By 2018, 26 percent of respondents expect their business to still be largely where it is today and 8
percent say their business could potentially be closed down.
Facebook is the leading platform for marketers with 96
percent saying their business is actively using it.
Three - fourths of small business owners said the economy is on the right track for their businesses to grow, and 83
percent said their businesses are positioned to take advantage of a strong economy in the next year.
According to a Pew study last fall, 49 percent of Americans said that all businesses should serve same - sex weddings, while 47
percent said business owners should be allowed to follow their personal religious convictions.
Of 83 business owners and executives that responded, 61 percent reported higher sales over the past year; 78 percent expect sales to increase over the next year; and 68
percent said their business is doing better today than it was at this time last year.
• Who has right ideas for public education: 81 percent of parents said they believe teachers have the right ideas for their public schools; 77 percent said principals have the right ideas; 70 percent gave the nod to parent organizations; 39 percent said their governor has the right ideas; 37 percent had confidence in mayors / local officials; and 33
percent said business owners / corporate executives have the right ideas.
Not exact matches
That's partly because 94
percent of investing partners at venture firms are male and, female entrepreneurs
say, less likely to understand the potential of a
business that specifically targets women as customers.
The Swedish tax structure is favorable to
businesses, especially when compared with that of China and the U.S. Sweden has a corporate tax rate of 22
percent — far higher than,
say, Ireland's 12.5
percent, but lower than the United States» high - end rate of 35
percent.
PARIS, May 3 - Veolia
said first - quarter revenue climbed by 3.7
percent to 6.4 billion euros as its French water
business returned to growth and international activities showed double - digit growth, with new services driving earnings.
With this kind of service
business, 90
percent margins is within the realm of possibility,» Cramer
said.
A 2015 report from Deloitte found that 34
percent of U.S. workers are contract employees, and 51
percent of the 3,300
business leaders surveyed
said their need for contingent workers will only grow in the next three - to - five years.
«If you ask how they're doing,» Will
says, «most entrepreneurs will
say, «Things are great,» or, «We're crushing it,» and maybe for 1
percent of
businesses, that's true.
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).
According to The Future of
Business survey conducted by Facebook in collaboration with the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 42 percent of businesses polled said that learning from one other is one of the main ways they figure out how to run a business in a mobile - first economy — second only to Goog
Business survey conducted by Facebook in collaboration with the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 42
percent of
businesses polled
said that learning from one other is one of the main ways they figure out how to run a
business in a mobile - first economy — second only to Goog
business in a mobile - first economy — second only to Googling it.
PARIS, May 3 - Veolia
said first - quarter revenue climbed by 3.7
percent to 6.4 billion euros as its French water
business returned to growth and international activities also showed double - digit growth, with new services driving earnings.
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.
Shares of the company, which makes aluminum products used in airplanes and trucks, fell 17.8
percent as the company also
said high prices squeezed margins across its
businesses in the first quarter.
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.
That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland — including homes, industry and
businesses — was 41,866 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland
said, meaning that wind power produced the equivalent of 206
percent of the nation's needs.
Small
businesses flocked to social media in 2009, with their adoption of the technology doubling from 12
percent to 24
percent,
says a new University of Maryland / Network Solutions study.
«Last year, we saw a 28
percent rise in sales volumes for our small
business merchants versus the same day in 2009,»
said Mary Ann Fitzmaurice Reilly, senior vice president, American Express OPEN.
More than 60
percent of
businesses say they are not capable of handling customer issues in one contact in social media.
In all, the co-founders
say they can build a rocket that's 95
percent 3 - D printed, with the exceptions being things like seals and computer chips (though they
say the
business blueprint has them one day printing those as well).
Just two respondents thought that London would retain its top status, while around half (54
percent) of those surveyed
said they didn't believe there would be any single
business center.
Businesses surveyed
said they had put 7
percent into marketing their first year; they should have put in 28
percent, they
said.
Small
business loans at Wells Fargo rose 18
percent last year,
says Lisa Stevens, head of small
business banking for the San Francisco - based bank.
The
business also
said it was setting itself the goal of slashing its carbon emissions by 80
percent by 2050, compared to 2005 levels.
«There are times you get numb,»
says Gordon J. Vanscoy, whose
business, $ 240.1 million Pantherx Specialty Pharmacy (No. 65, with a 5,318.7
percent three - year growth rate), is riding the Affordable Care Act bronco.
As a benchmark, the average growth rate across all U.S. small
businesses in the time period was 8
percent,
says Libby Bierman, an analyst at Sageworks.
«Eighty - five
percent of salespeople don't slow down enough to really understand their customers»
business,» he
says.
Additionally, 73
percent of consumers
said they preferred to do
business with brands that use personal information to make their shopping experience more relevant.
Generally, community banks have been key players in small
business lending, Mills
said, citing data that shows community banks approved 48
percent of small
business loans, while larger institutions approved only 13
percent.
Nearly two - thirds (61
percent) of survey espondents
said that there was an increase in
business succession in 2012 and about 57
percent forecast a continued rise next year.
In fact, 75
percent of the executives
said that their primary purpose for seeking content is to research a
business idea.
And 72
percent of consumers
said that positive reviews make them trust a local
business more.
(In December 2014, 17
percent of polled
business owners
said they'd increase wages in the coming months.)
Lextech advisor John Hennessy
says businesses that used the mobile assistant had a more predictable and safer loading process and increased their efficiency by up to 20
percent.
As a result, 26
percent of
business owners avoided hiring and expansion because, they
said, they were frustrated with trying to access funds.
«The UK has other
business ahead of that right now which is figuring out its relationship with Europe before it figures out its relationship with the United States,» Fratto
said, adding that the EU - UK trade represents 40
percent of the U.K. economy.
Moreover, there is a stipulation in the proposal which
says the 25
percent pass - through rate applies only to passive owners of these
businesses.
Within the previous year, the survey revealed, 20
percent of the small
businesses surveyed
said they had considered shutting down, primarily because of lack of growth or cash - flow issues.
Those kinds of struggles had led 53
percent of those small
businesses to apply for funding or credit lines over the past five years — and more than one in four
said they had sought loans multiple times.
According to Constant Contact, 84
percent of people
say that the biggest difference in small
businesses between now and five years ago is the use of more online marketing tools.
«A bigger move,
say outside of a 20
percent band, might destroy confidence and make it harder for small
business to raise money, or even to sell to larger companies who might be more worried about their viability, or ability to deliver on orders placed.»
Irving
says they were memorable and helped brand awareness reach almost 80
percent (high for a company with revenue under $ 2 billion at the time), but they alienated an important segment of his small -
business customers — namely, women.
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.
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.
Deluxe chief brand communication officer Amanda Brinkman, who mentors
businesses in the series alongside Herjavec,
said that 87
percent of consumers prefer to be engaged via email.
In a recent survey, 59
percent of small
business owners
said they preferred him.
In fact, he
said, it was his decision to work with digital marketing expert Adrienne DeVita that helped his
business grow its AdWords profits by 50
percent in 60 days — all while lowering the company's cost per acquisition by up to 70
percent.