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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.

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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 GoogBusiness 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 Googbusiness 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.