5 Ways You Can Boost Social Engagement for Your Small Biz

As a small business owner, you have a lot on your plate: inventory, the budget and human resources, just to name a few. In light of all that, having strong marketing might seem like a luxury. But just as you develop a budget to manage your finances, it’s important to develop a plan for marketing... Read more

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5 Key Things Millennial Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Hiring a Great Team

According to the Intuit 2020 Report, researched by Emergent Research in partnership with Intuit, the oldest millennials will be 40 by 2020. This generation is on the fast track towards changing the existing workforce for the better, with an emphasis on work/life balance, spending less time in the office and more time getting their job... Read more

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Your Guide to Improving Inventory Management (& Revenue)

One of the biggest costs for retail business operations is inventory. Inventory is a necessary cost of doing business for retailers of all sizes. After all, without inventory, you wouldn’t have any products to sell! But many small businesses are starting to look at innovative ways to save money on inventory or otherwise manage their... Read more

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Welcome to Atlanta! Come ride on them thangs like erryday

Are you visiting Atlanta for Xerocon 2018 next week? Kabbage wants to welcome you to our amazing city! We’ve compiled a list of what to do, where to eat, where to shop and how to get around our bustling city. Check out the list below to help with your time here.   Near the event... Read more

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How Amazon’s Seller Performance Affects Retail Arbitrage

First, let’s answer the question: What is retail arbitrage? Retail arbitrage is a method of obtaining inventory which involves purchasing items from retail stores and reselling the merchandise on online marketplaces. Typically, this method is used by smaller sellers, but we have seen sellers generate over $500,000 per year using this purchasing model. Sellers purchase... Read more

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The Ultimate Guide for Seasonal Businesses

As a seasonal business owner, you may find yourself asking these two important questions: How do you make the most of your busy season? How do you keep momentum moving forward in a slow market? Business owners are constantly looking for new ways to incentivize their customers to spend during the slow seasons to help... Read more

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4 Simple Ways You Can Empower Women in Business

How do you help empower women-owned businesses? If you struggled to answer this question or can backdate your last involvement to March during Women’s History Month, it’s time to make a change by being the change. It might take a little effort at the start, but paying it forward pays off in the long run... Read more

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5 Subscription Boxes With Small Businesses In Mind 🎁

Subscription boxes – we’ve all heard of them, and most of us have at least tried them, if not stuck with one or two in particular. While subscription boxes have been around for a while, their industry growth has anything but slowed down. In fact, the market has grown over 100 percent year over year... Read more

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5 Surefire Signs You’re Ready to Start Hiring for your Small Business

Knowing when to add new talent can be difficult for any business, but especially small businesses. There’s usually a lot going on, and when employees wear many hats, it can be difficult to see where the hiring needs are. Thankfully, there are some surefire signs that usually mean it’s time to staff up. Whether you’re... Read more

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5 Side Hustlers Share How & Why They Hustle ✊

Happy Small Business Week to all of the awesome entrepreneurs out there! This week, we wanted to hear from small business owners like you about running a small business. We spoke with five entrepreneurs who work full-time while also running a side hustle. They offer their inspiration and insights to getting started. Name: Lyle Christensen... Read more

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Tech Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: A 10,000+ Word Guide On Investing in Technology

Welcome to Kabbage’s in-depth technology guide! This guide is approximately 10,000 words (or roughly 30 pages) and contains the information you need on why technology matters, tools for your small business, how to invest in technologies and more. Fortunately, we’ve broken it up into five chapters: Why technology matters Tools and apps you need Technologies... Read more

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Kabbage Hack Day Sparks Creation, Innovation, and Teamwork

A well-managed company culture isn’t a given. It takes time and persistence to build upon the business’s core principles, values, mission and purpose. At Kabbage, everything we do is measured against our core values: Care deeply Inspire innovation Win Create “Holy s**t!” moments Unconditional commitment Stay connected A prime example is our annual Hack Day... Read more

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How to Improve the Readability of Your Blog Posts — and 6 Tools to Help

It’s not enough to regularly update your blog. That’s a good first step for your small business, but it’s also necessary to make sure each post is easily readable. So, what does that mean exactly? Think of readability as a measure of how easy it is for people of all knowledge levels to understand what... Read more

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Why Online Business Listings are Critical for Home Builders

Your business information is everywhere on the internet. Whether you like it or not — and no matter if this info is correct or riddled with errors — you will find listings for your company on search engines, mobile apps, social media sites and dozens of local directories. It’s pretty easy to see why these... Read more

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7 Marketing Tactics to Bring More Business to Your Salon

Customer attrition rates at salons are some of the highest for small businesses. If you keep relying on your regulars to keep your salon afloat, you might go out of business. You need customers to keep coming through your door, and to make that happen, you have to kick your marketing strategy up a notch.... Read more

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Mobile Lending On The Rise Among Small Business Owners

Kabbage recently analyzed the lending behavior of nearly 150,000 small businesses, uncovering an increasing growth of mobile lending. The total number of loans accessed through mobile increased by more than 360 percent between April 2014 and February 2018. In the same period, the total dollars accessed through mobile increased over 1,220 percent. The growth demonstrates... Read more

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4 Ways Small Businesses Benefit from Responsible Waste Management

“It’s the right thing to do” may not hold much weight for a small business owner who is trying to cover payroll, pay a building lease and turn a profit. But there’s more to reducing, reusing and recycling than just feeling warm and fuzzy about your environmental choices. Here are four advantages that businesses, particularly... Read more

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How to Start a Small Business with No Money to Invest

Starting a business in 2018 with no money is 100 percent doable. In fact, you’ll have an easier time today than Google, Apple, Disney, Mattel and Harley Davidson had when they were started in garages decades ago. Why? Because never before has it been so cheap and easy to go from idea to startup, build... Read more

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3 Ways to Reduce the Stress of Small Business Payment Processing

Payment processing, especially for small businesses, can be a costly and complicated experience. In today’s market, accepting credit cards and mobile payments is essentially a requirement to be able to compete. But a lot of small business owners don’t even know where to start. A simple Google search might reveal that your bank offers merchant... Read more

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How to Sell on Amazon: A 3,000+ Word Small Business Guide

Post updated March 14, 2018. One of the biggest parts of Amazon’s success is its marketplace for third-party retailers to sell products via Amazon’s platform. Many Amazon sellers are independent small business owners who have built successful small businesses by utilizing the big reach and big scale of Amazon to connect with buyers all over... Read more

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