Small Business

March 21, 2018 

As a contracting business grows in capacity to handle projects, an important question that arises is how to also increase your capacity to obtain larger amounts on your bonds required for construction projects. Without increasing your bond line, you ...

March 14, 2018 

You deal with files all day, every day, and because of that, your experience should be as seamless and hassle-free as possible. So, we’ve upgraded our document management to better fit your workflow needs. Here’s what’s new. Centralized File Access Canopy now includes global files and a global inbox, which means you’ll have a centralized...…

March 8, 2018 

Seventy-nine percent of business executives said they were upbeat about prospects for the economy, eclipsing last quarter’s post-Great Recession high of 74 percent. As a point of reference, optimism levels were as low as 28 percent in early 2016.

March 7, 2018 

Nearly half (47 percent) of the 200 senior IT risk management executives surveyed whose companies have adopted mobile applications and devices have not included them in recent IT risk assessments. The findings for other emerging technologies are ...

Isaac M. O'Bannon

March 6, 2018 

Fidelity bonds can provide a compensation for monetary losses, as well as damages and losses to property and other assets. They protect against employee actions such as counterfeiting, forgery, embezzlement, identity theft, hacking, and the like.

March 6, 2018 

A captive insurer is generally defined as an insurance company that is wholly owned and controlled by its insureds; its primary purpose is to insure the risks of its owners, and its insureds benefit from the captive insurer’s underwriting profits.

Craig Smalley

March 1, 2018 

One defense strategy in particular is gaining popularity: Two-thirds (66 percent) of CIOs reported using multifactor authentication processes, such as tokens and biometrics. This is up 25 percentage points from a similar survey in 2015.

February 26, 2018 

Business owners have 80 to 90 percent of their financial wealth locked up within their businesses, according to the Exit Planning Institute, which trains and advises succession planning professionals. However, survey after survey by the institute ...

February 21, 2018 

FreshBooks, which raised $43 million USD in July of 2017 to expand its platform, will continue to invest in partnerships that help meet the unique needs of self-employed professionals, the fastest growing segment of the global workforce.

February 20, 2018 

Any new data breach notification law passed by Congress should cover all industries that handle consumer data and “leave no holes” that would allow events like last year’s Equifax breach to remain hidden, the National Retail Federation and other ...

February 20, 2018 

Top Small Business Blogs & Social Media 6 Business Lessons to Take Your Brand from Startup to Growth. Xero blog.http://bit.ly/2quuKjp Online Brand Guidelines for Small Businesses. Barbara Weltman, via the CorpNet blog.http://bit.ly/2GY6Ctk 12 Key Levers of SaaS Success. David Skok, via For Entrepreneurs blog.http://bit.ly/2k98DWU Top Tips for Negotiating with Restaurant Vendors. Annie Pilon, via Small...…

February 19, 2018 

Imports at the nation’s major retail container ports are expected to grow a healthy 4.9 percent during the first half of 2018 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the ...