by Celine Matthiessen | Jul 10, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SMBs
Microsoft recently announced three new tools they are rolling out to Office 365 Premium small business subscribers and to everyone by end of the year. Currently Microsoft offers 365 small biz subscribers a booking tool and customer management tools that keep them in...
by Suzanne Ackley | Feb 22, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
Email marketing is a low cost and target rich way for small businesses to market and communicate with current and potential customers without breaking their small advertising budgets. According to our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses,...
by Celine Matthiessen | Mar 31, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
According to our Local Commerce Monitor™ data the main driver of adoption of new technology for SMBs is cost and ease of use. Ascend2 and Research Partners in their recent State of Digital Marketing/SMB Benchmarks 2016 look deeper into the what and why SMBs...
by Suzanne Ackley | Mar 23, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
When it comes to choosing media for advertising or promotion, small businesses that use co-op advertising programs are like other SMBs in our Local Commerce Monitor survey — a Facebook page is the most used. As shown in the chart below, SMBs that use co-op...
by Celine Matthiessen | Mar 3, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
Only 45% of SMBs track analytics and the others give the reason that they don’t have time, experience or budget to track analytics according to an infographic from SCORE.org. In our Local Commerce Monitor 19 survey of small businesses, SMBs say they want to use...
