Modern Commerce Monitor

12/06/2019

We posted a new podcast last night featuring a chat we had yesterday with Yext VP of Industry Insights Duane Forrester all about the state of play in search. Check it out.

https://soundcloud.com/above_the_cloud/episode-36-the-answers-evolution-with-duane-forrester

11/24/2019

Ou latest episode of Above the Cloud features a conversation about sales with Elise Balsillie, GM Sales at Yellow Pages AU conducted in early November at Asiacomm 19. Please check it out for a look at how a traditional media organization is evolving its approach to sales. And please subscribe, rate, and review us.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-35-evolving-yellow-sales-channel-elise-balsillie/id1398421655?i=1000457470913

11/07/2019

LSA Analysts Charles Laughlin and Neal Polachek participated in a panel discussion at Asiacomm 2019 about how SaaS is changing the small business space.

This session, moderated by LSA Senior Analyst Charles Laughlin, examines trends in small business technology adoption from a global perspective. Panelists in...

10/28/2019

Our latest Above the Cloud podcast features an "around the horn" session with the LSA Analyst team. One topic w covered was whether gaining certainty around privacy regulation will drive consolidation in the location intelligence space.

Catch the full episode here: https://soundcloud.com/above_the_cloud/episode-33-share-of-ear-unicorns-and-more-with-the-lsa-analyst-team

10/23/2019

"There seems to be a growing backlash against companies, many of them solidly within or adjacent to the SMB space, that have outsize ambition, but very little hope of making money."

https://www.lsainsider.com/have-the-unicorns-jumped-the-shark/archives

10/05/2019

New episode of Above the Cloud features Synup SVP Brett House talking about his new "State of Retail 2019" report and why so many retail brands are doing local marketing wrong.

Oct 4, 2019 - The LSA talks to Synup SVP, Growth, Brett House about the company's "State of Retail 2019" report and generally how brands need to readjust their marketing to the new realities of the consumer path to purchase.

10/03/2019

Above the Cloud is now available on Stitcher!

Above the Cloud is a podcast from the Tech Adoption Index, a research, business intelligence and content platform focused on the small business shift to the cloud. The Tech Adoption Index is an initiative of the Local Search Association.

10/02/2019

Here's a summary of our latest podcast, featuring Duda CEO Itai Sadan. Great conversation about the website space.

In this episode of the Above the Cloud podcast, Duda Co-founder and CEO Itai Sadan talks about the website builder business and how the company plans to use its recent $25 million equity round. This round brings Duda's fundraising total to $50 million since the company was founded in 2009 by Itai an

09/25/2019

We had a chat with Duda CEO Itai Sadan about the companiy's $25 million growth equity raise this week, and what it says about Duda's confidecen in the future of Websites for SMBs. Podcast goes up Thursday.

09/18/2019

Our colleague Neal Polachek has been evangelizing this idea for years. It seems to finally be taking root.

Those of you who know me have probably heard my pitch for the buy-it-yourself ad platform for local and small businesses. Perhaps you’ve heard it more than once. I can’t recall the exact date when I first made the case for a BIY platform. I think it was about four years ago, when I was trying to

09/17/2019

"There’s lots of attention and innovation focused on productivity for the knowledge workers of the world. That’s led to everything from Slack to PowerPoint. But what about the larger addressable market of non-desk workers?"

Beekeeper, which just raised $45 million, looks to fill this gap.

Data Scout is LSA's series that curates and draws meaning from third-party data. Running semi-weekly, it adds an analytical layer to the industry data that we encounter in daily knowledge building. For LSA original data, see the separate Modern Commerce Monitor™️ series. There's lots of atten

09/12/2019

Shopify just plopped down $450 million to raise its logistics game as part of its push to not just be an Amazon alternative, but to take the eCommerce Megatron on directly. Not too long ago, we were talking about Shopify being in a battle with Square and Squarespace to become a single source for