In an effort to help promote local businesses for National Small Business Week next week, Chicago’s Uptown Chamber group Business Partners joined up with Groupon for a community event called Discover Uptown Collection. Through this joint effort, the intention is to celebrate local merchants on...
Elavon, the payments provider, announced Tuesday (April 25) that it now offers two digital eCommerce tools that create unique online customer experiences. In a press release, Elavon said the two new tools, Converge Digital Commerce with 3dcart and Online Ordering with talech, will help small businesses...
Small businesses across the United States have a sanguine view of near-term prospects, with plans to hire more staff in the face of an anticipated pickup in demand, Reuters reported, citing data from the New York Federal Reserve. That anticipation might lead to solid hiring...
Store front businesses are on a run and seemingly picking up steam. With a 2.1 percent growth in Q4 2016, those merchants who line the main streets and side streets of America are anything but slowing down, according to the hot-off-the-presses Q1 PYMNTS.com Store Front...
Main Street USA isn’t just growing — it’s exploding. The latest PYMNTS Store Front Index™ reveals that store front businesses in the U.S. grew by 2.1 percent in Q4 2016. That growth was powered in part by the booming fitness industry, which clocked in with a 6...
In North America there are something like 26 million small businesses which have two things in common: they are small and most of them are admittedly inept at handling the accounting side of their businesses, says Wave CEO Kirk Simpson. “The reality is that when...
Sometimes, the best way to solve a problem is to go straight to the source to fix it. That was PayPal’s approach as it readied its release of a range of new capabilities and features to help small business owners do what they do best...
As President-Elect Trump has driven stock markets to brand new highs, Main Street might have to wait a bit to see the value. While Store Front businesses showed positive year-over-year growth, their performance overall dipped slightly since Q2 2016. The hot-off-the-presses Q4 PYMNTS.com Store Front...
As President-Elect Trump has driven stock markets to brand new highs, Main Street might have to wait a bit to see the value. While Store Front businesses showed positive year-over-year growth, their performance overall dipped slightly since Q2 2016. The hot-off-the-presses Q4 PYMNTS.com Store Front...
