On Black Friday, most people go to big stores that offer the best deals, like Best Buy, Walmart, etc. But some people wait one more day to do their holiday shopping so that they can support small, local businesses. Well, we really love small businesses and the fact that theres a day to celebrate them thats officially recognized by the U.S. Senate. Since its not until the very end of the month, we have a bit of counting down to do. While we try to give small business as many resources as we can via our blog and social media channels , were amping it up a bit this month. Well be posting content thats specific to small businesses more often, and branching out in the type of advice and resources we provide them. As a way to introduce this countdown to the blog, we thought wed start off with a great infographic from Docstoc with a few great numbers about visit site small business: The Small Business Administration defines a small business as an enterprise with fewer than 500 employees. ( Tweet this stat ) There are almost 28 million small businesses in the U.S.
Survey: Small Businesses Frustrated with Congress
Prior to the partial government shutdown, just over 40% of business owners said they expected their fourth quarter to be better than their third quarter. Now, just 27% are feeling as positively in this regard. Overall optimism also took a dip to 62%, falling ten percentage points from July. Southern States Show Strength Looking at hiring and employee pay, southern states are coming out on top. While hiring stayed flat in the South month-over-month, it decreased slightly in every other region, with the nationwide average landing at negative 0.1%. Additionally, the South was the only region that saw employee pay per check on the rise, growing 0.2%; nationally, employee pay stayed flat. And when it comes to employee pay by city, Southern cities are leading the charge, with Texas metro areas showing particularly strong results.
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