{"id":783816,"date":"2024-07-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=783816"},"modified":"2024-07-23T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T08:51:21","slug":"business-talk-gerhard-hartman-on-sages-powerful-smb-payroll-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/783816\/business-talk-gerhard-hartman-on-sages-powerful-smb-payroll-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Gerhard Hartman on Sage\u2019s powerful SMB payroll solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Sage Africa and Middle East VP of Medium Business Gerhard Hartman discusses how Sage helps SMBs streamline their payroll processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hartman has worked at Sage for nearly 20 years and has extensive experience helping SMBs achieve their full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his current role, Hartman is at the helm of Sage\u2019s strategic expansion of its accounting, human resources, and payroll businesses across Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This involves developing business strategies to drive sales, improve operations, and increase profit margins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hartman also focuses heavily on acquiring new customers and up-selling and cross-selling to Sage\u2019s existing customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His objective is always to deliver a great customer experience to ensure that new and existing clients become Sage customers for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Hartman explains how Sage has worked with SMBs for many years to help them streamline their payrolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He expands upon Sage\u2019s SMB payroll offerings and explains how they help small-to-medium businesses manage their human capital effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hartman then discusses the unique benefits cloud payroll solutions offer smaller businesses, addressing the misconception that they are only for large corporates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concludes the interview by explaining how Sage makes it simple for SMBs to transition onto its cloud-based solutions &#8211; and how Sage offers free trials to companies so they can \u201ctry before they buy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Gerhard Hartman below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Business Talk - Gerhard Hartman unpacks Sage\u2019s SMB payroll solutions main offerings and key features\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M_wZzmiK5H8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sage Africa and Middle East VP of Medium Business Gerhard Hartman explains why SMBs must embrace modern, cloud-based payroll solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":783818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[1174,15578,20258,1033,20260],"class_list":["post-783816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-africa","tag-business-talk","tag-gerhard-hartman","tag-sage","tag-smb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783826,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783816\/revisions\/783826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}