Sentences with phrase «of business owners saying»

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

New hires make the decision whether they want to stay with an organization within their first year of employment, 90 percent of business owners said in Aberdeen's New Hire Onboarding 2013: A Look At New Hires Report.

Similarly, 72 percent of business owners said they expect their financial situation 12 months from now to be good, an increase of one percentage point from the first quarter; 11 percent said they expect their situation to be poor, a decrease of one percentage point from the first quarter.

A number of business owners say the company's salespeople convinced them to sign up for its CreditBuilder credit - rehab service by telling them that their credit ratings had gone down.

Eighty percent of business owners said they are optimistic about the financial outlook of their businesses over the next 12 months, and 71 percent of business owners said their businesses had improved over the last year.

More than half (57 percent) said the national economy has improved over the last year, and about a quarter of business owners said their businesses had benefited a great deal from the improved national economy over the past year.

In a recent survey, 70 % of business owners said they wanted to use teleseminars as part of their marketing, but 70 % also said they'd never done a teleseminar.

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«What has upset business owners more than anything are the comparisons made between the income of small business owners and that of employees,» Dan Kelly, the federation's president, said in an op - ed published at the Huffington Post on Aug. 25.

Said Connie Steele, director of Network Solutions: «Social media can be the best friend for small business owners who constantly seek new ways to attract new customers and retain the ones they have at a relatively low cost.»

Expanding coverage for small business owners is one of the main reasons for passing the legislation, its supporters say.

Beyond this sense of optimism, seven out of 10 business owners said they fared the same or better than they did a year ago in the fourth quarter.

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According to the Wells Fargo / Gallup study, women business owners said their top three sources of initial funding for their business are cash or savings (85 percent), personal credit cards (37 percent) and financial gifts or support from family or friends (29 percent).

More than 60 percent of the 320 women business owners surveyed by Forbes Insight and KeyBank's Key4Woman said that they don't track social media to find out what they're customers are saying about them.

Of the respondents who are already business owners and live in highly - developed economies, 78 percent said they choose to launch their ventures because they saw opportunities, not because they were forced to by economic necessity.

«One of the reasons business owners innovate and start businesses and try to create something new is the potential for a reward down the road,» says Kelly.

Sometimes I hear from business owners who say it's difficult getting hold of their CPA, particularly during tax season.

«As a business owner and trial attorney, anxiety is a natural and healthy thing,» says Robert May, founder of The May Firm.

Blake says that going forward, one solution might be to present options in addition to just the APR, to help business owners really understand the cost of the funds they're borrowing.

«Without strong relationships, it is impossible to have success as a business owner,» says Michael Denisoff, who is the founder and CEO of Denisoff Consulting Group in Redondo Beach, California.

«For a lot of small business owners [starting out], it was kind of sink or swim — it was trial by fire,» says Espinoza.

The difference is that in an S corp, owners pay themselves salaries plus receive dividends from any additional profits the corporation may earn, while an LLC is a «pass - through entity,» which means that all the income and expenses from the business get reported on the LLC operator's personal income tax return, says Ebong Eka, a CPA who also pens his own blog about the world of entrepreneurship at MoneyMentoringMinutes.com.

Space Small business owners «wear so many hats, they usually have pretty limited support staff, and they're idea factories,» says Julie Morgensten, a productivity consultant and the author of Organizing from the Inside Out.

But doing something exciting outside of work «to rebalance the boredom of 9 - to - 5» will only get you so far, said Maite Baron, chief executive officer at The Corporate Escape, a London - based career - transition consultancy that helps disillusioned employees become business owners, in an email.

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«The biggest unused Twitter resource for small business owners is the search.twitter.com function,» says Alexis Wolfer, founder and editor - in - chief of TheBeautyBean.com.

«The percentage of owners citing the difficulty of finding qualified workers as their most important business problem increased and is now third on the list, behind taxes and regulations,» Bill Dunkelberg, the chief economist for NFIB said in a press release.

Aside from uploading new photos of inventory, the experts say business owners should seek to become active in the online community.

Lembree says that business owners with a proclivity to worry that their decisions may come back to bite them down the road should play it cautiously and seek the advice of an IP attorney.

«Years ago when I was very young,» recalls Taffer, the host of TV show «Bar Rescue» and a former business owner, in a recent interview with Business Insider, «a VP of Hyatt looked at me and said, «You look, but you don't see.»business owner, in a recent interview with Business Insider, «a VP of Hyatt looked at me and said, «You look, but you don't see.»Business Insider, «a VP of Hyatt looked at me and said, «You look, but you don't see.»»

Business owners who start to do it usually find it eye - opening, rewarding, and even addictive, says Brendan Anderson, co-founder and managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Cleveland.

Anderson says that only a small fraction of the hundreds of business owners he meets with every year use a formal system to track and analyze company metrics.

Many of the 1,433 small business owners surveyed expect to live well into their retirement years, with one in three saying they plan to retire older than 70.

(In December 2014, 17 percent of polled business owners said they'd increase wages in the coming months.)

As a result, 26 percent of business owners avoided hiring and expansion because, they said, they were frustrated with trying to access funds.

«Together with other provisions of the Recovery Act, ARC loans will free up capital and put more money in the hands of small business owners when they need it the most,» SBA Administrator Karen Gordon Mills said in a press release.

She said her biggest concern about Brexit is that new business owners won't be able to take advantage of these programs like she did.

He said he understood that many business owners were prevented from fully participating in the economy because of the expense associated with setting up merchant accounts to accept credit cards.

Moreover, there is a stipulation in the proposal which says the 25 percent pass - through rate applies only to passive owners of these businesses.

Mark Wolf, director of the Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute, says the traditional concept of retirement isn't realistic for small businessBusiness Research Institute, says the traditional concept of retirement isn't realistic for small businessbusiness owners.

Among the things that may have contributed to future sentiments are uncertainty about the country's fiscal stability, taxes, and consumer spending, all of which could severely impact small business owners, Bernstein says.

And the more time the business owners spent running their businesses, the more they loathed the task — 58 percent of business owners working 60 or more hours a week said that bookkeeping was particularly draining.

He says: «When I'm dealing with a business owner, I always try to point out to him or her that concentration of assets is a very risky proposition.

But in a new survey of 250 business owners by Bank of America's Merrill Lynch division, only 39 % said they used an expert — like a management consultant, financial adviser or commercial banker — to develop a succession plan.

Most puts are timed to include a three - year payout schedule, «so that it's generally not until the end of the eighth year,» says Shattan, «that business owners have to come up with all that cash.»

A sizable number of business owners (about a third) said after selling their companies, they planned to start new businesses.

Once you have registered in an amnesty program, all sales tax issues your company faces in the future will be under state scrutiny, says Paul N. Gada, senior small - business tax analyst with CCH Business Owner's Toolkit, a division of CCH Tax and Accounting in Riverwoods, Ibusiness tax analyst with CCH Business Owner's Toolkit, a division of CCH Tax and Accounting in Riverwoods, IBusiness Owner's Toolkit, a division of CCH Tax and Accounting in Riverwoods, Illinois.

Wyndham Worldwide Corp., owner of the Ramada and Days Inn brands, said it will spin off its hotel unit into a new publicly traded company and consolidate its timeshare business while exploring strategic alternatives for its European rental brands.

In a recent survey, 59 percent of small business owners said they preferred him.

This last point makes sense for some more than others, says Drew Nordlicht, partner and managing director of Hightower Advisors, San Diego, who advises high - net - worth business owners.