Is employee satisfaction at your company dwindling? Perhaps productivity has taken a downward trajectory and showing little sign of recovery? Maybe employee morale is low, and turnover is too high? Time to hit restart. If you’re looking for an innovation and productivity boost,...
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Is Your Business Ready for the New Workforce?
Attracting, retaining and engaging employees have always been fundamental to business success. According to Gallup, businesses in the top quartile of employee engagement achieve 21% greater profitability than those in the bottom quartile. But sweeping demographic, technological and cultural shifts in the workforce pose a daunting challenge for SMBs: how to create an environment...
Putting Technology to Work to Help Your Small Business Grow
Many small businesses want to grow! But growing your small business isn’t easy—and the methods that worked in the past may no longer work in a world where disruption is the new normal. Today, almost any business can...
Does Your SMB Strategy Need A Makeover? Seven Warning Signs
Are you trying to get on solid footing in small and medium businesses (SMB) market, but missing the mark? All too many technology vendors target but rarely build a volume business in this space. Many vendors simply fail to take the time to really understand the composition and characteristics of the “SMB” market–which, in reality, is short hand for a fragmented marke...
SMB Digital Transformation: Why, When, Where and How?
SMB Group’s 2017 U.S. Small and Medium Business Digital Transformation Study reveals that today’s small and medium businesses (SMBs) have tuned into the digital revolution. As noted in
Dell’s IoT Strategy and Partner Programs: Part Two
“…as Dell and its partners mature together and IoT use cases become even more repeatable, we can develop focused solution bundles complete with sensors, infrastructure and software.”
SMB Group’s 2016 Top 10 SMB Technology Trends
Here are SMB Group’s Top 10 SMB Technology Trends for 2016! A more detailed description of ...
SMB Adoption and Trends in Marketing Automation
This is the second post in a blog series discussing key marketing automation trends for SMBs. This series is excerpted from SMB Group’s December 2014 report, SMB Group Perspectives Report: Top Trends in Marketing Automation and How Vendors Are Helping SMBs to Capit...
Discussing 2015 SMB Tech Trends, Part 4: KPIs Trump ROI and TCO as the New “Show Me” Metric
Recently, I had the pleasure of kicking off the new year as a guest on Act Local Marketing for Small Business with host Kalynn Amadio. Each week, Kalynn shares information and actionable tips to help inspire and motivate small and medium businesses (SMBs) reach their business goals. On this episode,...
Intuit QuickBooks Connect: Where Small Business Is Big Business
This is part one of a two-part blog series discussing Intuit's strategy to help SMBs better capitalize on technology. This first post provides perspectives from Intuit's 2014 QuickBooks Connect event. The second post, I...