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Facebook Study Shows Choppy SMB Pandemic Recovery
Small businesses worldwide are recovering, if in fits and starts, from the body blow delivered by the global pandemic. Facebook’s latest Global State of Small
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Study Reveals Inflation’s Impact on Amazon’s Brick and Mortar Stores
We’ve been enjoying InMarket’s ongoing series of reports that derive insights from actual retail foot traffic patterns. InMarket does this by collecting its permission-based in-store
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Can Subscriptions Work for Local Restaurants?
Subscription-based product models have been all the rage in recent history – everything from newsletters to SaaS. Can this translate to local restaurants in the form of subscription-based loyalty programs? We examine.
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InMarket Study Reveals Secret to Retaining Brand Loyalty Amid Chaos
Retail brands had a challenge on their hands maintaining customer loyalty during the pandemic. With rising prices and supply chain disruptions frustrating consumers, conditions were
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InMarket Traffic Report Illustrates Omnichannel Holiday Season
Supply chain concerns were top of mind for everyone during the 2021 holiday shopping season. A new Q4 2021 retail foot traffic report from InMarket
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Vcita Survey Documents Small Business Digital Acceleration
Each year, the small business SaaS company vcita surveys small businesses to check in on what keeps them up at night. And on how much
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Canva Raises $200M for its Creative-Cloud for SMBs
Canva continues to forge a path to democratize design. The web-based tool is meant to appeal to individuals, graphic designers and SMBs with a no-code approach. Now it has advanced that mission with $200 million in funding.
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‘Connected Communications’ Player Nextiva Raised $200M
So Arizona-based Nextiva sits in a unique spot in the “conversational commerce” space. Launched as a VOIP company in 2006., Nextiva now combines communications, CRM,
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Investor Money Keeps Flowing into Online Food Platforms
There is a big question hanging over the dining industry. How important will online ordering and delivery be in a post-pandemic world? The consensus answer
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More Money Flows into ‘Neighborhood as a Service’ Startups
In June we wrote about Venn, an Israeli-American company founded in 2107 that has raised $100 million to date to built out a concept it
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The Amazon-Seller Roll-Up Race Rolls On
One trend we’ve been tracking is what we call the “great eCommerce rollup.” This reflects the emerging business model to buy up third-party Amazon marketplace sellers — otherwise know as FBA’s (or fulfilled by Amazon). We examine the latest.
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Can Anyone Take on the Delivery App Giants?
The love-hate (mostly hate) relationship between restaurants and delivery aggregators isn’t showing much sign of abating. Even though in many municipalities, Covid-era caps on commissions
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SalesLoft Tops $100M ARR, Adds Big Name in SaaS to Its Board
Sales enablement player SalesLoft announced a significant milestone since it was founded a decade ago. The company says it reached the $100 million annual recurring
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Can Remote Technology Solve the Restaurant Labor Shortage?
This is one of those ideas where the timing just feels perfect. Imagine pulling up to a fast-food drive-thru late one evening. In a tone
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Vistaprint Deal Represents ‘100s of 1000s’ in New Wix Subscribers
Wix announced on its Q2 earnings call today that it will become the website builder for Vistaprint. At first glance, it appears to be the
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SMB Saas Tackles the Creator Economy
One emerging subsector of the broader SMB SaaS world that Localogy tracks is the creator economy. Not necessarily a new segment, these are the Etsy artists and cooking show upstarts of the world.
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Young Consumers Still Dominate Buy Now, Pay Later Adoption
New data from eMarketer confirms what proponents of the buy now, pay later financing model have been telling us for years. U.S. adoption of the
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What Are “Necessity Entrepreneurs” and Why Do They Matter?
The other day I was searching for some data on how many more businesses were being launched during Covid vs. pre-Covid. The numbers are way
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Chatmeter Report Shows Small Restaurant Brands Understand CX
Some restaurant brands get the whole customer experience thing better than others. Chatmeter, a customer experience platform for multi-location brands, has just released a report,
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More Money Pours into Ghost Kitchens
On and off, we’ve been covering the phenomenon of ghost kitchens. (AKA cloud kitchens). It’s a phenomenon that predates the pandemic. Uber-bro Travis Kalanick launched