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One of the biggest challenges facing small businesses is responsible and secure handling of customer data and payment transactions.

Holiday sales sometimes account for as much two-thirds of the annual profits for a small business.  But does this have to be the case? Maybe not if you’re thinking about how you can be leveraging the work done during the holidays to generate lots of more work all throughout the year.

Money. Technology. Marketing. It’s all important for ensuring holiday success. But let’s agree that nothing’s going to get done unless you’ve got the people to do it. Here are a few ideas to find and motivate good people during the holidays.

Keeping customers happy can be your secret weapon for sustaining and building your small business. But unless you have a dedicated customer-service staff, it can be easy to forget day-to-day customer cultivation when you already have a lot on your plate.

Today’s savvy buyers expect information at their fingertips, to make their purchases fast and for you to stay in touch with them. Now’s a good time to invest in some tech upgrades so you can be holiday-ready before shoppers start streaming through physical and virtual doors. Consider tackling these eight technologies.

PayPal facilitates online payments for hundreds of thousands of ecommerce ventures. Explore why you should use or pay with PayPal and how it can work for you.

We offer the tools today's companies need to do business. Our payment-processing and business tools help you get paid – whether you're selling online, offline, or some combination of the two.

You can’t magically add hours to your day, although you might wish you could when you have to ship orders and update your website and it’s pushing 10 PM. But you can make better use of the hours you have, especially when you’re losing time to last-minute tasks.

It wasn’t long ago that choosing online payment options for small businesses meant deciding which credit cards to accept. And while many people still whip out their credit card to make a purchase, digital payments are becoming more and more popular.