NewsArticlesThe Online Experience of Small and Medium Enterprises - Sensis Report [Aug 2007] "In terms of website effectiveness, a majority of businesses (65 percent) have indicated that their website increased their business effectiveness. The reason most SMEs provided was that the website had generated additional sales, orders, bookings and customers." Web 2.0 Tools to Boost Your Business' Productivity [08-07-07] "... the best advantage of using software as a service for entrepreneurs is the time-to-market aspect. If you can live with doing only basic configurations and changes, you can be selling in one day if you're the only employee, or in one to two weeks if you have a small sales force, depending on your team's skill set. Software as a service helps business users rely less on internal IT staff." Two-thirds of small business not online [20-06-07] "Small businesses have been relatively slow to reap the rewards that an effective online presence can bring... There is a clear need for small business owners to better understand the opportunities available so that they can continue to thrive and compete against larger businesses." Virtues of Web 2.0 Overlooked by SMEs [08-06-07] "A website is often the first means of contact for a potential customer and can serve as a virtual shop window showcasing the company's products and services. That means these companies are missing out on a crucial business element." Small Business SaaS: Different Approaches from BT, 1&1 and GoDaddy [24-01-07] Comment: "Small business SaaS is going to be huge I think. Is anyone doing it with open source solutions? I can envision a company selling everything a small business needs (as SaaS) and keeping their operating expenses low by avoiding all the software licensing fees." SaaS for Very Small Businesses - Show Me the Money [31-05-06] "SaaS is the right answer... since it allows the SMB user to start using the functionality without an upfront investment, does not require implementation, upgrades, maintenance, worrying about backups and security ..etc. " SaaS and the Small Business [15-03-06] "SMBs... focus on getting affordable access to new tools to improve their opportunity to grow and succeed. Being "affordable" is table stakes." |
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