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
Increase WooCommerce Wholesale Sales
How To Increase WooCommerce Wholesale B2B Sales

Wholesale businesses have traditionally been complex operations with many business systems. In the last few years the wholesale business has [...]

22
Mar
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 [...]