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According to Discover Small Business Watch, there is again a drop in the confidence levels on economy by small business owners. The small business owners have rated the current economic condition as poor and are expecting that it would get worse. There was also drop in index to 83 in July from 86.1 in June. The index has been below 83 from the starting of the year. The survey has collected Small Business Owners opinions …

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Increase in Installation of Basic Security Software by SMBs

October 12, 2010October 30, 2015 - by bm2209

There was a rather very good improvement when it comes to prioritization and budget for security software and services to protect their customers’ and their own most sensitive data by small and medium sized businesses. Many number of SMBs are now are keeping data security on their top IT priority compared to previous year, according to a Symantec survey. SMB owners have also admitted that they are yet to implement even the most basic data …

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UK SMEs in Data Recovery Failure

October 11, 2010October 30, 2015 - by Gavin Moodie

Many of the small and medium sized businesses in UK are still failing to protect the important data of their firms. This is according to a survey by Vanson Bourne and commissioned by Acronis. About 600 small and medium sized businesses from France, UK and Germany took part in the study. It was accomplished to gauge the differences in backup adn data recovery practices among all the 3 countries. According to the findings of the …

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SMB Ad Spending Grew Up In Q2 2010

October 5, 2010November 27, 2018 - by Jose Barreto

In second-quarter of 2010, there is an increase in search spending of small businesses, according to WebVisible. Small business ad advertisers expenditure on search advertising in second-quarter of 2010 was $2,231 which had an increase by 1.4 percent from first-quarter of 2010 and by 159 percent in second-quarter of 2010. Attorneys, dentists and general contractors were the consistent and most popular advertisers in second-quarter of 2010. There was an increase in seasonal expenditure by landscapers, …

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Small Business polled High Taxes as their Pressing Problem: American Solutions Monthly Small Business Survey

October 1, 2010October 1, 2010 - by Jayden Attard

The policies that are being put forward by the federal government are not solving the problem with the economy, as per the American Solutions monthly Small Business survey. The federal government itself is creating the problem. The high priority problems that small businesses are facing are high taxes and government regulation. Around 40,000 small business owners were questioned about their small businesses and the most compelling issues that they are facing by the American Solutions …

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Increase in Lending of Credit by Banks to Small Businesses

September 25, 2010October 30, 2015 - by Gavin Moodie

It is the end of recession period. Many banks are identifying the importance of lending programs for small businesses. When small businesses have strong economic position, automatically more new jobs will be created and it will also strengthen country’s economy. On observing banks trends, one can easily understand that they are giving more importance to the small businesses lending programs. The SBA (Small Business Administration loans) value increased 48% during the first half period, when …

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Increase in Confidence on US Small Businesses: NFIB Report

September 24, 2010May 17, 2021 - by Jose Barreto

There was an increase in confidence on US Small businesses which rose to the highest level since September of 2008. It was majorly because the executives had become more optimistic about the economy, according to a report by NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business).

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Comscore: US Online Display Advertising Statistics

September 21, 2010May 26, 2017 - by Gavin Moodie

As per Comscore report, JPEG display ads in the US led the market with 42 percent of impressions. While “leaderboard”-728 x 90 in dimension ads were the most commonly viewed display ad by size. Nearly 60 percent of US display ad impressions was standard GIF/JPEG type, in April. JPEGs contributed for 42.4 percent of ad impressions. GIFs contributed for 14.1 percent. 40.3 percent of all display ads was combinedly represented by flash and rich media. …