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Meta, Amex and TikTok Offer Holiday Help to Small Businesses

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Meta also will highlight businesses from its Meta Business Leaders Network in the new 2022 Smalliday Showcase gift guide, and provide small businesses with advice on advertising effectively with its SMB Holiday Marketing Guide. small business owners.

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Prime Day 2021 Expands Small Business Focus and Sets the Stage for Back-to-School

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small business products and brands from June 7 through 10. A total of 300,000 small businesses are eligible for the Spend $10, Get $10 Promotion, more than twice as many as in 2020. Amazon will continue highlighting curated deals from small businesses throughout the event. “At

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Your Small Business Saturday Guide: Tips, Tools, and Statistics for Local Companies

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For a tradition that only dates to 2010, you have to hand it to Small Business Saturday. And research shows that hundreds of millions of shoppers now turn out for Small Business Saturday each year. But why is Small Business Saturday so important? What is Small Business Saturday?

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Amazon Nearly Quadruples Same- and Next-Day Prime Delivery Volume Over 2019

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Prime members the same or next day, nearly 4X the number of orders delivered at those speeds by this point in 2019, according to Doug Herrington, CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores. recordable incident rate and a 69% reduction in its lost time incident rate from 2019 to 2022. So far this year the company has delivered more than 1.8

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Cyber Week 2021 Was Slow, but Retail is Still on Track for a Record-Breaking Holiday Season

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In another sign that Black Friday, and to some extent the entire extended Thanksgiving weekend, has ceded its position as a truly peak shopping period, Black Friday 2021 was a mixed bag for retailers. higher than 2020’s, although it was not yet back up to 2019 levels (Black Friday 2021 was down 28.3% Store traffic was 47.5%

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PayPal Names Intuit Exec as New President/CEO

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Chriss joined Intuit 19 years ago and has held roles of increasing responsibility, including creating Intuit’s Partner and Developer Platform, leading the Self-Employed Solutions team and serving as Chief Product Officer of the Small Business Group from 2017 to 2019.

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Strategies for Retailers to Weather the Storm this Hurricane Season

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Hurricane Season 2022 is underway, and with it comes the looming threat of outages and downtime for retailers. As we head into the peak of the season, retailers should review their disaster avoidance strategies as they seek to protect critical equipment and prevent downtime.