In the midst of the holiday rush, website platform developer Wix delivered a welcome gift to small businesses: an integrated suite of marketing products called Ascend. Although I didn’t have a chance to write about it at the time, I did attend the launch, and wanted to recap the announcement because the new suit...
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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...
QuckBooks 2018: Intuit Opens a New Chapter for Small Businesses
QuickBooks Connect (QBC) 2018 signaled the end of an era at Intuit, as Brad Smith formally announced that he’ll be stepping out of the...
Beyond the Basics: Why It May be Time to Upgrade Your Company’s PCs and Laptops
Seeking growth is a business constant for small and medium businesses (SMBs). However, the means to achieve this goal is changing. Today’s SMBs know that they need to put technology to work to help the achieve top business goals—such as attracting new customers, improving employee productivity and streamlining operations. If you want your business to survive ...
Top Takeaways and the Midmarket View from Workday Rising 2018
Workday has quickly become a force to be reckoned with in large enterprise human capital management (HCM), payroll and financial software markets. Since its founding in 2005, the company has grown to over 9700 employees. Today, more than 2,300 customers use Workday’s core applications, and an additional 4,000 customers use its Adaptive Insights solutions. What’s more, the compan...
Essentials: As Essential to Salesforce as it is For Small Businesses?
Just one year ago, Salesforce took a big leap forward to launch Essentials for small businesses at Dreamforce 2017. As I discussed in this post, Essentials replaced Salesforce’s former patchwork of disconnected small business apps with an integrated CRM sol...
Acumatica’s Next Chapter: Building on Solid Ground
Acumatica may not be the biggest brand on the SMB ERP stage, but the 10-year old company is intent on heading into the spotlight. With ten years of experience in the market, and over 4,000 customers, Acumatica has built a solid presence across multiple industries, including manufacturing, distribution, retail and ecommerce, field service, professional services, and food and beverage (Figure ...
IT Exchange: Helping SMBs Find, Select and Manage IT Service Providers
SMBs consistently rank “figuring out which IT solutions can best help my business” as one of their top IT challenges. So, I was interested in talking to Sanjeev Kapoor, Founder and CEO of IT Exchange—whose mission is to help SMBs around the world get access to high quality tech resources. Laurie: Sanjeev, can you start by telling us about why you started IT ...