Intuit’s tack to build new, data-driven services for small businesses–such as its new lending service–provides the company with an exciting opportunities to disrupt the status quo and create new revenue streams.
Category: SMB
Cloud Cover: Cloud Management and Security for SMBs
As cloud adoption grows, so does the complexity of managing and securing data in the cloud.
Making The Internet of Things Real For SMBs
The World Wide Web became commercially viable 20 years ago, and it quickly became clear that the phrase “The Interne...
New Rules for Tech Vendors: How the SMB Buying Journey Is Changing
Over the years we’ve seen many vendors flail—and even fail—when it comes to successfully reaching, selling and serving SMBs. And its arguably getting even more difficult to be successful as as the SMB landscape changes.
Building a Successful Corporate Culture: Tips from Glassdoor’s 2014 CEO of the Year
“What we do at Intacct is we look at first, is, are you a customer-centric type of individual? Do you care about others? Do you care about the customer? Do you care about your fellow employees? Do you care about our partners? “
Automation and Insight: Intacct’s Focus for Dreamforce 2015
“Organizations need empirical data to make both strategic and tactical decisions. If they can see what’s happening, they can spot opportunities and go after them. Or if all of the sudden there’s a new issue starting to bubble, you’ll see it and you can hone in on it. “
Reduce Effort and Boost Confidence: Infusionsoft’s Goals to Help Small Businesses Improve Sales and Marketing
“A lot of what we are solving for is multi-system chaos. A lot of small businesses start using many, many tools to try to solve a problem. The may say, let me try this tool or let me try that tool, before really slowing down and starting to think about, what am I trying to accomplish in my business? So a big opportunity for us is to translate the years and years of expertise that InfusionSoft has to what we call the small business success method or life cycle marketing.”
Inbound for Everyone Everywhere: HubSpot’s Quest
HubSpot continues to do a stellar job in leading the inbound movement, and developing some of the most innovative solutions in this area. Ironically, however, as it grows its portfolio, HubSpot itself now faces some new inbound marketing challenges of its own.
How Well Do You Know The Very Small Businesses That You Want to Sell To?
Technology vendors are increasingly targeting very small businesses (VSBs, with 1 to 19 employees) with their solutions, lured by the sheer size of the market and the relatively low penetration of many technology solutions in this sector.
Take the quiz and find out if you know the basics about what makes the 99% tick!
Sage’s Everest: Building Mind and Market Share With A New Generation of SMBs
At last week’s Sage Summit, one of the featured speakers was renowned British explorer, entrepreneur and adventurer