If your business can’t be Googled, then, for most people, it doesn’t exist. You may be able to create leads via word-of-mouth, social media, or through speaking engagements. But if you don’t have a website or if your site cannot be found online, then you’re missing out on a tremendous amount of business. You see, […]
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Your business doesn’t need to be a billion-dollar, multinational company like Walmart, to make use of Big Data, artificial intelligence, etc. In fact, learning how to use this technology could be a distinctive advantage for a small business too. Many small and medium-sized businesses won’t take advantage of this potential edge. They assume that Big Data
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Small businesses in the South led the nation in job growth last month. But that may be one of the only pieces of good news from a recent employment index. Job growth overall among America’s small businesses is continuing a downward trend. According to the November Paychex | IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch survey this
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This week I attended my first Xerocon, the user conference put on by cloud-based accounting platform Xero. And while the company is not yet a household name in the US to small businesses, they have over 1.2 million subscribers, and more than $1.5 trillion of transactions have taken place on their platform, according to CEO
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Most Corporations have the advantage of unlimited access to all the features a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) platform offers. Now small businesses can also enjoy this perk as well. During Salesforce’s yearly Dreamforce conference, the company announced that one of their best performing CRM platforms – the Sales Cloud Lightning Essentials – will be available
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The end of the year is a good time for small and midsize business owners who benefit from U.S. consumers’ holiday spending spree. Twenty percent of the annual revenues the average small and midsize business earns comes in between Thanksgiving and December 31, the second national SMB & Money Survey reports. For companies that sell
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A new mandate is set to take effect for trucking companies this month, requiring the use of electronic logging devices (ELDs) in every vehicle. And some truckers and business owners aren’t happy about the change, some even organizing ELD protests across the country. The concern seems especially of concern to small trucking firms because of the
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Gone are the days where it was expensive and time consuming for a small business to get a website up and running. In fact, 92 percent of small businesses project to launch a website by the end of 2018. If you still haven’t launched your small business website, you’re behind the curve. You may say
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If someone said there is a device that is always on and always connected with battery life for days, guessing it is a smartphone wouldn’t be a bad answer. However, these are features of the new ASUS NovaGo and HP ENVY x2 laptops with built-in LTE connectivity. The announcement of always-connected PCs is ushering the
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Target (NYSE: TGT) just announced the integration of Wallet to its Target App. This new capability will further extend the digital experience while customers are shopping in its stores. With this app, Android and iOS users can use their mobile device to just scan at checkout. The app also includes Target REDcard and Cartwheel to
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