IdealSpot aims to act as 'Google alerts' for commercial retail locations
Mark Smookler · 1041 From Sake to $1m ARR SaaS · May 31, 2018 · at 13:16
Mark Smookler describes IdealSpot's ongoing product strategy to provide recurring demand monitoring and local market alerts to brick-and-mortar operators.
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“Things are always changing in the retail market and giving them the ability to be more reactive to what's happening is what we are hoping to do more and more of, right? So call it Google alerts for your retail location.”
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