Small Business Owners – Unite!
July 13, 2009 by Jean Murray
Filed under Business
There is strength in numbers, but only if those numbers join together. The U.S. has about 26 million small business owners (defined as having under 500 employees) but there is very little in common between these businesses. Of the 26 million, most (about 20 million) were solo businesses, with no employees. That is a lot of one-person businesses!
The average income for these solo small businesses is under $10,000 in annual receipts. Not a wealthy group, by any means. Small businesses struggle in the best of times, and these certainly aren’t great times for business. And it is difficult for small …read more




