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Businesswire | August 06, 2020

As small and micro businesses (SMBs) worldwide continue to endure the financial impact of COVID-19, one thing is clear: rethinking the checkout or point-of-sale (POS) experience is essential for survival on Main Street. Visa (NYSE: V) today released the Visa Back to Business study assessing this dramatic shift to digital commerce in response to the pandemic, driven largely by changing consumer expectations for a safe and touchless payment moment. According to the eight market study of both consu...

SMALL BUSINESS ADVICE,SMALL BUSINESS TRENDS

CIGNA | August 16, 2022

Cigna Corporation a leading global health service company, and Oscar Health, Inc. (“Oscar”) (NYSE: OSCR), the first health insurance company built on a full stack technology platform, announced that Cigna + Oscar2 small business health insurance will be available across the Philadelphia metro area, including Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties beginning January 1, 2023, pending regulatory approval. “A healthy workforce is...

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KBRA | September 07, 2022

KBRA releases research on the small business loan asset-backed security (ABS) sector, with a special focus on online small business loan ABS, which KBRA defines as deals where the collateral pool consists of assets with an initial receivable balance of $1 million or less. Small businesses saw their revenues drastically curtailed or even ceased permanently due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To alleviate some of the fallout, the U.S. government provided stimulus money through Paycheck Protection Progra...

MARKETING AND NETWORKING,SMALL BUSINESS ADVICE

DesignRush | July 11, 2022

46% of all Google searches have local intent. That’s an impressive 37,000 local searches per second. It matters because 76% of consumers that perform a local search on their phones visit a store that day, as shared by Backlinko. While Google’s traditional ranking factors apply to local SEO, there are various other strategies that businesses, especially small ones, can leverage to increase exposure in local listings. DesignRush, a B2B marketplace connecting businesses w...