The Hub: Small and Medium Business Insights

Our mission on The Hub is to educate, inform and help provide knowledge to Small and Medium business owners. We have a team of experts that will feature articles, strategies and cutting edge insights for building and growing your small or medium business. The topics will cover a range of products and services with a technology prospective that are being used in the business environment and across multiple business verticals.

 

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12/01/2021

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SSO 1.7.0 BizPrint Update
BizPrint Cloud 1.7.0 Feature Updates

BizPrint is our cloud printing solution which currently connects to WooCommerce through the Print Manager Plugin. We continue to invest [...]

27
Sep
WooCommerce Automation Plugins
5 Essential WooCommerce Automation Plugins for Your Online Store

How can you automate processes in your WooCommerce store? As an online store owner, you’re open for business around the [...]

16
Sep
BizSwoop launches a SaaS Cloud Printing Service BizPrint

BizSwoop launches a SaaS Cloud Printing Service BizPrint to provide instant & automatic printing for WooCommerce. Automatically print orders anywhere [...]

21
Apr
How To Increase Wholesale B2B Sales

Wholesale businesses have traditionally been complex operations with many business systems. In the last few years owners have found ways [...]

20
Jan
You asked. We listened. Bundles are here!

Today, we would like to introduce plugin bundles. Plugin bundles offer a cost effective way to purchase our most popular [...]

03
Sep
BizStore for Restaurants Goes Live

We hope this update finds our community of users, developers and customers healthy and safe. We understand many of you [...]

20
Aug
Managing Sales Teams in a Digital World

TECHNOLOGY has undoubtedly revolutionized the sales world, creating myriads of new opportunities and changing the way we work. Your sales [...]

Top Tips For Top Quality WordPress Plugins

WORDPRESS users are spoilt for choice when it comes to loading their sites up with helpful tools, fun widgets, and [...]

How Technological Change Is Impacting Daily Business Activity

TOP technology can help put your business on the fast track to success, keeping you ahead of competitors and cutting [...]

How Online Ordering is Changing The Restaurant Business

DIGITAL disruption has hit the restaurant business in a big way – opening up great new revenue streams for owners [...]

Own Your Own Tech

WEBSITES – love them or hate them, no small business can afford to be without one. But you are a [...]

Business Technology Services

Technology is an important tool in building a business today. After reviewing your current technology being used, our teams will [...]

Digital Marketing Services

Our world is online, businesses need to be online too building an identity and a brand that customers can experience. [...]

Infrastructure Technology Services

The health of a business can often be defined by the operational strategy, do the people, process and technology all [...]

Small and Medium Business Insights

Our mission on The Hub is to educate, inform and help provide knowledge to Small and Medium business owners. We have a [...]

Hiring a Technology Manager

As businesses grow and evolve companies are finding they have to hire a technology manager. This is a person who [...]

Making the Most of Co-Working Space

It is summer. Now the kids are home all day, and your home office has been taken over by art [...]

Hello Akron

We are very excited to announce BizSwoop is opening a brand new location in Akron, Ohio. We are looking forward [...]

Creating a Growth Plan

When you started your business you knew that it needed to grow. To increase the chances for growth you created [...]

Small Businesses and Technology Tune Out

Technology moves so fast that everyone struggles to keep up. Before everyone even understands how their new software works properly [...]

Surviving Burnout

When you started your business you were passionately obsessed with your mission. You survived on Nitro coffee and pizza while [...]

WordPress Wrap Up

Over the past few weeks we have covered WordPress topics, including our own newly released plugins. This week we wanted [...]

WordPress Plug Ins

Last week we discussed what WordPress is and how it can be a great way to build a website for [...]

WordPress Basics

It is almost impossible for a business to be successful these days without a website. Small businesses rely on a [...]

When to Hire Employees

You are an entrepreneur. Maybe you are a one person business. Or maybe there are just a few of you. [...]

Technology in 2019

Technology moves and changes so rapidly, and it is important for small businesses to know what this means for them. [...]

2019 Small Business Resolutions

2018 is almost done, and it is time to think ahead to the next year. Every year brings up and [...]

The End of Year Bonus and Small Businesses

It is that time of year. The one where you know your employees are wondering what, if anything, will be [...]

Managing Employee Conflict

Even if you check and double check that employees mesh with your company culture you are sure to encounter employee [...]

Making the Workplace Family Friendly

As times change and in most families both parents have to work, families are looking at new jobs through a [...]

Transitioning Employees to Remote Positions

In 2017, according to Gallup, 40% of American workers were working from home at least part of the time. The [...]

Technology at the Point of Sale

Imagine the lunch rush at a busy casual restaurant. The line is moving slowly while employees manage taking counter orders, [...]

Marketing Technology for Small Businesses

One of the hardest parts of running a small business is balancing all of the needs and skills with a [...]

Working with Interns

Now that we have explained how to hire interns and a basic outline of what an intern can and can’t [...]

Hiring Interns for Small Businesses

As college is back in session, it is time for students to start looking for work to boost both their [...]

Surviving an Economic Downturn

The economy can often be unpredictable, and while economists can tell when things are going to slow down it isn’t [...]

Technology for the Reluctant

Even though it is 2018 there are still many entrepreneurs and employees who are not sold on the idea of [...]

Success in the Summer

Summer is traditionally a downtime for most businesses, but it doesn’t have to be. With your regular customers out of [...]

Recovering from Bad Business Decisions

One of the inevitable parts of being a business owner is coming back from errors, both big and small. Sometimes [...]

Starting Up for the Right Reasons

So many businesses are the result of personal experiences. A woman has a hard time finding clothes she loves. A [...]

Making a Difference

Many small business owners have huge hearts for their communities and local causes. They feel immense loyalty to those have [...]

Technology and Small Business

According to the Small Business Administration 99.7% of US employer firms are small businesses. Inc Magazine said in 2014 that [...]

Sharing Positive Feedback

Much like in our personal lives there is a fine line between sharing success and coming across as bragging when [...]

Social Media and Feedback

Imagine you are a restaurant owner. Last night didn’t go great. One of the stoves wasn’t working. Two people called [...]

eCommerce Series Outreach Part IV

You can read parts 1, 2, and 3 of our series on e-commerce. Making the decision to move to an [...]

eCommerce Series Cost Estimates Part III

Catch the first two parts of the e-commerce series here and here. Now that we have talked the hows and [...]

eCommerce Series Platforms Part II

Catch the first post on e-commerce here. Moving to an e-commerce platform is an exciting change for any business. It [...]

eCommerce Series Introduction Part I

In a recent Pew Research study, they identified 8 out of 10 shoppers in the United States shop online. 28% [...]

Resolutions for the Business Owner

As you write down your list of personal resolutions this New Year, take a minute to think about your role [...]

Making Decisions

Running a small business is hard, very hard. It seems that oftentimes one success brings twenty new obstacles and decisions. [...]

HTML: The Basics

HTML is the language of the internet. To many it is just an abstract concept that they know of but [...]

Creating a Web Identity

Imagine an architect building a delicate and intricate building that anyone can visit. It will have 24/7 access with a [...]

Building Content for a Small Business

Last week on the Hub we shared a post on the basics of SEO. Over the next few weeks we [...]

Tips: Backup Strategies 101

Always have a backup model in place for your business technology. You never know when a system crash will occur, [...]

SEO Intro for Small Business Owners

Businesses love acronyms, and social media and the internet are no exception. In fact, there are even more acronyms to [...]

Benefit of Mobile Payment Systems

As technology and times change so must businesses. There is a quick shift from old school cash registers to mobile [...]