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How ReachLocal Wants To Own The Consumer Transaction

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ReachLocal (www.reachlocal.com) was born in the age of Internet search marketing, and helped define Internet marketing from local service providers--letting people know about your local business via the Internet. You go to a review site and the search engines to find local vendors, where they are dozens.

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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

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Lynda.com offers up online education courses on things like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, and much more. Weinman started the site and associated business because--as she told us in a 2010--that there's wasn't much industry around Ojai where she could continue her work teaching computer skills.

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