Pedro Hernandez

Reach150 has gone mobile with a new app that adds a social, as-it-happens twist to the referral management platform. The new Reach150 Mobile App for both iOS (currently available) and Android (coming soon), helps real estate agents, lawyers, and practically all “people in relationship businesses” validate their expertise and bolster their professional reputations on a […]

Hootsuite launched a free version of its Campaigns social media engagement and lead generation software platform, allowing small business marketers and owner/operators to kick off their promotional efforts with ease. Last year Hootsuite acquired Campaigns from BrightKit, a social media marketing specialist. Describing the software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering as an enterprise-grade product, Hootsuite boasted at the […]

Running a small business is hard enough without internal struggles and cumbersome sales processes. Fortunately Hampus Jakobsson, founder and CEO of Brisk, a maker of sales-process-and-optimization software, offers insight on making sales professionals, their bosses, and ultimately their customers, happy. Small business sales professionals are often at odds both with their higher-ups and with their […]

Tired of waiting to get paid? Now businesses that use QuickBooks don’t have to put their growth plans on hold until their clients decide to pay up. Intuit, makers of the popular QuickBooks accounting software, today announced a partnership with Fundbox that helps bridge the “working capital gap” for small businesses waiting for outstanding invoices […]

Citrix is better known for its virtual desktop technologies and as a provider of mobile workspaces for enterprises. But tucked into the company’s vast product portfolio you’ll find ShareFile, a secure, cloud-based file sync, share, and collaboration platform for businesses of all sizes. Describing it as a “built-for-business version of Dropbox,” Trevor Jones, vertical director […]

Moovweb, a San Francisco-based mobile Web specialist, is tackling one of the most frustrating issues faced by ecommerce companies: abandoned shopping carts. In the rush to make their sites mobile-friendly, many online shopkeepers neglect a vital part of the buying process, according to Haresh Kumar, vice president of marketing at Moovweb. The mobile checkout process […]

The Wix Web-development firm wants small business owners to put away their HTML guides and CSS tutorials. The company just launched a new editor and design toolset that produces professional-level small business websites and requires no meddling with the underlying code. There is no shortage of drag-and-drop website builders, Eric Mason, director of strategic marketing […]

The good news is that most small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are optimistic about their growth prospects. The bad news is that IT is getting left behind. This past summer, Spiceworks surveyed 839 IT professionals in the United States and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for its State of IT report for 2016. […]

Teleconferencing and voice over IP (VoIP) communications company, Iotum, relaunched FreeConference.com this month, breathing new life into the pioneering service that first appeared in the year 2000. “FreeConference.com was the original free audio bridge,” Jason Martin, CEO of Iotum, told Small Business Computing. “It created the vertical; it created this market.” Indeed, as a cursory […]

Office 2016 is finally available for Windows (Windows 7 and up), and as with any major software launch, if offers plenty of new features and capabilities to pore through. This time around, Microsoft boasts that the productivity software more tightly integrates with enterprise security, mobile device management, and collaboration platforms. This ensures that teams or […]

Small business owners are feeling better about their prospects according to new research from American Express OPEN, the card issuer’s small business community and resource site. First, the small business financing drought and cash-crunch caused by the Great Recession has eased. An overwhelming majority of small business owners (93 percent) said they were confident they […]

During last year’s SAP Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Fla., the German business software giant launched Simple Finance. The offering harnesses real-time analytics, accounting, and planning into a suite of tools aimed at helping businesses to not only keep an eye on their finances, but to also improve them. “Delivered in SAP Cloud powered by […]