Follow These Five Tips to Ensure a Happy Holiday for Your Business

By Kimberly Green-Kerr, UScellular Business Solutions and Operations Leader In very welcome news for ecommerce and brick-and-mortar small businesses, many Americans are eager to spend their money during this holiday shopping season. According to a recent report from Deloitte, holiday retail sales are expected to increase by up to 9% from November through January, on top...

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How to Advertise Your Business on TikTok

By Francisco Schmidberger, Co-founder at LINK Agency. Brands are always looking to leverage the latest social media trends to help the success of their marketing and advertising campaigns. Interestingly, compared to Instagram, advertising on TikTok is an even better place to start for every small business, not just those targeting a Generation Z audience. TikTok is...

Think Your SMB Is Too Small for Hackers to Target? It’s Not. Take These 4 Steps to Keep Your Business Safe

By Ron Pelletier, founder and chief customer officer, Pondurance. As the founder of Pondurance, I’ve sat across the table from CEOs and CIOs of many small and midsize businesses who really believe that cybersecurity doesn’t apply to them. They think their data is not valuable enough to steal. They think they’re simply not big enough...

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Top 20 Digital Marketing Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2021-2022

By Suresh Dawmani, a Social Media Manager with Wishup. Business scenarios are changing and growing more competitive post-Covid. As a result, the battle to win a customer's attention is just beginning to get interesting. Digital marketing has an advantage over other marketing channels due to its ease in reaching out to specific audiences. It is also...

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How Small and Medium-sized Businesses Can Transition Into a Hybrid Workforce with Ease

By Eric Yu, Lenovo’s Senior Vice President and General Manager. Remote work is becoming a prevalent norm for the future. In fact, according to a recent Lenovo study, 60 percent of small to medium-sized business (SMB) employees prefer working from home some of the time. The study also says, 70 percent of employees think work...

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Entrepreneur Mindset: The Smart Hustler’s Guide to Growth Despite Stress

By Harmony Major, founder of Radical Growth Guru. Entrepreneur mindset is the talk of the town in small business circles. For smart founders wanting to ditch blocks and boost growth, it’s the “it” thing to master. Indeed, without a flexible attitude and focused relentlessness toward our goals, our businesses will go the way of bulky...

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Discover (Exactly) Why You Keep Procrastinating and Avoiding, Even Though You Wish You’d Stop

By Erin Pheil, founder of The MindFix Group. As entrepreneurs, we regularly run into roadblocks along our journeys. Our job is to identify them, determine strategies to move past them, then move past them. Quite linear and logical, eh? With strategic challenges, this simple formula of "find a fix, and do it" is how we move forward and grow, incrementally. For example, are...

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Why Your Company May Be Failing at Team Building

By Les Pardew, founder of Mystery Escape Room. Many businesses are struggling to find the best way to move forward as some employees return to the workplace while others will continue to work at home or a combination of both. A Gartner Inc. survey finds one-third of business leaders are most concerned with maintaining corporate...

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Your Small Business Can’t Function Without These Tools

When starting a new business, the to-do list is long and humbling. From creating a business plan to doing market research to lining up vendors and so much more. But when it comes to doing the actual work, there are two elements your small business can’t function without: Communication Payment processing Bottom line: You cannot...

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Three Tips for Improving Your Cash Flow (That Really Work)

By Jon Fasoli, VP and Segment Leader, Small Business and Self-Employed Group at Intuit Financial forecasting can be the lifeblood of your business, especially if you want happy employees, a content landlord, and more opportunities to grow. And part of that involves keeping a watchful eye on your cash flow. Money coming in is great but,...