Tag: Small Business

Salesforce’s Strategy to Bring Game Changing Technologies to SMBs

Salesforce’s Strategy to Bring Game Changing Technologies to SMBs

This is part two of a two-part blog series discussing Salesforce.com’s strategy to help SMBs better capitalize on technology. Part One, California Dreaming? Salesforce’s Dreamforce SMB Story, provides perspectives from several Salesforce SMB customers. This second

Why Vendor Definitions of SMB Size Matter

Why Vendor Definitions of SMB Size Matter

The SMB "market" actually represents a very diverse, fragmented collection of businesses—from solopreneurs running home-based lifestyle businesses, to mom-and-pop shops, to fast-growth startups, to midmarket firms who've been in business 30-plus years—as well many more permutations and combinations. While all sorts of segmentation nuances must be considered, technology vendors most often use e...

SMB Technology: Mind, Matter, Money–and the Cloud

SMB Technology: Mind, Matter, Money–and the Cloud

SMB Group recently wrapped up our 2014 Small and Medium Business Routes to Market Study, in which we looked how U.S. SMB (small businesses are defined as those with 1-99 employees, medium businesses as those with 100-999 employees) technology adoption and the buying cycle in ten key solution areas. As part of this study, we gather SMB perspectives their top business ch...