It was great to get an update this week from Lawson Software (there’s a lot to be said for a briefing after a conference, btw). More to come!…. [Read more...]
10 Best Practices For a Better Website
February 14, 2011 by · 5 Comments
Have you read enough pieces yet on what makes a great website?
You have probably seen quite a few articles and posts addressing this. We here at SMB Research know we have seen a lot of material. (SMB Research includes at least one fairly good article on SMB Research’s Top 20 Favorite Reads of 2010.)
Many of these articles seem to take a cookie-cutter approach: it should go without saying at this point that a website needs to have good navigation, and that a website needs a “Call to Action”.
We think there are a number of other critical website features and best practices that get too little attention.
Great Learnings from Boston’s Small Business of the Year Awards
October 15, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
SMB Research was very pleased to be able to attend the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s 26th Annual Small Business of the Year Awards yesterday (Oct 14, 2010) at the Colonnade Hotel. Emceed by WBZ Radio’s co-Anchor of “WBZ Morning News” Ed Walsh, the event itself was flawlessly put together and efficiently executed, for a very enjoyable event. [Read more...]
EMC for Small-to-Medium Business
June 14, 2010 by · 1 Comment
When a company over $14B focuses on a market, even if this represents a smaller percentage of their total revenue such as 5% to 10% , that could represents nearly a $1B business. That can probably be said about EMC‘s Small-to-Medium (SMB) focus. [Read more...]
2010 IT Planning for Small-to-Medium Business
April 23, 2010 by · 3 Comments
Sizing up Small-to-Medium Business (SMB) – A Follow-up
January 29, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
In the process of writing my blog post, “Sizing up Small-to-Medium Business (SMB)“, I initiated a lively discussion on LinkedIn’s SMB IT Forum.
My thanks to the following people for participating in one of the longer discussions I have seen or been involved in on LinkedIn:
- Amy Babinchak, IT Business Owner, Author, Advisor, Professor, and blogger at ThirdTier.net and at Small Business Tech Notes
- Jere Terrill, Owner, My Computer Mechanic, Inc.
- Leon McCaskill, Owner, InfiNet Inc.
- Peter Brown, Managing Director of Pensive; Board Chairman and President of OASIS
- Rebecca Edgerton Wright, PWEA Lead Developer/Architect at IBM PartnerWorld
- Sanjeev Aggarwal, Founder & Partner, SMB Group, Inc.
- Scott Wilson, Principal Consultant at Indigo Moon Systems
Here are some take-aways from this discussion: [Read more...]
Sizing up Small-to-Medium Business (SMB)
January 12, 2010 by · 11 Comments
As we enter 2010, and we here at SMB Research begin to focus on the technology advisory needs of the small and small-to-medium business, it is worth taking a fresh look at “small business”, and “SMB” (or “SME”) – and, indeed, what these terms even mean.
The confusion around these terms have been addressed before elsewhere before, most notably by Anita Campbell Editor in Chief of the terrific Small Business Trends website, but by others as well. (You will find below references to several other discussions about the challenge of defining SMB and small business.) [Read more...]