BetterSMB Best practices for small and mid-size businesses

These days, cybersecurity is a necessity nearly every small business owner needs to consider.

According to a Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, 81 percent of data breaches involve weak, reused or stolen credentials. That’s significantly higher than the 63 percent it was in 2016. With a password manager, you can create those strong ...

Here’s your chance to be heard, and to help get a sense of what other small and medium-sized business professionals are talking about. Each issue, we’ll ask a question of our readers. Responses may be used to shape future issues ...

According to Forbes, America’s top 10 most generous philanthropists are: 1. Warren Buffet ($2.8 billion) 2. Bill and Melinda Gates ($2.1 billion) 3. Michael Bloomberg ($600 million) 4. George Soros ($531 million) 5. Chuck Feeney ($482 million) 6. Walton Family ...

$1.8 million A note with Albert Einstein’s handwritten notes on how to live a happy and fulfilling life were recently sold at a Jerusalem auction house for $1.8 million. Ponder this: What records do you keep? What records do you ...

Twitter recently announced it would begin labeling election-related advertisements in response to a threat of regulation from the U.S. government over the lack of disclosure for political spending on social media networks. Twitter will launch a website detailing what ads ...

Hate what you’re doing? Feel like you want to quit? Find out how other small business owners responded when they felt that way. AP > What would it be like if Amazon brought 50,000 workers to your city? THE WASHINGTON ...

A Baltimore company wants to make credit cards and financing accessible to smaller merchants again.

More and more people are earning extra cash by freelancing in the sharing economy. That may mean writing on the side, playing music on the weekends, driving for ride-sharing services like Uber or Lyft or selling handmade jewelry on Etsy. No ...

Here’s your chance to be heard, and to help get a sense of what other small and medium-sized business professionals are talking about. Each issue, we’ll ask a question of our readers. Responses may be used to shape future issues ...

According to Forbes, the 10 richest tech billionaires in the world are: 1. Bill Gates ($84.5 billion) 2. Jeff Bezos ($81.7 billion) 3. Mark Zuckerberg ($69.6 billion) 4. Larry Ellison ($59.3 billion) 5. Larry Page ($43.9 billion) 6. Sergey Brin ...

11.3 According to a recent InsideSales.com report, European sales representatives are 11.3 percent better at attaining quota than U.S. sales representatives. According to the research, Europeans average 65 percent of representatives attaining quota compared to 58.4 percent of American representatives. ...

BridgeTower Media is hosting a contest to determine what are the most creative ways to save money. Anyone is eligible, there is no purchase necessary, and most importantly, we’re offering monetary prizes to the Top 3 winners to help you ...

Google’s Chrome browser is becoming more proactive about warning users of insecure internet sites when the update for Chrome OS comes out later this month. What to look for: Users can expect to see a “Not secure” warning in the browser’s address ...

Here’s what happened when a pub in the middle of nowhere was named the world’s best restaurant. BLOOMBERG > Northern California’s wine country has been devastated by wildfires. Here’s how it will affect the grapes, the wines and the industry. ...