Friday, May 16

National Small Business Week. Entrepreneurs are the future!

When I wrote my Ultimate Online Customer Service Guide, I mentioned that small business often has the edge over large. Being able to change quickly and stay closer to customers and employees are a couple of the main advantages. This week is National Small Business week and I'm glad that that small businesses are getting their due.
A few facts have stuck in my mind (these are from the Small Business Administration (SBA):
  • Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
  • Employ just over half of all private sector employees.
  • Pay 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
  • Have generated 64 percent of net new jobs over the past 15 years.
  • Create more than half of the nonfarm private gross domestic product (GDP).
  • Hire 40 percent of high tech workers (such as scientists, engineers, and computer programmers).
  • Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.
  • Made up 97.3 percent of all identified exporters and produced 30.2 percent of the known export value in FY 2007.
  • Produce 13 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms; these patents are twice as likely as large firm patents to be among the one percent most cited.
I'm proud to be a small business entrepreneur and it's nice that our nation chooses to salute the backbone of our economy.

Monday, May 5

Pure Social Shopping in Twitter - Click to #AmazonCart

In a huge innovation, today Amazon unveiled #AmazonCart. When you see an item posted on Twitter with the hashtag #AmazonCart, you can just click the link and the item will be placed in your Amazon Shopping cart for your purchase at a later time.