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For Hospitality, Grocery and Postec Partener updatesIs Your Business Ready To Switch To EMV?
Does your store's payment-processing hardware have a handwritten sign sticking out of the chip-card reader insert that says, "Chip coming soon?" Chip cards, the most recent development in secure payment-processing technology, make it harder for counterfeiters to forge...
read moreMarketing Tips You’ll Be Thankful For
Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday, oh my! That's a lot of emails and promotions directed at your customers. Say you're a small business owner with a brick and mortar shop or eatery. You don't sell anything online. Perhaps you're thinking that...
read moreWhy Small Businesses Should Hire Veterans
Is your small business hiring? Consider hiring a veteran? Sure, you may have heard that the the veteran unemployment rate mirrors the current national trend of low unemployment. That's the good news. The bad news, however, is labor statistics don't always pull back...
read moreCash Flow Management Tips for Small Business Owners
Suppose your small business earned $500,000 in revenue this year, compared to $300,000 last year. That's great news, right? Not necessarily. A business that does $300,000 in sales may profit handsomely, say, to the tune of $200,000, whereas a $500,000 business can...
read moreRunning Your Business In The Cloud Vs. On-Site: Which POS Is Better For You?
"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise." --Henry David Thoreau For many small business owners, Thoreau was on to something. It turns out that having...
read moreThe Best Marketing Tips For Small Businesses
What exactly is marketing? Is it simply having a logo? And maybe storefront signage? Does your website and print collateral (postcards and flyers) count as marketing, too? The answer is yes to all the above. Sure, having a catchy, memorable logo helps. But that's not...
read moreWhat Are The Benefits of Accepting Credit Cards At Your Business?
Are small businesses that don’t accept credit cards as rare as a northern White Rhino? Believe it or not, businesses that are cash-only are far from an endangered species. In fact, according to the National Federation of Independent Business, more small businesses...
read moreHow To Get People To Open Your Emails This Holiday Season
The average person receives over 100 emails per day. That's a lot of people you're competing against if you're sending emails. Granted, email marketing is easier for getting the message out about your business than other forms of marketing. Take for instance, paid...
read moreHow To Market Your Business On Halloween
When you think of major holidays, Halloween probably doesn’t make the cut. But does that mean that the seemingly frivolous child-centric holiday can’t help lead to more sales for your business? If statistics revealed by the National Retail Federation (NRF) mean...
read morePay It Forward: How To Help Other Small Businesses Affected By Disaster
The economic impact of Hurricanes Florence and Michael will exceed $100 billion. Obviously, the biggest tragedy of catastrophic weather events are loss of life. Small businesses also fail to survive extreme weather events. In fact, according to statistics by the...
read moreCash Register Training Tips For New Hires
The latest and greatest POS systems can do everything from track inventory and employee hours; provide analytics and sales data; manage a loyalty rewards program, and much much more. POS systems can also, of course, take orders, process both credit card and cash...
read moreHow To Get The Most Out of Your Employees
Long gone are the days when it was enough to reward your top worker with an employee of the month parking space. To maximize employee performance, that's just not going to cut it anymore. But employees by and large still prefer to be lauded and praised for their...
read moreTech Solutions That Can Help Grow Your Restaurant
According to a recent report released by the National Restaurant Association, "Mapping the Restaurant Technology Landscape," approximately four in five restaurant operators believe technology can boost profits and efficiency for their restaurants as well as provide a...
read moreHow To Use Social Media To Market Your Business in 2018
If you tweet in the forest and no one is around to retweet, does your tweet make a sound? Forgive the social media philosophical thought experiment (and meager analogy).... But let's say you are the proprietor of a small brick-and-mortar shop with hardly any...
read moreCustomer Experience (Cx) Day Ideas for Your Business
Tuesday, October 2nd, is the sixth annual Customer Experience Day (CX Day). In light of this, how can restaurants and retail shops show appreciation for their patrons? Before answering this question, though, doesn't the question itself sound a bit trite? After all,...
read moreHow To Find Cash To Expand Your Business
Perhaps you're the proprietor of a relatively new neighborhood coffee shop, restaurant or retail store that's doing extremely well. Or maybe you have a food truck and can barely keep up with demand. Time to expand? If you have a strong feeling that your business can...
read moreTips for Finding Seasonal Workers
Although the summer season sees the largest boost in seasonal employment, the winter holidays also see a big boost in temporary hiring. And now with college kids back at school and beach towns quieting down, it's time to start thinking forward in case you need to hire...
read moreHow To Hire and Manage Generation Z
Now that you know how to market to Generation Z, the youngest albeit highly-influential group of consumers, do you know how to hire and manage young adults? Considering that virtually everyone who was born after 1997 was raised with WiFi, if you want to hire anyone in...
read moreIs Your Business Ready To Switch To EMV?
Does your store's payment-processing hardware have a handwritten sign sticking out of the chip-card reader insert that says, "Chip coming soon?" Chip cards, the most recent development in secure payment-processing technology, make it harder for counterfeiters to forge...
Marketing Tips You’ll Be Thankful For
Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday, oh my! That's a lot of emails and promotions directed at your customers. Say you're a small business owner with a brick and mortar shop or eatery. You don't sell anything online. Perhaps you're thinking that...
Why Small Businesses Should Hire Veterans
Is your small business hiring? Consider hiring a veteran? Sure, you may have heard that the the veteran unemployment rate mirrors the current national trend of low unemployment. That's the good news. The bad news, however, is labor statistics don't always pull back...
Cash Flow Management Tips for Small Business Owners
Suppose your small business earned $500,000 in revenue this year, compared to $300,000 last year. That's great news, right? Not necessarily. A business that does $300,000 in sales may profit handsomely, say, to the tune of $200,000, whereas a $500,000 business can...
Running Your Business In The Cloud Vs. On-Site: Which POS Is Better For You?
"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise." --Henry David Thoreau For many small business owners, Thoreau was on to something. It turns out that having...
The Best Marketing Tips For Small Businesses
What exactly is marketing? Is it simply having a logo? And maybe storefront signage? Does your website and print collateral (postcards and flyers) count as marketing, too? The answer is yes to all the above. Sure, having a catchy, memorable logo helps. But that's not...
What Are The Benefits of Accepting Credit Cards At Your Business?
Are small businesses that don’t accept credit cards as rare as a northern White Rhino? Believe it or not, businesses that are cash-only are far from an endangered species. In fact, according to the National Federation of Independent Business, more small businesses...
How To Get People To Open Your Emails This Holiday Season
The average person receives over 100 emails per day. That's a lot of people you're competing against if you're sending emails. Granted, email marketing is easier for getting the message out about your business than other forms of marketing. Take for instance, paid...
How To Market Your Business On Halloween
When you think of major holidays, Halloween probably doesn’t make the cut. But does that mean that the seemingly frivolous child-centric holiday can’t help lead to more sales for your business? If statistics revealed by the National Retail Federation (NRF) mean...
Pay It Forward: How To Help Other Small Businesses Affected By Disaster
The economic impact of Hurricanes Florence and Michael will exceed $100 billion. Obviously, the biggest tragedy of catastrophic weather events are loss of life. Small businesses also fail to survive extreme weather events. In fact, according to statistics by the...
