{"id":36488,"date":"2021-11-12T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T10:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/act.com\/big-data-for-small-business-guide\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:02:28","slug":"big-data-for-small-business-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.act.com\/en-gb\/guides\/big-data-for-small-business-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Big data for small business guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"actcrm-page-banner-container standard \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.act.com\/wp-content\/themes\/act-crm\/assets\/images\/actcrm-hero-banner.jpg);\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"page-banner-row\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"page-banner-text\">\n\t\t\t\t<h1>Big Data for Small Business Guide<\/h1>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1748512389871{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gap=&#8221;30&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1748512176847{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1748522577793{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>About this guide<\/h2>\n<p>Valuable business intelligence is not just a resource available to major corporations with huge budgets. 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