Kim Mays

Eight Reasons Why Cyber Attacks Hit Retailers As so many IT security experts and analysts have preached through the years, small to midsize businesses (SMBs) should be just as concerned with cybersecurity as large enterprises. It seems the warnings are finally sinking in. A recent survey by the Endurance International Group shows that 81 percent […]

Seven Symptoms of Bad Meetings and What You Can Do About Them It’s the one Microsoft Office app that gets a lot of flak—and rightfully so. PowerPoint has made presentations both simple and at times monotonous and lifeless despite someone’s best efforts to jazz it up with flying text, colorful graphics and enough bullet points […]

Considerations for Maintaining Critical Business Continuity Even though 65 percent of small to midsize businesses (SMBs) have set up data backups on premise as part of a business continuity (BC) strategy, the time has come to consider more up-to-date options. Carbonite and IDC recently shared the results of their joint 2015 Business Continuity Study, which […]

Each year since 1963, the President proclaims a week to be designated as Small Business Week. Next week, May 4 through 8, is that week for 2015. Across the U.S., entrepreneurs, business owners and consumers celebrate the contributions that smaller companies make to our economy. The Small Business Administration (SBA) helps organize the celebration, as […]

Five Ways Mobile and Cloud are Helping Build Better Bonds with Customers Creating and maintaining relationships with customers is the basis of the job for those who work in marketing, client relations and sales. For many companies, the success of this also relies on the use of a reputable customer relationship management (CRM) platform, such […]

FEATURE: Top Features SMBs Should Look for in Collaboration Tools Search engine optimization (SEO) rules are confusing, complex and constantly changing. For many businesses, for many reasons, hiring an SEO expert to figure it all out for them is too expensive to even consider. So how do they stay in the know? Luckily, online sources […]

Top Features SMBs Should Look for in Collaboration Tools Gone are the days when a shop owner could lock up the door to the store and head home to their personal life. To many small to midsize business owners today, work is life. Or at least the two intermingle enough that it’s hard to tell […]

Eight Critical Factors for Business Success In 2014, small business owners predicted that they would have a good year with growth, according to a study by BMO Harris Bank. It looks like they predict 2015 to be an even better year. Online small business loan provider, Kabbage, 95 percent of small businesses surveyed “expect to […]

Ten Notable Google Project Management Apps Risk is part of nearly every aspect of business. The daily practices for nearly every employee involve some mitigation of certain risks to keep the business moving forward. Within many enterprises, risk management involves a person or team of individuals who attempt to consider future scenarios and extract possible […]

Fifteen Wi-Fi Predictions for 2015 Retail customers linger longer in stores that provide free Wi-Fi, according to a study by IHL Group and EarthLink Holdings. According to eWeek, Wi-Fi not only entices shoppers, it can provide ways to track traffic in-store as well as which mobile devices are used by customers. Not to mention, the […]

The Future of Fraud: Five E-Commerce Predictions for 2015 E-commerce and mobile devices are making it easier for businesses to sell to a global market. Websites make it easy for shopping to happen in any time zone. Integrated online payment systems can accept and translate currencies. It’s no wonder that IFAC’s Global SMP Survey taken […]

Top Features SMBs Should Look for in Collaboration Tools Before President Obama issued his Transparency and Open Government memorandum in 2009, most businesses didn’t really advertise honest communication as a business process. Since then, though, the word “transparency” has become a popular business topic and has brought many companies to a new way of communicating […]