The fifth edition of our Small and Medium Business Trends Report found that more than one-third of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in Australia and New Zealand considered financial support from local communities to be vital during the pandemic.

Now that we’re more than 18 months into a world with COVID-19, what can new research tell us about the path forward for SMBs?

Running a business and improving a business are two separate tasks, and the former tends to leave very little time for the latter. SMB Trailblazers are finding creative, tech-enabled solutions that help them juggle both.

Small business transformation isn’t easy, especially with limited resources and time. Here are the most common business goals and specific digital solutions that can help you achieve them.

More than two in five SMBs say maintaining financial growth is one of the top three hurdles to business growth and nearly half expect COVID to modify the way they operate in the long term. Here, two Trailblazers, Nick Holden, Founder and Director of ModularWalls, and Christopher Tsiknas, Marketing and Partnerships Specialist at Lawpath, share their business 2020 growth stories. Discover how they maneuvered hurdles and modified for success.

For some business leaders, the term ‘digital transformation’ may be bordering on becoming buzzwords.

While the global pandemic forced businesses to think differently about how they operate, the importance of putting customers first was simply magnified. Salesforce Trailblazers CreativeCubes.co and Kitchen Mania are two small businesses who are continuing to see the benefits of putting customers first. 

It was back in March that we started surveying over 2,300 small and medium businesses across the globe, including hundreds in Australia and New Zealand, for our fourth edition of the Small and…