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Chatbots are Coming
According to VentureBeat, chatbots have a place in small business. Chatbots can be use for quick responses to easy customer service questions and they be utilized to help ecommerce sales.
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Group Coverage Back on Rise
Thanks to a growing economy and shrinking labor pool, many businesses have reinstate group healthcare coverage, reports the Wall Street Journal. Small businesses that migrated away from offering group coverage at the start of the Affordable Care Act are now coming back to offering group coverage as a retain or recruit employees.
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Clinton Courts Small Business
According to CBS News, Hillary Clinton wants to make it easier to start a small business. Under her plan state and federal governments would offer incentives and make the licensing procedure more streamlined.
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Over 90% of Small- to Medium-Sized Businesses Currently Use Cloud Hosting or Say They Plan To
According to industry analysts, the Clutch survey findings are indicative of a necessary trend, who suggest the transition to cloud hosting services is a good strategic move for SMBs.
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Getting Small Business to Switch to Windows 10
According to ZD Net, only 5 percent of small/mid-size business are running the Windows Enterprise version. Microsoft wants to change that with their Windows 10 Enterprise Edition. The new Enterprise additions will offer attractive subscription rates for small businesses.
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Delay in Payments Harm Small Business
Small businesses are feeling the pinch as more customers take longer to pay, reports Tucson.com. Recently, businesses are seeing an uptick in customers taking several months to pay their bills, which in turn makes it harder for that business to pay its bills in a timely fashion.
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5 Challenges Every Minority/Women Owned Business Must Hurdle
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of minority- and women-owned businesses is on the rise. There are now nearly 10 million women-owned firms in the country, which is a 2 million firm increase in the last five years. With minority-owned businesses also on the rise, they now make up over 8 percent of the firms in the country. What many people don’t realize is that for a minority- and women-owned business to succeed, they have to overcome some common challenges.
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Business Owners Rank Top Tech Tools for 2016
Small business owners have ranked their favorite tech tools and apps in SurePayroll’s third annual favorite tech tools survey, part of the July 2016 SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard®.
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Bringing High Speed Internet to Small Business
Google Fiber has plans to help small businesses get high speed internet, reports Endgadget. For cities that are slated to get the high speed access small businesses can sign up for an Early Access program. The programs provide three tiers of high speed internet at varying costs that should guarantee that small businesses can get the high speed service they want at a price they can afford.
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States Choose Big Business Over Small
According to CNBC.com, while government lauds small businesses as the backbone of America, when it comes to time to hand out money, states inevitably choose to give funds to large businesses.
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