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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

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

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

Asaicomm 2019: Adapting to the New SMB Reality This session, moderated by LSA Senior Analyst Charles Laughlin, examines trends in small business technology adoption from a global perspective. Panelists in...

"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

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.

Episode 32: "The State of Retail," with Synup's Brett House 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.

Above the Cloud is now available on Stitcher!

Above the Cloud 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.

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

New Podcast: "A Drop in the Bucket" with Duda's Itai Sadan (Video) 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

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

The Buy-it-Yourself Model Makes Landfall in Local TV 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

"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.

Is There a Market Gap for a 'Slack For Non-Desk Workers?' 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

Shopify Adds to Its Anti-Amazon Arsenal 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