| What are the top words every small business owner | | | | Survival Rates |
| or self-employed person wants to hear when talking | | | | Small Business Openings & Closings in 2008: |
| about operations? Valuable and Free. With all that has | | | | - There were 627,200 new businesses, 595,600 |
| gone on recently in the economy and governmental | | | | business closures and 43,546 bankruptcies. |
| legislation, it would be hard not to want and find | | | | - Seven out of 10 new employer firms survive at least |
| valuable resources for little, or in our case, no cost. | | | | two years, and about half survive five years. |
| There has been a mass exodus away from traditional | | | | - Findings do not differ greatly across industry sectors. |
| "buy-open-insert-install" software from the years of | | | | *U.S. Small Business Administration Office of |
| yore. Now it's all online. Buy it and download it. Many | | | | Advocacy, September 2009 |
| software applications out there are free and seriously | | | | So this means there were 11946 more "failures" in |
| cheap. But they ask you to upgrade or offer (and by | | | | 2008 than there were new startups. Any expense a |
| this I mean pop it up in your face). | | | | small business owner can do without could be |
| Let's face the facts: | | | | detrimental to its endurance. Behold, here's a good |
| Impact on the Economy | | | | start. How the small business does its books. |
| The estimated 29.6 million small businesses in the | | | | Efficiency and saved time there could really turn it |
| United States: | | | | around. A good portion of small business owners, |
| - Employ just over half of the country's private sector | | | | start-ups, and the self-employed do all their own |
| workforce | | | | finances. |
| - Hire 40 percent of high tech workers, such as | | | | Well, free bookkeeping software is now available to |
| scientists, engineers and computer workers | | | | everyone. It'll help record sales, purchases, income, and |
| - Include 52 percent home-based businesses and two | | | | payments by an individuals and businesses. Spend |
| percent franchises | | | | more time growing your business and not recording |
| - Represent 97.3 percent of all the exporters of goods | | | | what it's doing fiscally. This Outright's software will |
| - Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms | | | | allow you to do just that. It'll help so come time to file |
| - Generate a majority of the innovations that come | | | | your taxes, you won't be going crazy. |
| from United States companies | | | | |