Capital One’s, quarterly poll called, Small Business Barometer, was conducted in July on around 2,000 businesses having less than $10 million annual revenue. The survey reports various findings regarding small businesses. Among the various findings, the poll also surveyed on impact of oil spill in Gulf, on the nation’s SMBs. Only quarter of nation’s small […]

According to a survey conducted by Manta, it was seen that, though small businesses are hiring, the rate at which they are adding employees to their companies is very slow. This has led to the decrease in hiring rate. 47 percent said they hired new employees in 2010 and 33 percent plan to hire this […]

Small businesses constitute to about 99.7 percent of total businesses in the United States and they are supposed to employ more than 55 million American citizens. A survey called “NFIB Small Business Economic Trends” was conducted on the 3,50,000 member businesses of NFIB, in May 2010. The survey was helpful in getting figures about, increased […]