According to a 2018 Radicati Group study, there will be more than 3.8 billion email users before the start of 2019. Amongst current American users, 89% check email at least once a day and nearly 21% check their email more than five times a day.

Needless to say, email is a vital part of modern communication. The influx and significance of email become even more heightened when you take into account the needs of small businesses.

Unlike casual users, small business owners and entrepreneurs must concern themselves with a meticulous organization of a large amount of incoming mail, the security of personal and client information, reliability, professional appearance and integration across platforms and devices.

As of 2018, there are 434 Email Service Providers (ESP) available in the market, and each one has it’s own unique package of features and tools available to users.

Here is an overview of three of the most well-rounded and highly regarded email service providers.

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If you are in Miami and looking for a high-speed internet service provider, Comcast Gigabit Internet is there to impress. It promises to provide exceptional coverage, speed, and control you need to enjoy the ultimate internet experience. With this internet package, businesses will now be able to consistently enjoy super fast speeds that will run even during peak hours when most people are online.

Comcast's Gigabit Internet allows up to 1-gigabit download speed for employees within a company, which is estimated to be 80 times faster than the average internet access speed in America. With this service, businesses in Miami now have enough speed to connect more devices, allowing them to run their businesses on faster and more reliable network. Read more

In the last 15 years, the nature of internet threats has changed radically from the simple viruses, malware, to ransomware, phishing, and massive device compromises. Corporations have had ways to counter every new threat at varying costs.

The challenge remains the home user. Many people work from home, bring work home, or have smart devices, making the home an attractive target to the hackers.

The high-tech lifestyle has made it easy to manage smart appliances to make life easier; however, it brings with it the worry of hacking threats. Read more

A customer database helps to build relationships.When you develop stronger, healthier relationships with your customers, they are likely to purchase regularly, buy even at a higher price, try the new versions of your products when they get launched. But poor data quality interrupts many database efforts. When your customer information is duplicate, inaccurate, and incomplete, you cannot get your whole universe of contacts, wasting resources and contacting wrong phone numbers and addresses.

The following stats will help you understand the potential of the customer database.

  • “By evaluating and analyzing more than 14 days of customer behavioural history and applying prescriptive and predictive analytics, one travel company is able to increase bookings by 2.6 percent and 50,000 additional transactions a day.”
  • According to experts,“More than 40 percent of all data analytics projects will associate to an aspect of customer experience by 2020.”
  • As per research director at Garter, Melissa Davis,“ When businesses invest in customer analytics, they are able to know customers’ needs, the value of satisfaction, and able to give a better customer experience.”

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If you have a small business and not using cloud computing, you may soon find yourself falling behind competitors that are on the cloud.

As stand-alone desktop applications losing popularity, companies are turning to cloud services, and for a number of good reasons.

Cloud computing can help save your small business time and money while boosting productivity.

Here are some of the reasons you should start using the cloud for your small business:

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