Category U.S.A Small Businesses

Benefits of Cloud Servers for Small Businesses

Cloud server is a new kind of server, which is dominating the old-fashioned servers (dedicated servers and shared servers) these days. Cloud servers are becoming more popular nowadays because of some key benefits it is offering to the users which are not there in our old traditional servers.

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Online Security Becomes a Concern For US SMBs

According to Panda Security report on the status of security in SMBs world wide, 58% of SMBs world wide were affected due to lack of security, with Brazil being highly infected with 86% and Germany being least with 8%. The infection ratio at U.S. companies is 46% currently, showing a slight increase from the last […]

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US Small Businesses Use Social Media to Attract New Customers

US small businesses are adopting new strategies to improve the efficiency of the businesses, in time of economic downturn. This is clearly evident as more and more businesses are now looking for social media to promote their businesses. The Small Business Success Index (SBSI) reports, adoption of social media by small businesses had become twice […]

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Online Vendors Offering Free Shipping are Favored by U.S SMBs

According to a recent survey by Staple, about 99% of the SMBs say, they select a retailer online based on free shipping offered by them. Small businesses find say that, saving money and time is imperative, hence they order their business requirements online. It was also found that 46% of them also feel that, it […]

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SBA Scorecard Measures Performance of U.S Small business Contracting

SBA released it’s first-ever Small Business Procurement Scorecard, in August, which helps the agencies in measuring their achievements as well as progress in making contracting opportunities available, in improving the accuracy of contracting data and also providing the public an opportunity to assess agencies’ performance in meeting these goals. The function of scorecard is that, […]

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U.S SMBs Not Finding Social Media Advantageous

According to a survey by UPS, 24 percent of small businesses have seen increase in sales due to social media, and only 1% had ageed that social media was helpful in their business growth. This leads to assumption that 99% of the SMBs don’t think social media as helpful source. This situation may be attributed […]

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Queries of Small Business Owners are Answered Online:

If you are planing to run a small business or you are already in to a small business, you may have many queries about running of the business such as regarding, investments, raising capital, hiring employees, acquiring customers, production of products, creating value for business, etc. These queries require valuable suggestions or answers from experts […]

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Lending Freeze Hits U.S Small Businesses hard

According to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business, reports that only 50% of the small businesses have borrowed to meet their business needs. The freezing of lending, started with the start of recession, in 2007. According to Federal Reserve’s Survey of quarterly Senior Loan Officer Opinion, states that in October 2008 the […]

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70% of Indian SMEs optimistic about the growth in 2010

Constant Contact along with its partners, with ACCE, SCORE, and ASBDC partners conducted a survey on Small Business Attitudes and Outlook Survey for the year 2010. 70 percent of the respondents showed confidence in growth of their businesses in 2010, of these 39% already planning to hire additional employees. On being asked about the overall […]

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79% of SMEs Confident about Neutral Outlook of US Economy

Small Business Attitudes and Outlook Survey, by Constant Contact Inc. reported that 79% of the SMEs are confident about the neutral outlook of US economy for the next 12 months. 52% of the respondents said that they were confident that their businesses will show a moderate growth in 2010, while 18% of them were confident […]

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