There has been a great deal of information in all types of media about how many people are upset and even angry with certain segments of our society and with government, one recent example being the Tea Party movement. Now comes the results of a survey from the Pew Research Center that supports this information. Can you guess who is at the bottom of the list with the greatest negative perception? Take your best guess first and then check out Why America admires small business to see if any of your guesses were correct and then see who came out on top, small businesses. In fact, a whopping seventy-one percent of Americans feel that small businesses positively impact our country.
The article then gives some interesting and surprising facts from the National Federation of Independent Business' Research Foundation on some of the reasons small business owners are so popular in their communities. One being that ninety-one percent of small business owners volunteer, or in some way contribute monetarily to their communities. If you read the rest of the article you'll really understand why they come out on top. Seems like the people who came out on the bottoms of the list could definitely learn some lessons from the example set by small businesses.
These kind of articles are very interesting and surprising to the incoming small business right now..
Posted by: MS.Small Businesses | May 22, 2010 at 04:41 AM