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By Ramon RayNews

IBM Study Says Working From Home Is a Huge Security Risk

Working from home is awesome. However, for many employees of companies it's a security threat, says an IBM study. The study shows more than 80% of respondents either rarely worked from home or not at all prior to the pandemic, and, in turn, more than half are now doing so with no new security policies...

By Ramon RayNews

TikTok Is Banned In India. Why Owning Your Customer Data Is Critical.

A few years ago I was at a gathering of the National Speakers Association and keynote speaker Jay Bear said don't build your business on rented land. By that he meant, be sure to build your own email list and not just rely on social media. The news of India banning Chinese owned TikTok is...

By Ramon RayNewslinkedin

LinkedIn Boosts Features To Help Businesses Connect, Hire and Learn

Just about every business uses LinkedIn to network with other business owners. However, LinkedIn has so much more features that can benefit your business. First is LinkedIn events, it's a powerful tool to get your community excited about your events. LinkedIn says they recently integrated LinkedIn Events into the Pages experienceto help you strengthen relationships...

By Ramon RayNewsnetsuite

Need Help Tracking Your Businesses ReOpening? NetSuite Can Help

Opening your business, especially if it's a bigger company has a lot of challenges. You've got to track a lot of details that you normally would not have thought it. NetSuite recently announced a solution. Just a few things you might need to keep track of, that NetSuite's new app covers is: Case Management: Helps...

By Ramon RayNews

Small Biz Can More Easily Deliver Their Products Thanks to Square

Now even small companies can offer deliver service to their customers, thanks to Square. E-commerce is relatively easy to setup, but it's a bit more challenge to offer deliver options. Recently Square announced the availability of on-demand delivery for Square Online Store. In this challenging new business environment, it’s more important than ever that sellers...

By Ramon RayCovid19, Newscoronavirus, zoho

Non-Profits Should Take Advantage of Free Help From Tech Companies

Non-profits always get discounted or free help. However, in these VERY challenging times, non-profits might snag some extra special deals from companies, especially if they're mission is related to helping during the Covid19 shelter in place circumstances. There's a lot of companies helping non-profits, one is Zoho who is focused on not only giving their...

By Ramon RayNewscoronavirus

Funding Beyond PPP – Visa Grant Helps Female Founders

There's so much media coverage on PPP and other government funding, however, remember there's many grants (not loans) available to smaller businesses as well such as a Visa grant. Visa and iFundWomen recently awarded $10,000, each, to four women. To help small business owners – particularly female entrepreneurs who already face funding challenges – Visa and...

By Ramon RayGeneral, News

Vista Print Study Says American Entrepreneurs Feel More Motivated to Run their Business in 2020

Starting and growing a business day to day is NOT easy. As Mark Cuban references on Shark Tank, it's a grind that you have to love. I've started four companies and sold two of them and know the pain and the joy. Check out this report on a study from Vistaprint. The passion for running a...

By Ramon RayNewswomen

Gender Discrimination Causes Women To Start their Own Business

This is a new angle for sure. Who would have thought that one of the results of increases in gender discrimination over the years and more so increase in its awareness, causes more and more women to start their own businesses. FreshBooks today announced results from its second annual Women in the Independent Workforce Report, the only...

By Ramon RayMarketing, News

Is PowerPoint Dead? Canva Presentaions Thinks So.

For years many of us have created our "Power Points" using Microsoft PowerPoint. Increasingly more and more companies are enabling people to create digital slides without Power Point. These new slides are often easier to use than than Power Point and often look better. Canva recently launched a new presentation experience which enables you to use Canva...