RECENT ARTICLES
Remote Workforce Management with Mobile Time Tracking
Remote workforce management is a must today. The coronavirus pandemic has changed a number of things about how our society functions and the organization of work life has certainly not escaped this tendency. A recent Gallup poll released in August of 2020 found that remote work days for U.S. workers has more than doubled...
How AT&T is Supporting Small Businesses
Chris Donan works for AT&T Business as the VP of Business Sales. His job is to serve small, medium-sized businesses across the United States. He has the responsibility of leading and working alongside 1,300 solutions and technology specialists that work directly with small businesses. They also support their needs through the COVID-19 crisis. Small...
5G Is Big Business for These NJ Small Businesses
5G is still a very burgeoning technology for most of us. However, there's a few small businesses, thanks to Verizon, who are dipping their toe in the water of 5G success! Verizon and TechUnited are teaming up with small businesses to find ways that 5G technology can help solve some of their operational pain points...
Seize Holiday Sales 2020 Opportunities Using These Insights from Visa
Holiday sales 2020 prospects remain high for the most prepared small businesses despite COVID-19, a recent Visa study reveals. The Visa Back to Business Study: Holiday Edition finds that despite the pandemic, 88% of consumers plan to go holiday shopping this year. For the report, Visa surveyed people in eight markets, including the US, Canada,...
Square Launches Self-Ordering System for Restaurants Powered by QR codes
Square is giving food businesses a new way to thrive during the pandemic through its launch of a self-ordering system for restaurants powered by QR codes. The self-serve ordering system powered by Square Online makes the ordering experience more efficient. Clients scan the restaurant’s QR code on their personal devices. The code leads the user...
Creating Diversity in Tech: Elevating People of Color
The field of technology is constantly changing and growing. But historically this industry has had a lack of diversity in the people who make it up. But there's one person specifically who wants to help create more diversity in tech. And, he wants to make it more possible for lack, Latinx, and Native American...
Support from Dell for Small Business: Uplifting Your People & Maximizing Resources
Erik Day from Dell spoke about small business technology at the Survive and Thrive Summit, hosted and produced by Ramon Ray of Smart Hustle Media. The first two Summits were held virtually in April and August 2020. The next one will be in the spring of 2021. Stay tuned! Erik has been at Dell for...
Zoho Workplace Reimagines Business Context and Continuity Across Apps
The latest update to Zoho Workplace has brought a focus on business context and continuity to the productivity, collaboration, and communication platform. Zoho Workplace is a suite of nine technology tools, which are integrated to their users’ business processes. It’s essentially a platform that ensures all its component apps are working perfectly with each other....
Digital Transformation Is Crucial for Longevity, According to Cisco Study
A new study reveals just how much the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating small business digital transformation. With this modernization increasingly becoming a necessity, both networking giant Cisco and market intelligence firm IDC recommend eight steps entrepreneurs can take now. These insights are from the 2020 Small Business Digital Maturity Study, commissioned by Cisco. IDC’s analysis...
Thriving Small Businesses Often Have This Trait, Says NetSuite Leader
What’s one trait that thriving small businesses often have? Ranga Bodla says that from interactions with countless businesses, the successful ones often have one characteristic that stands out. Ranga heads industry marketing at Oracle NetSuite. The technology giant’s arm makes a host of applications for small- and medium-sized enterprises. As such, the leader has been...
Better Customer Loyalty Programs Through a POS System
SmartHustle Podcast with Ramon Ray · Better Customer Loyalty Through a POS System Lazy Bean Cafe understood what it needed to keep the doors open and run a successful business: customer loyalty. Nothing beats consistent, habitual customers. The one that comes in for their coffee every day will help you get a consistent base of...
Twitter Hack Shows Many Hackers Appear Sweet and Nice. Be Wary.
WSJ reports that hackers "broke" into Twitter's security by some simple, but effective, social engineering. Sometimes people call one person, "sweet talk them" and get a bit of information. They use that information to get to the next person and get high level access. When you get a phone call asking for information, any information,...