According to the survey by National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), by 2014 US small business owners are planning to increase health-care cost as to meet the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act. The NFIB surveyed 921 small business owners are found that, two-third of them reported that they have increased health-care cost this […]
Tag: U.S Small Businesses
Impact of Small and Medium Businesses on US Economy
The number of small businesses in the United States has increased by 49% since 1982. Today, small and medium businesses are the backbone of the country. SMBs contribute a major part in country’s economy and job creation. Following are some facts that will ‘change your mindset’ towards small businesses.
Rate of Hiring in U.S SMBs Improves Slightly
The fact that the U.S small and medium sized businesses are the job creators for the country is reconfirmed by the statistics revealed by U.S Department of Labour, which states that 44% of U.S private payroll is generated by small businesses and 65% of the net new jobs, in the past 17 years. CBIZ Small […]
Data Stealing a Major Concern For U.S SMBs
As per the data from he 2010 corporate end user survey by Trend Micro’s, the small businesses find Viruses, Trojans, data-stealing malware, and leaking of information as biggest IT concerns. This survey included 1600 end users belonging to U.S, U.K, Germany and Japan, who were employed full time with email and internet access at their […]
US SMBs Report Low Earnings Due to Weaker Sales
The National Federation of Independent Business released its Index of Small Business Optimism, which gained 2.7 points, rising to 91.7 in October. The profit trend improved by seven points in October reaching net negative 26%. but still much more percentage of owners complain about decrease in sales quarter after quarter. Of the owners having lower […]
Small Businesses in U.S Have no Hiring Plans
According to National Federation of the Independent Business, inspite of recession being over the small businesses have no plans to hire and further more, 13% are planning to cut jobs during the next three months. The organization also said that the situation had showed positive change in the months of September to October. The survey […]
80% of the U.S SMBs Prefer Advertising Through E-mail
According to Borrell Associates report, it is predicted that the expenditure on local advertising by small businesses in U.S will be increased by 34% by 2013 from the levels of 2008. of the companies planning to increase their expenditure are likely to spend 70% of this budget on paid search and video. “Main Street Goes […]
49% Of U.S SMB Owners Use Smart Phones
49% of owners use a smartphone, for email, phone, and scheduling. Of them 35% own BlackBerrys, 33% own iPhones, and 25% own Androids. But according to Forrester Research lass than 20% of mobile users nationally owned smartphones. Presently, 40% of small business owners are using mobile phones for marketing or are planning to in the […]