Only 5% of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) currently use cloud-based hosted voice services as their primary phone system. That means that 95% of SMBs don’t -- leaving money on the table. I believe this surprisingly low adoption rate is due to both lack of awareness and confusion in the …
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New Survey Reveals Importance of Company Culture for Business Strength
The Alternative Board (TAB), an international provider of executive peer advisory boards with over 3,000 members worldwide, recently released the results of their September 2016 Small Business Pulse Survey. If you’ve not yet heard of it, this is a survey that obtained input from hundreds of business …
President Trump: Good or Bad for Small Business?
Whether you were pro-Trump or pro-Clinton leading up to November’s ballot being cast, one thing is clear when it came to the 2016 U.S. presidential election: most everyone had an opinion. And, a lot of times, it was a strong one. Not only did media sources take a firm stance on which candidate …
Creative Ways to Increase Staff Satisfaction
Staff satisfaction is an integral part of any business’s success because there is a direct correlation between happy employees and happy customers. Not only does keeping staff happy improve your financial bottom line by reducing absenteeism and turnover; it also ensures that your customers …
Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Virtual Team
Technology continues to evolve and become more popular every day. Virtual teams are becoming a fact of life and management is being forced to adapt. Virtual teams require different management styles than the typical office team. Team members may be across the state, across the country, or even …
Data Analytics for Small Business: An Interview with Rick Jackson of Qlik
Small business owners everywhere are getting in on the analytics game, even those that wouldn't consider themselves "tech savvy". In this interview with Rick Jackson, Vice President of Marketing at Qlik, a leading visual analytics company headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, we asked him …
