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Small Business Owners Have No Plans To Hire In Coming Months
Newtek Business Services, Inc. announced today the findings of its SB Authority Market Sentiment Survey, a monthly window into the concerns of independent business owners. Based on a poll of over 1,500 respondents, the key finding from the May survey is that only 30% of business owners plan on hiring in the next 3 to 6 months. Additionally, 51% of business owners say their company hires employees who have just graduated from college.
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Organizations Are Unprepared for Technology Shifts to Cloud
At the IBM Edge2014 conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today released preliminary study findings of 750 global organizations revealing less than 10 percent are fully prepared to address the proliferation of cloud computing, analytics, mobile devices and social media.
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Small Businesses Positive about the Internet of Things
The majority of small businesses in the U.S. (82 percent) believe the Internet of Things (IoT) will bring fresh opportunities for their business, according to a new study released today by AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG), the online security company for devices, data and people. While more than 2 out of 5 (46 percent) agreed the IoT will mean more time spent dealing with security hacks, this was more than offset by the 83 percent of respondents who said that human error would continue to give them more concern than smart devices.
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Big Data and Small Business
According to Fox Small Business, despite all the hype about “big data” small businesses should only concern themselves with the data that matters to their business. Information that improves their customer service or business operations is all that really matters.
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Smartphones Save Small Businesses Time
A recent survey commissioned by AT&T and the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council finds that small business owners believe their smartphones save them time, reports Crain’s Cleveland Business. According to the survey results over 56 percent of the respondents reported their smartphone apps saved them three hours per week.
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Small Business Owners Happy with Choices
A new survey by Gallup finds that 8 out of 10 small businesses owners have no regrets about starting a small business. The survey results are basically unchanged for the past 11 years with most of the survey respondents saying they would do it all over again if given a chance.
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Your Business Needs a Termination Policy
According to Newsday, small businesses should have a termination policy. Such a policy offers a clear procedure for evaluating and documenting employee performance, including actions, like termination, that result if an employee fails to improve. The policy can prevent a future lawsuit from a disgruntled former employee claiming unfair termination.
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NetSuite SuiteGL, A Dynamic Business Asset
NetSuite Inc. has unveiled SuiteGL, a new product release packed with breakthrough capabilities for the general ledger component of NetSuite cloud ERP that can enable businesses to tailor general ledger processes to their unique business needs.
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Printer: Business-Focused Features Help Small Workgroups Boost Productivity
Brother International Corporation has launched its new HL-L8000 series color laser printers and MFC-L8000 color laser all-in-ones, designed to offer mobile-friendly, fast color printing for small workgroups in small to medium sized businesses (SMBs).
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No Back Up, No Business
According to Small Business Computing, cloud-based back-up provider Carbonite recently conducted a survey of small businesses and found that 40 percent felt they would go out of business if they lost all of their data files permanently. 58 percent reported that their business couldn't sustain any amount of data loss.
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