10 Rising Small Business Trends in 2016

New payment technologies, consumer interests and business needs will shape 2016 into an interesting year. Here are ten trends you as a business owner should take full advantage of and adopt them.

Millennials: 86 percent of millennials are willing to provide insight on their consumer habits and decision-making processes, often through the use of online surveys.

Business Intelligence:New self-service tools prove that business intelligence is no rocket science but rather a useful tool to help turning data into informed decisions.

58 percent of consumers say they are willing to add items to their virtual shopping carts to meet the free-shipping threshold.

If you want to consolidate your presence in your customers’ minds and make them stay with you, you must respond to or even forecast their needs.

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Web Presence: 97 percent of Internet users conduct online research on local products and services before committing to a purchase.

Cloud Storage: Small businesses will be able to reduce overhead by cutting their IT payroll and hardware expenses.

EMV PAYMENT SECURITY: The national migration to EMV(Europay, MasterCard and Visa) payment standards ( microchip debit and credit cards) is virtually guaranteed to safeguard small businesses and their customers against fraud over the next year.

Visual Content:Colored visuals increase people's willingness to read a piece of content by 80%.

Selling Via Social Media: Consumer adoption rate for buy buttons is forecasted to be high and will have a huge impact on 2016 sales.

Online Lending: In US online lenders have grown 175 percent a year, as business owners create demand for a more personalized and flexible approach to finance.

Which of the trends would you like to pick?