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September 27, 2019

If Amazon Can’t Be in Your Pocket, It Wants to Be on Your Head

This is the latest in LSA’s Skate To Where the Puck is Going series. Running semi-weekly, it examines the moves and motivations of tech giants as leading indicators for where markets are moving. Check out the entire series here, and its origin here. As you may have read, Amazon launched a full hardware blitz this…

Contributed by: Mike Boland

September 26, 2019

What’s the Best SMB Website Builder, Part IV: WordPress’ Windfall

This is part IV in our series on SMB website builders. See the whole series here. As the latest move in the SMB website wars, WordPress-centric Automattic last week raised a $300 million in funding from Salesforce’s strategic venture arm, Salesforce Ventures. This gives Automattic a post-money valuation of $3 billion and brings lots of…

Contributed by: Mike Boland

September 20, 2019

ICYMI: What’s New in SMB Tech

“ICYMI (in case you missed it) What’s New in SMB SaaS” is a periodic series on LSA Insider that curates and offers brief commentary on recent events related to the emerging SMB SaaS ecosystem that you may have overlooked. This week we look at development at Postmates, Grab, GoCardless, and Thryv. On-demand delivery platform…

Contributed by: Charles Laughlin

September 18, 2019

What’s the Best SMB Website Builder? Part II: Constant Contact Enters

This is part II in our series on SMB website builders. Part III will publish tomorrow and others will follow. See the whole series here. Email marketing powerhouse Constant Contact this week became the latest entrant to the website-builder competitive landscape. Along with websites, it’s also launching adjacent/complimentary services such as a logo maker, eCommerce…

Contributed by: Mike Boland

September 13, 2019

Video Vault: ‘Rundles’ (Recurring Bundles) are the New Norm

This is the latest in LSA’s Video Vault series. Running semi-weekly, it examines selected conference talks including embedded video and key takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. Check out the entire series here. What can we expect from the worlds of tech and media over the next year? Oddsmaking in tech is always tough but NYU professor…

Contributed by: Mike Boland

September 12, 2019

Stripe Steps Closer to One-Stop-Shop For SMB Fintech

Stripe announced at its Sessions developer event this week that it will issue a credit card in 45 countries. This comes one week after the related launch of Stripe Capital. Altogether, it brings the company from payments gateway to lender and, more notably, a step closer to being a one-stop-shop for SMB fintech. It will…

Contributed by: Mike Boland

September 11, 2019

What Keeps SMBs Up at Night?

This is the latest in a series of LSA Insider posts citing data from our Modern Commerce Monitor™️ small business survey about SMB SaaS adoption. The MCM surveys 1,000 SMBs about their use (or non-use) of SaaS to operate every aspect of their businesses. Find previous posts sourcing MCM data here. The LSA’s Modern Commerce…

Contributed by: Charles Laughlin

August 29, 2019

New Podcast: “SEO is Never Going Away,” with Gavan Thorpe (Video)

In this episode of the Above the Cloud podcast, we ask Boostability CEO Gavan Thorpe to talk about the state of local SEO. His company focuses on delivering SEO services at scale to very small businesses. Boostability works with partners like directory companies and digital agencies, as well as, increasingly, non-media centric B2B channels like…

Contributed by: Charles Laughlin

August 29, 2019

What’s Behind Yelp’s New Personalized UX?

This is the latest in LSA’s Skate To Where the Puck is Going series. Running semi-weekly, it examines the moves and motivations of tech giants as leading indicators for where markets are moving. Check out the entire series here, and its origin here. Yelp announced a new feature on Tuesday that will create a personalized…

Contributed by: Mike Boland

August 26, 2019

Webinar Preview: How to Move the Needle on SaaS Engagement (Video)

Despite tremendous growth in adoption and despite making a huge difference in improving the lives of small business operators, the small business software industry has a serious problem with its customers failing to sufficiently engage with the SaaS products they purchase. Many small businesses owners fail to use the software they buy to its full…

Contributed by: Charles Laughlin

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