LinkedIn Makes Helped Wanted Signs for Businesses to Attract Job Seekers
LinkedIn is helping businesses print signage to let the public know that they're hiring - use a short link or QR code! See full blog post from LinkedIn here
Small Biz Beware: Cyber Security is More Important than You Think
Small businesses should be afraid, very afraid. Especially if cyber security is a second, third, or fourth thought. Hackers are out there and the do not play fairly. They want your data, your money, and anything else they can get their electronic fingers on. Who’s Being Attacked? While we hear about big business breaches on a...
7 Things. Customer Service Is and Will Always Be Most Important – #SMMW2019 #SMMW19
I got back earlier this morning from Social Media Marketing World 2019, in San Diego. It was epic and in fact I already bought my ticket for 2020. Beyond the networking and connecting with a plethora of amazing people, I learned a lot. Andrew and Pete stressed that we cannot do everything. Instead focus on...
Square takes on Shopify with new micro-merchant tools @Square
Eleven months since acquiring website-builder Weebly for $365 million, Square is ready to unveil a full-fledged online storefront for its sellers—the company’s first major foray into e-commerce. Powered by Weebly technology that has been woven into the Square payments ecosystem, Square Online Store offers merchants the option to sell through their own digital storefronts. It boasts...
Pitney Bowes Enters into Small and Medium Business Financing with Wheeler Financial @pitneybowes
Many companies are offering financing solutions to growing businesses. It's NOT just banks - but in my in-box also PayPal, American Express, Kabbage, OnDeck and more. Now, Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI), a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the areas of ecommerce, shipping, mailing, finance, and data, today announced Wheeler Financial from Pitney...
How To Grow Your Solo Business and Live the Life You Want.
This advice is for small giants, solo business owners, coaches, consultants, service providers. You are generating *hundreds of thousands to a million or so in revenue as a solo business. You want to work from home, or in a small office. You don't want 500 employees! Over the past few months, I've seen a growth spurt in my...
B2B Business Discovery Is Made Simple with the Launch of @Koble 2.0
Koble, a business-to-business discovery platform, announced today the launch of Koble 2.0 for iPhone and Android. With Koble 2.0, finding the right small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to do business with as a fellow SMB or global corporation becomes as simple as a swipe of the thumb. More than 11 million business pages are now publicly visible...
ReadWrite Acquires SmallBizTechnology
ReadWrite, Inc., a technology and business publisher, has acquired the small business technology publication smallbiztechnology.com. The two sites will retain separate leadership teams to ensure editorial independence while cooperating to cover trends in the tech and business sectors. Entrepreneur and author Ramon Ray launched smallbiztechnology.com in 1999 as a resource for all things small business. Founded as a paper newsletter for Ray’s...
Can SMBs and ‘Big Business’ Be The Perfect Business Partners?
Connecting Small Business Vendors with the Fortune 1000 Could Re-Channel Global B2B Sales With Valentine’s Day spotlighting personal relationships last month, this time of year can also be the right time to focus on cultivating better business relationships. For big corporations and small businesses, that often means building connections with other companies that look a lot...
Ramon Tours An Amazon Fulfillment Center. Success Story of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.
Millions of people order millions of things from Amazon.com. It's the default "app" we use to order just about everything. One pair of socks. 3 bundles of paper towels. 50 baseballs. Whatever we want we order it from Amazon. But there's not many people, comparatively, who've been INSIDE of an Amazon fulfillment center to see how...