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By Ramon RayNewsIntuit

Mastercard Offers More To Its Business Customers, Including QuickBooks Offering

The credit card business is competitive and brands are fighting to offer as much as they can to their small businesses customers. Credit card companies want to be more than transactional relationships but a part of the growth of their customers' journey. Announced today Mastercard is partnering with Intuit to offer 50% off to it's...

By Ramon RayNewsvideo

How Modell’s CEO Used Video and Over Communication To Resurrect Itself

Everyone in the New York area knows the Modell's iconic brand. It's where you go to get every kind of sports and athletic wear you need. Like many retailers, Modell's future was (and is) challenged by Amazon and shifting consumer purchase buying patterns. The Wall Street Journal reports that then Modell's hired a company to...

By Ramon RayNewsfacebook

Ignore the Masses, Focus On the Niches. Facebook’s New Design Hearkens This.

If you've been following digital marketing trends over the past few months you know there's a big shift towards going NICHE and NARROW and not broad, to the masses. Of course Seth Godin has been touting this for years, now the rest of the world is catching up. I write about this quite a bit...

By Ramon RayNews

CapitalOne’s Small Business Growth Index Is Out @CapitalOne

Capital One released the findings of our most recent Small Business Growth Index survey, examining small business owner sentiment, as well as concerns related to the economy, hiring and technology. According to the survey, nearly half (49%) of small business owners (SBOs) are concerned about the impact a potential recession could have on their business....

By Ramon RayNews

Self Employment Will Grow In 2021 According to @Freshbooks Study

FreshBooks, released results from its third annual study, “Self-Employment in America Report 2019.” The report reveals that 24 million Americans want to leave traditional employment to become their own boss by 2021, but face barriers to making the leap. The full report is available here. FreshBooks partnered with leading market research provider Dynata to collect data...

By Ramon RayNewsCRM, email marketing

ActiveCampaign Brings Multichannel Integrated Marketing for Small Businesses with Conversations @activecampaign

From ActiveCampaign - ActiveCampaign a sales and marketing automation service for small businesses announced the general availability of Conversations, unlocking multichannel communications to influence the entire customer experience. Now, small businesses can seamlessly bring their Conversations into ActiveCampaign and leverage its industry-leading automations to create unique experiences for each customer. Conversations gives small businesses an easy...

By Ramon RayNews

LinkedIn Makes Helped Wanted Signs for Businesses to Attract Job Seekers

LinkedIn is helping businesses print signage to let the public know that they're hiring - use a short link or QR code! See full blog post from LinkedIn here

By Ramon RayNews

Square takes on Shopify with new micro-merchant tools @Square

Eleven months since acquiring website-builder Weebly for $365 million, Square is ready to unveil a full-fledged online storefront for its sellers—the company’s first major foray into e-commerce. Powered by Weebly technology that has been woven into the Square payments ecosystem, Square Online Store offers merchants the option to sell through their own digital storefronts. It boasts...

By Ramon RayNews

Pitney Bowes Enters into Small and Medium Business Financing with Wheeler Financial @pitneybowes

Many companies are offering financing solutions to growing businesses. It's NOT just banks - but in my in-box also PayPal, American Express, Kabbage, OnDeck and more. Now, Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI), a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the areas of ecommerce, shipping, mailing, finance, and data, today announced Wheeler Financial from Pitney...

By Ramon RayNews

B2B Business Discovery Is Made Simple with the Launch of @Koble 2.0

Koble, a business-to-business discovery platform, announced today the launch of Koble 2.0 for iPhone and Android. With Koble 2.0, finding the right small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to do business with as a fellow SMB or global corporation becomes as simple as a swipe of the thumb. More than 11 million business pages are now publicly visible...