Adequate cash flow is always crucial to business sustainability—and even more important in the face of COVID-19 and the havoc it is wreaking on businesses and individuals. Dell Technologies recently announced $9 billion in special financing to help its partners to weather this storm. Many of Dell’s partners are small and medium businesses (SMBs) themselves—and many more provide sales and sup...
Author: Laurie McCabe
Striven Strives for Success in the Small Business Management Cloud Software Market
Building market momentum for a new business management ERP-type of solution is never easy, even in good times. These days, its particularly challenging. But that hasn’t stopped Striven, which provides a fully integrated all-in-one software system for small businesses, from moving ahead. Below is my conversation with Scott Hammer, Marketing Manager of Str...
Payroll Protection Loan Blues? Be Ready for the Next Round with This Free Tool
If you’ve tried to submit a Paycheck Protection Loan (PPL) application over the last week, it’s likely that you’ve noticed how broken the system is. Especially because you’re having to find a lender who is accepting loan applications and deal with SBA red tape. A lucky few have been able to move fast and gained access to their slice of the nearly $350 billion allocated to this program. Now, ...
Paving a Path to Digital Transformation for Your Business
More than 80% of small and medium business decision-makers agree or strongly agree that digital technology is impacting their businesses and industries. But as we discussed in this post, getting started on the path to digital transformation isn’t easy: only 24% of SMBs are cu...
Salesforce Launches Salesforce Care Small Business Grants to Help Small Businesses Weather COVID-19
COVID-19 has unleashed a medical and economic tsunami upon the world. SMB Group’s Impact of COVID-19 on SMBs Study shows that businesses of all sizes are feeling the pain of the pandemic.
Free eBook Now Available: Survey Results on The Impact of COVID-19 on SMBs
COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus, is having a devastating effect on small and medium businesses (SMBs)—the engine of the U.S. economy and those around the world. But how deep and broad is the impact? SMB Group is providing answers to this question in our new, free eBook, sponsored by our partners, Acumat...
Making Work at Home Work for Your Company: Advice from Wrike’s Andrew Filev
COVID-19 has disrupted our lives unprecedented ways. Many of us have been working under stay at home conditions for a month or more. We know the pandemic will eventually abate, but we don’t know how quickly this will happen, or how the crisis will reshape the “new” normal over time.
Measuring the Impact of Covid-19 on SMBs: Preliminary SMB Group Survey Results
We all know from personal experience and the news that Covid-19, also known as coronavirus, is having a devastating effect on small and medium businesses (SMBs)—the engine of the U.S. economy and those around the world. But how deep and broad is the impact? We’ve sought to answer that question in a survey of over 500 SMB (1-1,000 employee businesses) and midmarket (1,000-2,500 employee busin...
What is Digital Transformation—and Why is it Important for Your Business?
As technology innovation accelerates, it can be difficult to keep up with new jargon—let alone figure out whether the latest bright and shiny buzzwords are relevant for your business.
How Xero is Adjusting Customer Experience in a World That’s Gone Sideways
We are all reeling from the impact of the coronavirus. The new normal isn’t what anyone wants—or probably could have even envisioned. What worked a few weeks ago—in our personal lives and our businesses—likely won’t work now. As I discussed in this post, all companies need to figur...