While more than 70
percent of businesses plan to increase recruiting through social media, only 40 percent said they would increase spending through online job portals.
Not exact matches
A new study shows 40
percent of small
business owners
plan to make a hire in the next six months.
Trump's
plan proposes a new tax rate
of 25
percent for the pass - through income
of «small and family - owned
businesses.»
Our survey found that nearly 60
percent of respondents from small - and medium - sized
businesses plan to hire anywhere from two to five positions this year.
(The ACA has been in effect for larger employers — those with 100 or more employees — since the beginning
of 2015) This is called the employer mandate, and generally speaking, such
business owners must offer
plans that cover a minimum
of 60
percent of plan expenses, and must cost no more than 9.5
percent of an employee's annual household income.
Los Angeles - based EHarmony
plans to launch its recruitment service - Elevated Careers - in 2016, and expects the
business to contribute about 60
percent of the company's revenue within three years.
The Commerce Department revised March orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, which are seen as a measure
of business spending
plans, to show them falling 0.4
percent instead
of dipping 0.1
percent as reported last month.
A full 94.35
percent of business - owner respondents stated they were
planning to vote in November, with 4.54
percent undecided and a mere 1.11
percent not intending to cast a ballot.
What's more, while 95
percent of small
businesses are organized as pass - throughs (based on 2014 Treasury Dept. data) rather than traditional C - corporations, the CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small
Business Survey found the most support (68
percent) for the tax
plan among C - corps — which would receive the flat corporate tax - rate reduction to 20
percent.
Small
businesses across the country support the Republican tax reform
plan, with 55
percent saying they are in favor
of seeing a tax bill passed.
According to a 2013 survey, 74
percent of small
businesses did not have a disaster recovery
plan.
Of 26,000 startup
business failures reviewed by Zoetis, 67
percent had no written strategic
plan.
A survey by the Global
Business Travel Association (GBTA) found that 45
percent of its European members were less likely to
plan travel to the U.S. after the restrictions were announced.
With less than half
of companies rating their customer experience as exceptional yet 89
percent saying that they
plan to compete primarily on the basis
of customer experience by 2016, according to a recent Gartner report,
businesses certainly have a lot
of work to do.
According to a survey
of small
business owners by Travelers Insurance, nearly 44
percent of all U.S. small
businesses do not have a written
business continuity
plan, or any other type
of document, that explains what will happen to the
business in the event
of serious weather emergencies.
The move, which would dramatically pare down federal regulations on small
businesses (earlier in the day, Trump told reporters he wants to eliminate «a little more than 75
percent»
of the current regulations), is not unexpected — Trump included the executive order in his
plan for his first 100 days in office.
In a survey, 79
percent of companies said they are either currently using or
plan to use social media, but many
businesses are still uncertain
of what to do with it.
The company expects the Final Rate Notice to result in a 3.00
percent (e) rate increase for Humana's individual Medicare Advantage
business versus CMS» estimate for the sector
of 3.50
percent, excluding the impact
of Employer Group Waiver
Plan (EGWP) funding changes, on a comparable basis.
To that point, 34
percent of entrepreneurs don't currently have a retirement savings
plan, according to a new survey by Manta, an online community for small
businesses.
A recent MIT study found that when identical
business -
plan videos were narrated by either male or female voices, respondents chose the
plans presented by males 68
percent of the time.
An estimated 40
percent of businesses without a disaster recovery
plan, which includes having
business insurance, fail once calamity hits for lack
of funds to cover downtime.
Twenty - seven
percent of all small -
business owners said they
plan to pull back on spending, versus 19
percent in the retail trade, the lowest level
of pullback among the five sectors for which there are enough respondents to split out sector - level results.
A 2009 report by consulting giant Deloitte found that
plans with less than $ 1 million in assets, like those
of many small
businesses, routinely were paying as much as 2
percent «all - in,» or the total
of all fees.
Eight
percent were content with the current level
of business, one
percent plan to scale back, and three
percent expect to close.
