Tag Archives: Small business

April 18, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SMB Stock and Inventory from Quote Stock Sell

By Ben Kepes

Inventory is a critical part of any business that works in the real (ie physical) world. However given the seeming unquenchable excitement for the virtual world, inventory is sadly often dismissed down the priority list in favor of “sexier” functional areas. This oversight however proves an opportunity for people with

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February 22, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

StitchLabs–Solving SMBs Inventory Woes

By Ben Kepes

Many readers know that outside of technology, I own a business that manufactures apparel and other products and sells them both online and through retail outlets. Having been involved in that business for 17 or so years, I’ve had first-hand experience of just how difficult it is to run a

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January 29, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Churn and SaaS

By Ben Kepes

SaaS companies are faced with copious amounts of advice about pricing, monetization, funnel management and all the different things used to describe the processes involved in attracting, gaining and maintaining customers. One of the big areas that companies think about is that of churn – or how many customers “drop

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December 16, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Wave Updates UI, Rolls out Broad SMB Financial Portfolio

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been following Wave since its founding back in November 2010. The company has an interesting approach to the traditionally conservative accounting software space – it’s product is provided to the user at no cost who, in return, receive personalized “Business Savings”, or special deals offered by businesses that pay

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December 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Have a Happy, and Cloudy, New Year from CloudU

By Ben Kepes

Over twelve months ago I came up with the crazy sounding idea of a vendor neutral education program that would see Mom and Pop businesses (along with regular IT folks) gain a resource with which they could build their knowledge of Cloud Computing. Luckily there were some incredibly progressive folks

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December 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Don’t Wait for the Pros, Experiment!

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report we talked about the fact that a lack of formal Cloud Computing qualifications is something of a barrier to organizations adopting the Cloud. It’s something we’re trying, in some small way, to address with the CloudU certificate, but nonetheless the fact remains that when it

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November 23, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Small Teams, Big Impacts

By Ben Kepes

A favorite saying of someone I know in this industry is that “It’s not the big that eat the small, it’s the fast that eat the slow”. It’s a recurrent theme as terms like “pivot”, “lean”, “agile” and “minimum viable product” become the lingua franca of startups. We’ve moved rapidly

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September 9, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Salesforce for Quickbooks for Salesforce for Quickbooks….

By Ben Kepes

Owning and running a bunch of small businesses, I have a real appreciation for just how important it is for SMBs to have a handle on their customers and deal flow – CRM, a concept foreign to many SMBs only a few years ago has become, with the growing importance

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April 20, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

KashFlow gets Email Marketing. Nicely Done!

By Ben Kepes

We all know that marketing is the lifeblood for small and medium businesses. In the 15 years or so that I’ve owned and run SMBs, I’ve seen how hard it is to actually market to consumers (well, hard or expensive). Now there’s a whole new range of tools that put

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April 12, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Connect2Field and the Partner Program

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – I am an adviser to Connect2Field, but I still think this is pretty interesting I’m stoked to be an advisor to Connect2Field. They’re an Australian startup, but not wanting to hold that against them, what I really like is the fact that they’re brining the cloud to traditional

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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