SMB: Small and Medium Business

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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.

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]