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October 8, 2019

Will Local Deals Make Nextdoor Feel Less “Organic”?

Lots of attention is being paid today to Nextdoor’s announcement that it’s rolling out a new ad platform for local businesses called Local Deals. The new platform offers a way to “hyper-target” the millions of consumers who are on Nextdoor. According to the press release announcing Local Deals, “90% of consumers make the majority of…

Contributed by: Neal Polachek

September 29, 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 feature Vendasta, Spotzer, Yoco, and Thryv. South Africa’s Yoco Rolls Out New “Card…

Contributed by: Charles Laughlin

September 13, 2019

ICYMI: What’s New in SMB SaaS

“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. WeWork IPO on the Rocks WeWork’s IPO woes do not appear to be abating. Tech Crunch…

Contributed by: Charles Laughlin

September 6, 2019

ICYMI: What’s New in SMB SaaS

“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. Stripe Has a Capital Idea The payments platform Stripe has launched Stripe Capital and will now…

Contributed by: Charles Laughlin

August 23, 2019

Is Amazon’s Big SMB Bet a Game Changer?

Saw this floating around yesterday. Well “floating around” probably underplays its significance. Apparently, Amazon is planning to spend $15 billion on tools for small and medium-sized businesses. That means they’re up for spending $150 per global SMB — we usually use 100 million as the total worldwide addressable SMB market. But Amazon’s investment in SMBs…

Contributed by: Neal Polachek

August 12, 2019

What’s that Fruit in Your Wallet?

Apple finally launched its credit card last week. This long-awaited move makes a lot of sense. After setting the gold standard for phones, tablets, and laptops, it doesn’t seem like such a big challenge for Apple to set a new standard in credit cards. So what exactly did Apple do? Beyond just issuing a credit…

Contributed by: Neal Polachek

August 6, 2019

What Can We Expect from GateHouse-Gannett Deal?

The parent company of GateHouse Media has acquired Gannett, publisher of USA Today and operating of digital marketing platforms like LocalIQ. The cash and stock deal is worth about $1.38 billion and is expressly aimed at driving out costs overlapping between the two media companies while accelerating digital transformation. Whenever deals like this happen disruption…

Contributed by: Charles Laughlin

July 31, 2019

Yell Touts New CEO Claire Miles’ Tech and Transformation Background

Hibu Group has named Claire Miles as the new CEO of Yell, the UK division that recently closed the books on print Yellow Pages in order to become a fully digital enterprise. Miles is currently Managing Director for the Connected Home at Centrica, the parent company of British Gas. She has been central to the…

Contributed by: Charles Laughlin

July 24, 2019

The Lesson for DoorDash? Transparency is Inevitable

This, not to mention the many other articles written about Doordash’s, shall we say, less than transparent policy for handling tips, has left me scratching my head. Why the head-scratching? This is 2019. Not 2009. Not 1999. In today’s world, sleight of hand practices like this WILL be exposed. And in fact, the practice has…

Contributed by: Neal Polachek

June 28, 2019

Daily News: SMB Cash Crunch, Voice Search Usage, Consumers & Texts from Businesses

Here is today’s roundup of news related to local marketing and advertising, local media, technology, local commerce, consumer behavior and more. Fundbox Jumps into Race to Solve the SMB Cash Crunch (June 28, 2019) LSA Insider: “Solving B2B cash flow inefficiency is getting more and more attention from fintech players. It’s a huge problem for…

Contributed by: Courtney Dobson

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