Big businesses have a lot of advantages over their smaller rivals: established reputations, lower operating costs, large advertising budgets and media attention. Competing with the big brands can seem ...

How do you pitch a startup? Your startup pitch is everything and knowing how to pitch a startup is essential to your success. It doesn’t matter how innovative, well thought-out or potentially ...

At its core, your business is always going to be trying to meet customer needs. When it comes to doing that effectively, you need to focus on communication, customer experience, and adaptability to ...

Keep Up With Technology Trends The rate at which technology trends evolve can be daunting for any business owner. It seems at times, that almost as quickly as a company adopts new technology, it’s ...

The Importance of Cyber Security Training for Employees As more and more data breaches and hacks make the news, affecting businesses ranging from kitchen manufacturer OXO to investment management ...

Make Social Media Work for Your Business Is your business making the most of social media? Is social media working for your business? By this point, it’s pretty likely that your business is using ...

Click for a full-size Infographic or PDF Despite the headlines touting AI as a human replacement, most small business owners and employees surveyed by Cox Business view the technology as a tool to ...

6 Stages of a Startup and What You Should Be Doing at Each One Like any other growing thing, all businesses have lifecycles, and although many factors influence growth, there are 6 specific stages of ...

This week is National Small Business Week – a celebration for the 28 million small businesses in the U.S. In conjunction with this annual event, Cox Business announced results of its inaugural small ...

Here Are 10 Big Reasons Why it Matters to Purchase from Local Small Businesses The demand to shop local small businesses is becoming a growing movement across many niches and industries. Here are 10 ...

How to Network at a Conference One of the most valuable takeaways from any conference is the new relationships and contacts made through networking. Understanding how to network at a conference, and ...

As a business or brand, you have the power to inspire and connect with your audience through your organization’s backstory. And you can show your authenticity and build trust with consumers by sharing ...