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By Sol DolorNews, Technology, Tips, Trends

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,...

By Sol DolorNewsramon ray, seth godin

Ramon Ray and Seth Godin to Launch Small Business Essentials on Akimbo

The year 2020 being full of trials and tribulations may be an understatement. As we know, small businesses have experienced major challenges and setbacks while others closed their doors forever. At the same time, brand new businesses have opened their doors in faith. With some of us - ok all of us - ready...

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By Sol DolorCovid19, eCommerce, News, Sales, Technology

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...

By Ramon RayNews

NetSuite Ramps Up To Meet Rapid Change and Uncertainty

Yesterday, NetSuite cofounder Evan Goldberg briefed journalists on how NetSuite is evolving to meet the needs of its customers. CRM, ecommerce, inventory and people management have always been important. However, this year they're more important than ever. Companies, such as NetSuite customers have had to scramble to make rapid change, in the midst of uncertainty,...

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By Sol DolorCovid19, News, TrendsCovid-19

Most Business Leaders Believe 2020 Presidential Election Will Affect Small Businesses

Most business leaders in the US believe that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election will affect their businesses. For its Small Business Recovery Survey, Verizon Business focuses on 600 small and medium businesses that are currently open or are planning to reopen. In addition to the impact of the 2020 presidential election, the study...

By Morgan GertlerNews

QuickBooks Commerce: New Integrated Gamechanger for Businesses

Intuit launched QuickBooks Commerce, a business management platform to help small businesses attract and sell to new customers across multiple channels and ultimately grow their business. Having a small business marketing tool - or a variety of tools - is very important. New Small Business Marketing Tool One of the areas QuickBooks has been focused on...

By Sol DolorGeneral, Marketing, Newsemail marketing

Mailchimp Update Integrates AI capabilities and Smart Tools for Entrepreneurs

The newest Mailchimp update integrates smart features into the marketing platform, including AI capabilities and a suite of familiar tools. Launched this week, the latest Mailchimp update promises smarter marketing for small businesses, including better managing and growing audiences. All in all, Mailchimp is highlighting nine key upgrades in its latest release. Continue reading below to...

By Sol DolorNews, Technologyzoho

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....

By Sol DolorCovid19, News, Operations, TrendsIntuit, Quickbooks

COVID Fuels Small Business Innovation, QuickBooks Study Finds

Some entrepreneurs are looking to small business innovation to stem the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the sector. In the new What’s next for the small business economy? report, Intuit QuickBooks surveyed 965 small business owners to gauge both the state of small business and what’s in its future. It finds some changes that are expected,...

By Sol DolorAdvice, Covid19, NewsCovid-19

Want a Better Community? Support Your Local Business

If you want a better community, you need to put your money where your mouth is. In other words, you need to have a hard look at where you're spending your money. And according to Eric Groves, founder and CEO of Alignable, it better be on local businesses. In a recent conversation with Ramon Ray about...