Constant Contact recently conducted a survey of about 1000 small business throughout the United States to ask about doing business now compared to five years ago. 59% of small business owners say it is much tougher running a business now than five years ago. Some of the reasons, include rapid change in technology and trying to keep up with it, there is more competition for almost every type of business and there is still a major uncertainy about the economy which means many are still reluctant to hire.
Hard to imagine it is only five years, but look how much just marketing has changed in the last five years. Moving much more towards online and away from traditional. For many really small businesses the change has been hard to keep up with, but is also a great opportunity to get your message out to 1000s of people for little money.
Click here to see the entire survey results, really interesting.
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