Small business owners are now better positioned to compete with their large, online competitors
Providence, Sep 27, 2020 (Issuewire.com) - Providence, Rhode Island based SureUp.com, a network of small businesses, their employees and local consumers forms a strategic partnership with St. Croix, US Virgin Island based SEDI, Inc. d/b/a The Marketplace. The combination empowers small business owners to level the playing field with large online competitors. SureUp.com and The Marketplace have created an end-to-end, turnkey small business e-commerce platform that includes social media marketing, landing pages, an e-commerce store, transaction processing and shipping support.
The platform empowers small business owners struggling to compete in the online environment with the tools to do just that. Essentially a small business owner leverages platform integrated Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to reach interested consumers through social media channels. The platform then provides a frictionless online shopping environment which allows consumers to support their local business community. Once a purchase is complete, the system provides the shipping information along with a shipping label to the business owner enabling the business owner to ship the product. All the business owner must do is pack up the item and ship it out.
Anthony Weeks, CEO of The Marketplace, has been a relentless supporter of small business owners in the Caribbean, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Through his regular radio and television broadcasts and through his online platform JumpStartEconomy.us, Anthony articulates the challenges ahead for small business owners while providing guidance to strengthen their approach. Anthony believes "Small business owners must position themselves to better compete during the upcoming holiday season and beyond or they risk permanently losing ground to large online competitors vying for consumer dollars which will be more limited this year than in recent history."
Brian Phillips, the Managing Partner at SureUp.com, says "The partnership between The Marketplace and SureUp.com provides small business owners with an unmatched opportunity to compete in their industry category. From retail stores to restaurants, to insurance agencies and payroll companies, we all depend on small business owners, their employees and local consumers to support each other. Without that support, our local communities will soon become unrecognizable as multi-generational businesses are forced to close their doors forever. We each have the power and perhaps the obligation to turn this around. And, when businesses leverage the SureUp platform, each of their employees enjoys access to perks like discounts on the things they do every day, subscription-based TeleHealth and TeleTherapy, discounted prescription drug plans, college loan reduction and refinance opportunities, financial health analysis tools and so much more."
Kristofor Behn, Systems Architecture Consultant at New England Fintech, Inc. and facilitator of the strategic partnership between SureUp.com and The Marketplace indicates "Small business owners are the fabric of our communities and provide a character that large online companies eliminate." Behn continues "If we fail to support our small business owners and these businesses close, our local communities will suffer from loss of tax revenue, loss of jobs, and perhaps most importantly, loss of personality. Think about the role of our small business play in our lives; it's where we eat, it's where we shop, it's where we meet our friends and colleagues. Thinking local is easy. The impact of not doing so will be harder than any of us can imagine."
Brian Phillips can be reached for further comment at (800) 770-8919
Anthony Weeks can be reached for further comment at (914) 574-1213
Kristofor Behn can be reached for further comment at (617) 438-9754
Note: SureUp.com, SEDI, Inc. d/b/a The Marketplace and New England FinTech, Inc. are all independent entities and the strategic partnership outlined within this release is not intended to imply otherwise.
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