Jeff Goldman

More than three quarters (77 percent) of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) expect at least half of their cyber security needs will be outsourced within the next five years, and 78 percent plan to invest more in cyber security within the next year, according to the results of a recent survey of 850 SMBs […]

Just 36 percent of small businesses have a strategy in place for search engine optimization (SEO), with another 38 percent planning to invest in SEO in the future, a recent Clutch survey of 529 small business owners and managers found. Another 15 percent say they’re unlikely ever to invest in SEO. The most common SEO […]

Forty-eight percent of SMBs say a major data breach would likely shut their business down permanently, according to the results of a recent AppRiver survey of 1,059 cyber security decision makers at SMBs with fewer than 250 employees. In some sectors, that proportion is even higher. Seventy-one percent of financial services and insurance SMBs said […]

Sixty-one percent of small businesses worldwide struggle with cash flow, and 32 percent are unable to pay vendors, repay loans, or pay themselves or their employees as a result, a recent Intuit survey found. The survey of 3,000 small business owners with 0-1,000 employees in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and India also found that 69 percent […]

Almost half (42 percent) of small business owners say they don’t use technology to its full capacity, and 13 percent say they don’t use any technology at all, according to a recent Oasis survey of 289 owners of U.S. businesses with 10 to 99 employees. Ten percent say they limit the use of technology because […]

Both HP and TSYS recently introduced new point-of-sale offerings for small businesses, including new hardware and a new cloud-based solution. HP Engage One Prime HP announced the HP Engage One Prime, an all-in-one solution designed specifically for small and medium sized retail and hospitality businesses. The company also announced a strategic collaboration with PayPal to […]

SMB network security provider Untangle and endpoint protection and remediation provider Malwarebytes this week announced an agreement to integrate Malwarebytes’ Endpoint Protection with Untangle’s Command Center cloud security platform, offering administrators a single pane of glass to manage security orchestration across the network and connected devices. “SMBs have limited resources and need an integrated security solution that is centralized […]

Wix this week introduced Ascend by Wix, a comprehensive platform of 20 products designed to help customers launch, manage and promote businesses directly from the company’s Web development platform. Ascend helps customers promote their sites, manage customer interactions across channels, run marketing campaigns, and capture leads. The offering will be billed as an additional subscription for Wix […]

Ransomware beats viruses and spyware as the most significant threat to small and medium-sized businesses, according to the results of a recent Datto survey of 2,400 managed service providers supporting SMBs. Over 55 percent of managed service providers said their clients had been hit by a ransomware attack in the first six months of 2018, and 35 […]

While 79 percent of SMB employees are in favor of remote, flexible or smart working options, just 9 percent of SMB owners agree, according to the results of a recent Vodafone Ireland survey of 300 employees and 250 business owners at Irish companies with between 10 and 249 employees. One third of SMB employees see smart working […]

Small businesses are being impacted by a constant state of change in the point-of-sale (POS) industry, with new products, partnership and acquisitions announced on an almost daily basis. Here are a few of the key POS news items affecting SMBs over the past couple of weeks. Clover and Nav Clover and Nav this week announced […]

The cyber insurance market for SMBs grew by an average of 69 percent per quarter over the past year, according to the results of a recent study from the online cyber insurance marketplace CyberPolicy. The study also found that customers are requesting higher insurance limits, with fully 90 percent of SMBs buying policies with coverage […]