The 2012 statistic for non employer firms in the United States was close to 23 million. Non employers are those individuals that are known as self-employed and their businesses are what we called sole proprietorships. They have no paid employees and the business income is not the sole source of income for most of those individuals. To read more about business news follow the links below.
The 3 Decisions That Will Change Your Financial Life
There’s nothing worse than a rich person who’s chronically angry or unhappy. There’s really no excuse for it, yet I see this phenomenon every day. It results from an extremely unbalanced life, one with too much expectation and not enough appreciation for what’s there.
Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment. But how do you cultivate balance in life? What’s the point of achievement if your life has no balance?
For nearly four decades, I’ve had the privilege of coaching people from every walk of life, including some of the most powerful men and women on the planet. I’ve worked with presidents of the United States as well as owners of small businesses.
Across the board, I’ve found that virtually every moment people make three key decisions that dictate the quality of their lives.
If you make these decisions unconsciously, you’ll end up like majority of people who tend to be out of shape physically, exhausted emotionally and often financially stressed. But if you make these decisions consciously, you can literally change the course of your life today.
How Much Time Do Your Employees Spend Doing Real Work? The Answer May Surprise You. (Infographic)
Your employees are at work. Sure. But there’s a better than 50 percent chance that they aren’t getting real work done.
Employees say that they only spend 45 percent of their time at work actually completing their primary job duties, according to a survey of 2,000 office workers conducted by management software developer AtTask and market research firm Harris Interactive. That means more than half of their hours at the office are spent doing other things. Have a look at your latest payroll statement: that’s expensive lost productivity.
Wasted time at the office goes toward taming the ever-spawning inbox, handling administrative tasks, going to meetings and dealing with miscellaneous interruptions, according to the survey.
For more data on the culture of the current office community, including how business employees prefer to communicate and what causes most workplace conflicts, have a looksee at the infographic embedded below.
Oh, and then get back to work.
Holidays vital for small business survival
ZANESVILLE –
When Tami Neff flips the closed sign in Tami Loves’ front door to open during the holiday season, she holds with her hope for her store.
During November and December, her small retail business will make about 75 percent of its annual profit.
According to the National Retail Foundation, sales in those two months account for about as much as 30 percent of annual sales for individual retailers and 20 percent of the industry’s $3.2 trillion in annual sales.
Forecasts for this year’s holiday spending anticipate a 4.1 percent increase of $617 billion from last year when spending was up 3.1 percent over 2012. However, an analysis by international financial consulting and advisory firm Deloitte suggests the increase could be as much as 4.5 percent.
Ohio retail estimates will not be available until Monday, but Tom Poorman, president of the Zanesville-Muskingum County Chamber of Commerce, said he expects Zanesville’s numbers to be similar to the national numbers. That is good news for the 670 members of the chamber, he said, about 90 percent of which are run by small-business owners.