Indeed, 57
percent of business owners
plan to hire over the coming 12 months, the survey says.
Only about three
percent of small -
business owners will be affected by the President's
plan to let the Bush tax cuts expire on the highest income earners.
What's more, the majority
of small -
business owners are
planning to sustaining or growing their
business over the next year, and 31
percent plan on hiring more employees, while 56
percent anticipate their staffing needs will remain consistent.
According to
business and life coach Tony Robbins, 80
percent of people give up on their New Year's resolutions by the second week
of February because they don't have a solid
plan in place.
Dorsey disclosed in Square's IPO filing earlier this month that he
plans to donate 40 million shares, or 10
percent of the company, to a charity foundation he started that invests in artists, musicians and local
businesses.
A recent poll
of American Millennials found that 16
percent are
planning to start their own
businesses, and 8
percent already have started one.
Another compelling finding from the SurePayroll survey: 21
percent of small
business owners say they
plan to seek loans in 2012, with banks as their primary source
of obtaining extra capital.
A Republican tax - cut
plan due to be unveiled on Wednesday is expected to call for a new rate for «pass - through»
businesses of about 25
percent.
According to the most recent Spark
Business Barometer report commissioned by my company, Capital One, only 24
percent of 400 small
businesses surveyed offer a 401 (k) or retirement
plan.
We also found that 68
percent of those with no
plans for
business growth are women.
Yelp noted that over the same earnings period, roughly 40
percent of its ads were displayed on mobile devices, underscoring the evolving ways consumers search for
businesses and things to do on the fly instead
of planning ahead before leaving home.
Sure, 82
percent of the more than 1,000 small -
business owners we surveyed said they are
planning for growth this year.
The linchpin
of the
plan is the reduction
of the corporate tax rate to 20
percent from 35
percent and establishment
of a 25
percent tax rate for «pass through»
businesses, which currently pay income tax rates as high as 39.6
percent.
According to a 2010 report by the Joint Committee on Taxation, the official scorekeeper for Congress, about 3
percent of people who report
business income would face a tax increase under Obama's
plan.
According to the survey, 81
percent of small
business owners say they're
planning to invest in more technology in the year ahead.
Schroeder says that using a 401 (k) Profit Sharing
Plan, you can put away up to $ 52,000 tax - free for 2014 (or $ 57,500 if you are over 50) and $ 53,000 for 2015, depending on the earnings
of your
business for the year (which, Schroeder notes, are limited to 25
percent of compensation).
The
plan would create a new 25
percent tax rate for «pass - through»
businesses — sole proprietorships, partnerships and S corporations that currently pay taxes at the individual rate
of their owners.
According to Syracuse University professor Carl Schramm, author
of Burn the
Business Plan, «Americans who are 35 or older are 50 percent more likely to start a business than are their younger counterparts
Business Plan, «Americans who are 35 or older are 50
percent more likely to start a
business than are their younger counterparts
business than are their younger counterparts.»
Healthcare reforms will create significant uncertainty in long - term
planning for 71.6
percent of franchisee respondents, and 10.4
percent agreed with the statement: «We are no longer confident that our
business model is profitable.»
Businesses are catching on fast, as 84
percent of top - performing companies either are or are
planning to use marketing automation by the end
of 2015.
Yahoo announced
plans on Tuesday to cut 15
percent of its workforce and said the company is exploring «strategic options» for its struggling Internet
business.
According to the Tax Policy Center, Trump's
plan includes the ability for pass - through entities to elect a maximum rate for «
business income»
of 15
percent.
«Exclusivity is a great customer loyalty tool, and we
plan to grow that offering to 40
percent of our
business.
According to the United States Government Accountability Office, between 51 and 71
percent of small
business employees don't have access to a workplace retirement savings
plan.
That's because 91
percent of the local
businesses surveyed said entrepreneurs
plan to reward their employees with holiday - related perks, including bonuses, office closure and a holiday party.
Some
of this sentiment may be due to their past experiences, with 5
percent having been turned down for a
business loan, and now report they no longer
plan to reapply.