Visa Launches Small Business Hub to Help Entrepreneurs Put their Best Digital Foot Forward
June 24 2020 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Visa Small Business Hub Provides Single
Destination for Small Businesses Seeking to Bounce Back
Includes Discounts for U.S.-based Small
Businesses from Authorize.Net, 3dcart, FreshBooks, Magnet by
Figg, PayPal, Shift4 Payments, Shopify, Wave, Wix.com,
WordPress.com and Yelp, among others
Visa (NYSE:V), alongside nearly 20 leading small business
solution providers, today announced a new online resource for small
businesses, Visa Small Business Hub, to help entrepreneurs build
stronger customer relationships and expand their businesses. With a
focus on how to start, run and grow a strong, digitally-enabled
business, Visa Small Business Hubs are now live in more than 20
countries and tailored to each region’s unique SMB needs. Each
Small Business Hub delivers a broad range of tools, special partner
offers and actionable tips that business owners can easily
implement to improve their businesses.
“The global economy won’t bounce back until small businesses
bounce back,” said Mary Kay Bowman, global head of buyer and seller
solutions, Visa. “Visa was founded on the idea that safe, fast and
reliable digital payments should be available to everyone,
everywhere. Today, we are more focused on this than ever, with the
added goal of building simple and effective tools that small
business owners can use to help make a real difference.”
In good times and challenging ones alike, small businesses and
micro entrepreneurs power the global economy. Small businesses not
only contribute half of all jobs globally1, they are the heart of
local communities. Despite their importance, business owners often
lack access to training, technology and financial tools that enable
growth. The U.S. Visa Small Business Hub offers centralized access
to information and Visa partners that focus on three main stages of
the small business lifecycle:
- Starting Your Business. Beyond the initial big idea or
plan to offer a new service, starting a business involves figuring
out funding, assessing start-up costs, attracting customers, among
other steps. The Visa Small Business Hub offers information and
tools useful at this stage, and help from Visa partners including
3dcart, PayPal, Shift4 Payments, Tailor Brand,
Wix.com and WordPress.com, as well as Visa’s own small
business payments platform Authorize.Net.
- Running Your Business. No matter what stage a business
is in, Visa Small Business Hub has tools to help manage finances,
start selling online or tips on converting more browsers into
buyers. Deluxe, FreshBooks, Lendio, Plastiq, Shopify
and Wave provide deals, as well as educational resources,
about financing, expenses and more.
- Growing Your Business. Reputation management and
marketing are not only critical to driving sales, they can help
build lasting customer connections particularly in an increasingly
digital world. Learn how to effectively get the word out about your
business and source support from Facebook Blueprint,
Magnet by Figg, Trustpilot, Womply and Yelp.
“Navigating the waves of recovery brings unique challenges for
small business owners. Meeting consumer demands for digital-first
experiences can and should be a seamless undertaking, especially
when resources can be found in a single place like the Visa Small
Business Hub,” said Carleigh Jaques, senior vice president and
general manager, CyberSource, Visa. “Authorize.Net’s payment and
fraud solutions, expansive partner network and 24/7 customer
service, can help businesses fast-track and grow their commerce
with no monthly gateway fee for new customers until August 1,
2020.”
Visa is committed to helping micro and small businesses bounce
back from the current environment. As a company that enables
digital payments at more than 61 million merchant locations around
the world, Visa’s priority is to help micro and small businesses
thrive at every step.
- Earlier this week, Visa committed to digitally-enabling 50
million micro and small businesses worldwide in the wake of the
COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis.
- In April, the Visa Foundation announced a commitment of two
programs totaling $210 million to support small and micro
businesses to address an urgent need from local communities
following the spread of COVID-19.
To learn more about resources available to micro and small
businesses from Visa, visit the Small Business Hub and COVID-19
relief sources.
About Visa
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is the world’s leader in digital payments.
Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative,
reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals,
businesses and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing
network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the
world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction
messages a second. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is
a catalyst for the rapid growth of digital commerce on any device
for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to
digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and
scale to reshape the future of commerce. For more information,
visit About Visa,
visa.com/blog and @VisaNews.
1 World Bank Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Finance
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