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Multi-site merchants are faced with numerous challenges.  This is why the franchising model continues to grow in its success.  However, many independent business owners continue to operate multiple locations without going out to the franchise market.  Obviously, it is impossible to be in more than one place at the same time.  So, owners must build a solid and trustworthy team of people around them to ensure profitability.

In the past few years, quite a bit of buzz has revolved around “the cloud.”  Consequently, quite a bit of confusion exists around “the cloud.”  Cloud computing, affectionately dubbed as “the cloud” is the wave of the future.  It allows end users and business owners to rely less on their own hardware and technology infrastructure.  By definition, “Cloud computing is the delivery of computing and storage capacity ^[1] as a service ^[2] to a community of end-recipients. The name comes from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol ^[3] as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams ^[4]. Cloud computing entrusts services with a user's data, software and computation over a network.”  However, like all things technical, cloud computing comes in a few flavors which can create even more confusion on the topic.

In the past few months, we have had more customers open their 2^nd location than ever before.  For most small business merchants, the opening of that 2^nd location is a pivotal point in the success of the enterprise.  The advent of the 2nd location typically indicates that the small business owner has had enough success at the 1^st location to both fund and merit the opening of the 2^nd location.  It also suggests that a 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th location are likely to be feasible and could possibly be right around the corner.  Needless to say, adding the 2^nd location to the business is an exciting time for the merchant.