Cisco and Amazon Against Counterfeiting – Fighting the Good Fight, Together

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Small businesses around the globe are increasingly looking for faster, simpler, and more cost-effective ways to buy technology. In our last blog, we shared the benefits and risks of new routes to market and focused particularly on the ease of purchasing online. With this, comes a risk of purchasing inferior quality or even counterfeit goods. […]

How Small Retailers Can Improve Customer and Associate Experiences This Holiday Season

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#SmallBusinessSaturday is just around the corner, and we take a closer look at the technology small retailers need to accelerate digital transformation and improve customer experiences.

Cisco at Web Summit 2021: Elevating Female Founders and Driving Small Business Success

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Small businesses make up 99% of the world’s business population, yet women-led start-ups received only 2.3% of Venture Capital funding in 2020, according to Harvard Business Review. This is particularly concerning in today’s business landscape, where much of the economy’s recovery rests upon small business’ own return to growth. Cisco at Web Summit 2021: Powering […]

What if Small Business Digitization was not about Technology?

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CIsco is helping small businesses make their infrastructure ready for hybrid work. Flexible payment solutions can help customers and partners accelerate digital transformation to quickly adapt to hybrid work and make their organizations more productive.

The Big Risk of Fraudulent Products for Small Business

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Whether purchased knowingly or inadvertently, unauthorized products can significantly harm a small business, for whom the margins of error are slim to nil.

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

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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.

Sheer Necessity Forces Life Learning Academy to be Innovative in Returning to Normalcy

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For any parent who has children in the California public school systems, news reports about the progress (or lack thereof) the state had been making in returning kids back to schools were disheartening to say the least. One school who was clearly ahead of this curve is San Francisco-based Life Learning Academy (LLA). By sheer necessity, LLA always set its own course when it comes to educating its nearly 60 students.

Great Security Comes in Small Packages: Where SMBs Excel at Cybersecurity

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Would you believe that small businesses can teach enterprises a thing or two about effective cybersecurity? Find out where SMBs are leading the way in our 2021 Security Outcomes Study for SMBs.

Cisco Partners: Increase Revenue and Profitability with Cisco Meraki and Umbrella

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Managed Service opportunity is growing as shifts in business models continue to elevate the relevance of Cisco Meraki and Umbrella to drive greater profitability. Over 53% of global Cisco partners have managed practices and 15% are from traditional resellers. (Source: Techaisle Channel Research Study, 2020 Cisco Commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a total Economic Impact […]