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AdvisorSmith found that 22% of small businesses fail within the first year, 32% fail within the first two years, and 40% fail within the first three years of business. Read our in-depth breakdown of the small business failure rate.
What is a high-yield savings account? Ahigh-yield savings accountrewards you with a higher interest rate than a traditional savings account, allowing your money to grow faster. The interest rate that these accounts offer is known as the annual percentage yield (APY). The higher your APY, the...
For businesses large and small, the seemingly magical promise of generative AI is that it can bring the benefits of technology automation to knowledge work. Or, as a McKinsey report put it, “activities involving decision making and collaboration, which previously had the lowest potential for autom...
Who are the targets of phishing? Anyone. Most phishing attacks target numerous email addresses with the hope that some percentage of users will be tricked. Security-awarenesstrainingis helpful in educating users on the dangers of phishing attacks and teaches strategies to identify phishing communication...
Email delivery, often discussed as a percentage, is the number of messages to your recipients that didn’t bounce. Email deliverability is a bit more nuanced. This metric tracks how much of your mail made it past filters to land in the inbox rather than the spam folder. When talking about...
In public preview, customer tenants in US Government Community (GCC) High, and Department of Defense (DoD) environments can now use Intune to manage the Defender security settings on the devices that onboarded to Defender without enrolling those devices with Intune. This capability is known as...
Online sellers often use dropshipping products to augment their other physical inventory. You tie up less capital with dropshipping, but you only get a small percentage of the sale; most of the earnings go to the dropship provider. Dropshippers will typically offer you a discount on products ...
Dr. Peter Boumgarden:One common factor in the failure of small businesses is that they run out of cash. I know that seems simple, but in this case, simple can be true. The consultancy McKinsey and Company did some work this past summer and found that a third of small business respondent...