Podcast: Talking Small Business Tech with Vendasta’s Brendan King

Vendasta CEO Brendan King wants to lead his reseller partners, which range from local media sellers to vertical digital agencies to pure play technology companies, into a world where they sell a full cloud-based marketing technology stack using a monthly recurring revenue model. King believes it’s the key to reducing churn and driving better margins […]

Study: 63% of Local Searches Made by People Undecided on a Provider or Retailer

Every day, billions of searches are conducted on Google and the company says roughly 20% are related to location. Consumers are turning to search engines to uncover information about nearby local businesses. Many consumers don’t have a specific business in mind when they start a search, so they’ve turned to the Internet for guidance. New […]

Google to Display Women-Led Attribute in Map & Search Results

March 8 was International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. To coincide with that event, Google announced that map and search results will make it easier to identify women-led businesses. The attribute is connected directly to the Google My Business dashboard. The attribute, a female gender […]