Dow Jones Newswires, reported that small businesses are of opinion that, the increase in tax rates will effect business investment and hiring plans at large. Tax cuts proposed by President George W. Bush are to expire at the end of this year. In this regard, Obama has proposed new tax policies such as, extending the […]
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 […]
In the present situation, having the Internet is not sufficient for any kind of businesses irrespective of their size. It is more important that the band width used in internet connections is updated by using latest technology. Using fibre, increases the speed of the internet, besides having benefits of future proof service, longevity, scaleability and […]
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 […]
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 […]
According to a report by business ISP, Easy net Connect, there is huge change in the outlook of business by SMEs. 51% (up from 35% in 2008) of them are planning to adopt cloud computing as they think that it will help them save money. 43% (up from 35% in 2008) believe that cloud computing […]
In 2008, out of the total 20 million enterprises present in the European Union, 99.8% are SMEs, whereas only 43,000 are large scale enterprises. In the period of 2002-2008, the number of SMEs grew faster when compared to the number of LSEs. Among the Smes, the micro and small firms showed highest growth rates. During […]
The GDP figures of last quarter of 2009, show that the UK economy had emerged from recession. According to a study by Easy Connect, overall 84% of businesses believe that the economy will show growth, but, of them only 5% say it to take place in the next 3 months, 21% say that it may […]
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 […]
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 […]