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Andy Scholl

Marketing Manager- Small Business Segment

Small Business Marketing

Andy Scholl is the Small Business Product Marketing Manager for Cisco, based in San Jose, CA. He is passionate about learning how small businesses use technology to create new business opportunities and capitalize on them. Prior to Cisco, Andy held roles in product management and portfolio marketing in global roles based in the US and in Europe. When he’s not in collaborating or presenting in a Webex meeting, he enjoys cycling along SF Bay, hiking, gardening, cooking and, most of all, traveling to new places with his family.

Articles

Why Hybrid Work Is Driving SMB Digital Transformation at a Fast Clip

1 min read

To adapt to a world in which hybrid work is the norm, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are doing what they do best: finding solutions that simplify their increasingly complex business operations.

Mike’s Bikes and a Full Circle: Doing Good is Good Business

2 min read

Cisco customer Mike’s Bikes takes the maxim “think globally, act locally” to the max through the Mike’s Bikes Foundation. Join us for the next #CiscoChat to learn how Mike's Bikes rose to the SMB Challenge: thriving locally while making a global impact.

Advice to Small Businesses: ‘Work from Anywhere’ Still Has Only 24 Hours in a Day

3 min read

As small businesses start unearthing themselves from the rubble of the COVID-19 pandemic, one positive outcome they are likely to carry over is letting their employees to continue to work remotely. This trend is part of a larger movement called hybrid work or hybrid office that promises to transform the “how” of work forever. The Cisco 2020 Global Workforce Survey revealed how significant this transformation might be with nearly 60 percent of the survey reporting that […]

Coping with Small Business Office Changes

3 min read

If there’s one thing 2020 taught us, it’s that you need to expect the unexpected. If you’re like a lot of people at small businesses, you’ve had to adapt and change repeatedly. Unexpected events like a global pandemic affect your people and where they work. Some small businesses have changed their business models completely, which […]

A Three-Pronged Approach to Small Business Office Safety

5 min read

For every small business, it’s essential to keep people healthy and safe. Like the old saying goes, safety first. And now with COVID-19, monitoring workplace hazards is an even higher priority. No matter how small your business might be, as an employer, you need to keep your workers and customers safe without disrupting the flow […]

Cheetah Revamps Its Technology to Adapt to Changes

2 min read

John Hodson had been on the job for less than three months when the unthinkable happened. With the pandemic grinding the Western United States to a standstill, the new head of IT for Cheetah, a wholesale food supplier in the Bay Area, had to lay off staff and relinquish the company’s managed IT services. “The […]

Cisco Partner Port53 Helps Small Businesses Stay Safe with Cloud-Based Security

2 min read

The global pandemic has spurred an onslaught of data breaches and cybersecurity incidents. It’s not a surprise because hackers, fraudsters, and scammers have always been opportunistic. And disruptive events have always created opportunities for malfeasance. According to the FBI, the volume of cyberattacks has increased by 400 percent since the beginning of the pandemic, with […]

Learning from past disruptions, preparing for whatever is next

2 min read

Nuggets of wisdom and advice from a longtime Cisco Premier Partner that can help small businesses prepare for the next major disruption.

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