Comments on: SMBs Driving the Tech Economy

By: Johanna Bail

Johanna Bail — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:06:10 +0000

This is not really surprising. As a serial entrepreneur myself, I know that investing in technology could spell the difference in efficiency. The faster that you can do things and the more that you can focus on mission critical tasks, the sooner you could have your return in investment.

I don’t try to do everything in-house, and most often rely on the cloud as it is often cheaper at the onset, and hassle-free. It’s nice to my pocketbook. Although, I have to say that some companies are snobbish towards SMBs. Probably they feel that just because we’re small, we’re easy to ignore. We’ll think again or better yet, read this article.

By: Randy Wolfe

Randy Wolfe — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:21:15 +0000

Elephants don’t dance, they say. Larger corporations take time to embrace newer technologies as decision making goes through a certain hierarchy. As just like with Japan, SMBs are the drivers of the economy.

That’s why tech companies need to provide a certain price structure with the SMBs in mind. They cannot and should not market their services to SMBs as they would with bigger corporations. They have to put into consideration the limited resources of those organizations. That being said, tech companies can have smaller margins with SMBs and just market to a large number of them. That’s how the Chinese does business.

By: Ian Davis

Ian Davis — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:07:25 +0000

SMBs drive the economy, so it isn’t a surprise they drive tech spending. Large corporations are too inflexible in anything and probably tech spending isn’t an exception. Just consider the awkward process of approval in a corporation. With SMBs is is more straightforward – you want some piece of tech, the manager signs, you get it. You don’t have to wait for months to get the approval.

By: Matt Windland

Matt Windland — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:34:01 +0000

To me, this makes perfect sense. As attacks and data theft continues to rise and cloud solutions offer SMBs full corporation-size IT benefits without the need for the site space or the hired professionals, now is a turning of the page so to speak that requires smaller businesses who want to be their most competitive or on the cutting edge to enter a period of spending. This may die down in a few years as these solutions become more cost effective or the norm rather than the exception, but for right now it’s a good sector to be in to beat the recession.