I recently ran across an interesting post from Anita Campbell at Small Business Trends. She pointed out some interesting surveys about small business optimism. The surveys had conflicting findings. I left her the below comment:
Hi Anita,
Thanks for the heads-up on small business surveys. I'm interested in finding numbers on this segment (of which I am a member) and I'll take a closer look at these.
One of the difficulties I sometimes have in pulling out useful information is that governmental definitions of "small business" are REALLY far from my reality. A manufacturing firm can have 1000 people and a large yearly revenue and still classify as a small business. That's far different than my perspective of a micro-business, which I'd define as 5 employees and under. (I know the definition varies.) It must be hard to get good numbers on this fluid segment...
Although I work with large companies and agencies, I'm a micro business -- an independent professional -- and plan to stay that way. If you're an independent professional or have less than 5 employees, do you want to grow or stay just the size you are? (Referring to your business and not the numbers on your bathroom scales of course!)
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