Pedro Hernandez

Bruised by a fickle economy, small business owners are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel according to the sixth annual Brother Small Business Survey conducted by Wakefield Research. A slim majority of respondents, 54 percent, said they were now interested in “investing more in their business instead of stockpiling cash,” John […]

Xero, the cloud-based accounting software company that originated in New Zealand, is branching out to help small businesses get a better handle on their finances. Now with a new integrated inventory-tracking feature, customers have one less hoop to jump through when they’re balancing the books. “By popular demand,” Xero released a new inventory feature as […]

Small businesses and fledgling development firms often inherently trust the software they run, whether it’s from a third party or developed in-house. The problem, according to Stuart Dross, vice president of worldwide sales for Cigital, a software security testing and consulting firm, is that code can sometimes hide vulnerabilities, which are sometimes placed in the […]

Lots of small business owners flock to WordPress to help establish their companies online. But once they settle in, many of them do little to protect their corner of the Internet, according to a new study from CodeGuard, an Atlanta-based small and midsized business (SMB) cloud backup company. WordPress is an enormously popular open-source content […]

Finally, Allworx Migrate allows existing customers to upgrade to a Connect system. By connecting the old and new systems to a PC, the software completes the transition in a guided manner, transferring their setup without having to start over from scratch. Allworx Connect 731 is scheduled to go on sale in late March, joined by […]

Do your subscribers give your email updates and promotions the cold shoulder? A new analysis from small business online marketing specialist Constant Contact reveals that your customers may suffer from information overload. Over 13 weeks, the company studied 2.1 million customer emails sent to more than 100 recipients to determine the qualities that make up […]

Today’s small and midsized business (SMB) workers toil away in cramped quarters, if they’re even in the office at all. “In fact, just in the last five years, office space per person has gone down by about 40 percent, which means our devices have to have to be smaller to fit into that space,” said […]

Dell is diving headfirst into data security, providing its commercial customers with comprehensive data security right out of the box or as a standalone offering. The Round Rock, Texas-based IT systems and services provider launched Dell Data Protection Endpoint Security Suite (DDP ESS), a new product that integrates malware protection, data encryption, security monitoring and […]

Brother has launched a handful of new desktop scanners for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that help unite paper-based business processes with today’s mobile work styles. The paperless office, despite some valiant efforts, has yet to fully materialize for many small businesses. Workers still end the work day with toner-stained fingers after spending hours handling […]

Building a following on social media is a good way to foster engagement with your customer base and find potential new clients. But are you going about it all wrong? After establishing an online presence—grabbing a domain name, building a website, setting up email, etc.—registering a bunch of social media accounts for your small business […]

As April 15 quickly approaches, small business owners can avoid a lot of stress and a potential visit from tax auditors if they follow some simple advice.  We asked Jonathan Barsade, a former tax attorney and CEO of sales tax specialist Exactor, and small business financial expert and “Neatologist” Carrie Smith, for tips on surviving […]

Big companies aren’t the only ones wrestling with big data. Work documents, images, and videos pile up at today’s data-driven small businesses, faster than they can efficiently and cost-effectively manage with onboard and external storage alone. And then there’s the matter of creating a mobile, collaborative work environment based on secure, file access and sharing—something […]