Category: Blog – Laurie McCabe

How HubSpot Is Recalibrating Customer, Partner and Employee Experience

How HubSpot Is Recalibrating Customer, Partner and Employee Experience

COVID-19 has disrupted “business as usual” for companies of all sizes and shapes. As the initial shock and awe start to subside, business decision-makers must figure out how they need to adjust customer, partner and employee engagement strategies amidst ongoing uncertainty.

Dell Technologies Rolls Out Financial Assistance for Partners and Customers

Dell Technologies Rolls Out Financial Assistance for Partners and Customers

Adequate cash flow is always crucial to business sustainability—and even more important in the face of COVID-19 and the havoc it is wreaking on businesses and individuals. Dell Technologies recently announced $9 billion in special financing to help its partners to weather this storm. Many of Dell’s partners are small and medium businesses (SMBs) themselves—and many more provide sales and sup...

Striven Strives for Success in the Small Business Management Cloud Software Market

Striven Strives for Success in the Small Business Management Cloud Software Market

Building market momentum for a new business management ERP-type of solution is never easy, even in good times. These days, its particularly challenging. But that hasn’t stopped Striven, which provides a fully integrated all-in-one software system for small businesses, from moving ahead. Below is my conversation with Scott Hammer, Marketing Manager of Str...

Payroll Protection Loan Blues? Be Ready for the Next Round with This Free Tool

Payroll Protection Loan Blues? Be Ready for the Next Round with This Free Tool

If you’ve tried to submit a Paycheck Protection Loan (PPL) application over the last week, it’s likely that you’ve noticed how broken the system is. Especially because you’re having to find a lender who is accepting loan applications and deal with SBA red tape. A lucky few have been able to move fast and gained access to their slice of the nearly $350 billion allocated to this program. Now, ...

Paving a Path to Digital Transformation for Your Business

Paving a Path to Digital Transformation for Your Business

More than 80% of small and medium business decision-makers agree or strongly agree that digital technology is impacting their businesses and industries. But as we discussed in this post, getting started on the path to digital transformation isn’t easy: only 24% of SMBs are cu...

Free eBook Now Available: Survey Results on The Impact of COVID-19 on SMBs

Free eBook Now Available: Survey Results on The Impact of COVID-19 on SMBs

COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus, is having a devastating effect on small and medium businesses (SMBs)—the engine of the U.S. economy and those around the world. But how deep and broad is the impact? SMB Group is providing answers to this question in our new, free eBook, sponsored by our partners, Acumat...

Making Work at Home Work for Your Company: Advice from Wrike’s Andrew Filev

Making Work at Home Work for Your Company: Advice from Wrike’s Andrew Filev

COVID-19 has disrupted our lives unprecedented ways. Many of us have been working under stay at home conditions for a month or more. We know the pandemic will eventually abate, but we don’t know how quickly this will happen, or how the crisis will reshape the “new” normal over time.