an important step in demonstrating to small businesses the immediacy and value of local online advertising,” said Heath Clarke, Local.com chairman and CEO.

Clark said the first products based on iTwango technology will be available by summer for regional media publishers that have their own sales teams that sell to local advertisers.

For more information, please visit: http://jan.ocregister.com/2011/01/14/...oup-buying-technology/52782/.  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyThe Business Journal honored Local.com

 
  
    #13
05.04.11 03:30
The Business Journal honored Local.com as Orange County’s third fastest growing public company in 2010.
http://corporate.local.com/Site/Show/...rs-honored-for-excellence.htm  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyOne more way to invest

 
  
    #14
05.04.11 04:01
One more way to invest in social networking is with Local.com(LOCM_), which is a way to play the Groupon trend. This company provides local search services on the Internet that provides information to users on around 14 million local businesses. Like Groupon, Local.com allows its customers to search on the Internet for deals and coupons from businesses that operate where they reside. Local.com also allows its users to search for businesses and events in their area that might be of interest to them.
More from Roberto Pedone


If Google was willing to spend $6 billion to buy Groupon, then Local.com, with a market cap of only $113 million, could be a steal for any large firm that wants to get in on the social networking trend. Groupon recently completed a capital-raising investment round that brought in around $950 million and valued the company at close to $4.75 billion.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10966667/4/...-stocks-to-consider.html  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeychart

 
  
    #15
05.04.11 04:11

530 Postings, 4891 Tage Iapetus1Bin mal gespannt, ob der Ausbruch sich fortsetzt

 
  
    #16
05.04.11 10:58
wie im Dezember!

Nette Zusammenstellung von aktuellen Initial-Infos zu LOCM!

By the way: zu diesem Wert gibt es bereits zwei andere Threads in diesem Board.  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyHallo Lapetus

 
  
    #17
05.04.11 14:43
Hallo Lapetus,

habe die beiden anderen Threads gesehen und habe mich dazu entschlossen einen neuen aufzumachen, da LOCM  durch Spreebird "Coupon Onlineverkauf" sich neu aufgestellt hat und meiner Meinung nach eine Neubewertung des Unternehmens ansteht.

Jetzt ist eine Übernahme durch Google noch wahrscheinlicher geworden imo

Auf steigende Kurse!

thekey  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekey4 sterne

 
  
    #18
05.04.11 15:38

530 Postings, 4891 Tage Iapetus1Eine Übernahme halte ich auch für sehr gut möglich

 
  
    #19
05.04.11 15:47
gerade nachdem das Coupon-Geschäft hinzugekommen ist.
Aber an Google als Acquisiteur glaube ich eher weniger, da die ja ihren Service "Google Offers" aufsetzen. Aber man kann nie wissen...
http://www.googlewatchblog.de/2011/01/...-offers-wird-groupon-rivale/

Dann schaun mer mal was sich tut... good luck!

"I"apetus (die Schriftart oben links lässt "l" und "I" gleich aussehen).  

491 Postings, 4915 Tage Taurus82vielen dank...

 
  
    #20
05.04.11 15:55
schon mal für die interessanten infos. aber was haltet ihr eigentlich von den komischen und signifikanten intraday-sprüngen in den letzten handelstagen? sieht ja schon seltsam aus im kursverlauf an der nasday seit freitag... ;)

immernoch so viele manipulationen?  

265 Postings, 4973 Tage bunnyhillgehe davon aus,

 
  
    #21
05.04.11 16:03
dass da immer wieder kurzzeitige Short-Attacken stattfinden, um einen dauerhaften Ausbruch zu ver- oder zumindest zu behindern.  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyhöherpreisige Segmente

 
  
    #22
06.04.11 21:15
In dem höherpreisigen Segment von Aktivitäten und Reisen kann man bei Coupons am meisten Geld verdienen.
Mal schauen wann die Reisen bei spreebird.com eingepflegt werden.Sicher nur eine Frage der Zeit.
Aktivitäten sind ja schon vorhanden...
http://activities.local.com/Activities.php  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyGroupon Concept

 
  
    #23
07.04.11 19:51
Local.com ( LOCM ) might wait publishing a PR until the beta testing is done. For sure this stock is way undervalued imo.
The market cap is way below 100M US$ and should be at least @500M US$ cause local.com is not alone the group shopping website.

It is very easy to create a business á la Groupon.

In Germany the Samwer brothers cloned the "Groupon Concept"
and launched the coupon website in Dec 2009 in Germany.
They expanded very fast in 15 European countries and the Samwers sold that Groupon clone, MyCityDeal (later called: CityDeal), to Groupon itself for something in the region of €100 million in May 2010.

Andrew Masons speech in Germany you find here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE1eYjmDKyE
Blog news
http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/groupon-europe/

LOCM is a time bomb and ready to explode!

Just a matter of time the market gonna recognize that...  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeykey marks

 
  
    #24
07.04.11 20:47
Es gibt aktuell 2 ganz wichtig Marken in charttechnischer Hinsicht:
auf dem weekly muss die MA40 (aktuell $4.58) gebrochen werden
und auf dem daily muss die MA200 gebrochen werden.
Geschieht dies , dann dürften wir sehr schnell Richtung Gapfill $6.75 laufen!
Drücke die Daumen für alle... auf geht´s!

 

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyAktuelle chartsituation 7.4.2011

 
  
    #25
07.04.11 23:59
 
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2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeygroße Blöcke am Freitag am Ende des Tages

 
  
    #26
10.04.11 00:37
NLS Time (ET) NLS Price NLS Share Volume
16:00:03 $ 4.12 26,980
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16:00:00 $ 4.12 26,980
16:00:00 $ 4.11 725  

14 Postings, 5894 Tage 9to5geldmacherei?

 
  
    #27
10.04.11 01:31

habe bei diesen Seiten immer das Gefühl, dass die eigentlich nur verkauft werden sollen.

Laut http://www.schnaeppchenfuchs.com/blog/ steuern auch die Dailydeal Macher darauf zu. Weiß aber nicht ob es stimmt.

 

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyCMF

 
  
    #28
03.06.11 00:41
Der CMF ist heute extrem nach oben gedreht!
Es wurden knapp 800k Aktien in kürzester Zeit eingekauft nachdem Groupon sein S1 Filing für ihr IPO bekannt geben haben.  

2824 Postings, 8870 Tage thekeyGaps to fill

 
  
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03.06.11 00:54
 
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