With only one month left in 2019, this may be the most important time for your small business all year.

Then tomorrow is Small Business Saturday, a day set specifically aside for small businesses.

So take a look at the stories below as well as all of the other content on Small Business Trends.

Black Friday and Small Business SaturdayBlack Friday Business Deals You Can’t MissRemember: Black Friday isn’t over yet!

Startup10 Awesome Tips to Help Your Small Business Earn More MoneyWant to make more money in your small business? | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575063006.7677748/In-The-News:-This-May-Be-the-Most-Important-Time-for-Your-Small-Business-All-Year?ref=audio_experience

There are many challenges in cyber security, and data tokenization represents a very effective solution for protecting sensitive data.

In the most fundamental terms, tokenization is a process where a nonsensitive token substitutes for sensitive data.

This data token represents the sensitive data and maps to it through a specific system that cannot be reversed.

Increased SecurityThe most obvious benefit is that data tokenization technology enhances security.

Tokenization is a technology that substitutes a token of noncritical data for sensitive data. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575061317.1977353/The-5-Key-Benefits-Of-Data-Tokenization?ref=audio_experience

Contxto – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced that US$600,000 are tagged to finance small agriculture farmers in Chiapas using blockchain technology.

Likewise in other parts of the region, like Brazil, small producers constitute almost 40 percent of the food produced in their localities.

Despite these numbers, small farmers are greatly overlooked and have limited access to technology and financing.

For example, the use of satellite imaging to review crops’ status can help farmers make more informed decisions, as Peruvian Agros and Brazilian Agronow have shown.

Drones can also help save small farmers a lot of their precious time to scan their fields. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575059408.1823144/Inter-American-Development-Bank-will-use-US$600,000-to-help-small-Mexican-farmers-through-blockchain?ref=audio_experience

Tell us what your business does:We are an Airbnb property management company specialising in short-term holiday lets.

We have been running a cleaning business for the past three years and within that we have gained two clients who we started cleaning their Airbnb properties for them.

As we clean for several Airbnb properties, we saw they were being let out each week and even being let out each day.

We have been building up and growing our cleaning business.

It is very different from our cleaning business. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575057718.8844497/Let’s-Manage-U:-Sian-and-Rhys-Morgan?ref=audio_experience

The existence of Amazon AssistantFurthermore, Amazon already has a shopping assistant: Amazon Assistant.

If Alexa was any good at shopping, Amazon wouldn’t have to build out a separate assistant for its main business.

Ask Alexa what the worst shopping website is.

Amazon’s voice recognition can distinguish between the words “best” and “worst”, but apparently Alexa doesn’t understand the difference.

Until Alexa becomes smarter (and Amazon is making improvements monthly), the Amazon Assistant will have to do. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575055806.5075262/ProBeat:-Alexa,-what-is-the-worst-shopping-website?-‘I’m-a-big-fan-of-Amazon.’?ref=audio_experience

For those Brazilians curious about their cultural heritage, now they can take an at-home DNA test thanks to Mendelics.

The Brazilian laboratory recently launched meuDNA, the first testing kit to hit the market in Latin America’s largest country.

It is the love-child of Mendelics and its newly acquired R$45 million (about US$10.6 million) from MCLC4 in a recent financial round.

What this new initiative boils down to is the promotion of unhindered access to genetic data.

In other words, “DNA as a service!”Of course, that claim opens a whole Pandora’s genome of questions. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575054008.071104/Mendelics-debuts-at-home-DNA-test-in-Brazil,-meuDNA,-potentially-opening-a-Pandora’s-genome?ref=audio_experience

Now, POS systems (point-of-sale systems) have become an expected part of the hospitality scene.

Read on if you are curious to learn how these POS systems are changing, and why you need to pay attention.

Cloud-Based POS Systems Are a Game-ChangerA cloud-based POS system has changed the game for many business owners, allowing for greater mobility and enhanced data capabilities.

Some POS systems are so advanced that they can record customer activity and even aggregate these activities into different levels.

These can include CRM systems, accounting systems, front and back machines, and even smart appliances and technologies. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575052308.110358/How-POS-Systems-Are-Changing-–-Running-Your-Business?ref=audio_experience

According to the documents, OrbCare and its subsidiaries, Pariscribe and OrbCare US, each filed for bankruptcy on November 13 after failing to file an alternative proposal under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, to avoid bankruptcy proceedings.

At the same time, the team behind OrbCare has set up a new company under the name Adracare, which operates in a similar business to OrbCare.

According to court documents filed in October obtained by BetaKit, OrbCare was unable to attract a buyer through that process.

Court documents obtained by BetaKit ostensibly referred to an iGan purchase of OrbCare as the best possible outcome.

Court documents obtained by BetaKit ostensibly referred to an iGan purchase of OrbCare as the best possible outcome for all stakeholders. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575050405.9754605/OrbCare-files-for-bankruptcy-after-failing-to-find-buyer,-team-launches-new-company-instead?ref=audio_experience

So one of the things I was really interested in learning more about at last week’s Dreamforce event was seeing how Salesforce’s voice technology – Einstein Voice – was coming along.

But while I was there I was able to chat for a few minutes with Michael Machado, Salesforce’s Senior Director of Product for Einstein Voice and Deep Learning.

Michael Machado: We’ve come a humongous way.

And that’s where I actually think Voice is.

Voice CRM ExpectationsSmall Business Trends: What are they telling you? | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575048606.7869186/Michael-Machado-of-Salesforce:-Voice-CRM-is-the-Future?ref=audio_experience

This post is also available in: Español (Spanish)Contxto – I’m thrilled to say that we’re approaching our first anniversary in rude health.

Back in December 2018, when we wrote our very first blog entry, Contxto was just a one-man show.

In those early days, that same audience started to share their articles with us to publish on our blog.

There you’ll find opinion columns, informative articles, and just good old-fashioned interesting reads from submitted pieces sent to our editorial team.

We promise to read every single submission, but we don’t promise to publish them all. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575046806.9650726/Morning-Coffee:-Submit-your-article!?ref=audio_experience