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 Tuesday, October 25, 2011 There's a new small business owner optimism survey out from Wells Fargo, and it's not the prettiest. Small business owner optimism for the future has fallen to its lowest point of the year, according to the survey. The survey was conducted early in the month, but future expectations have been dropping since the first quarter. "Small business owners are still navigating this challenging economy," said Doug Case, Wells Fargo small business segment manager. "In our latest survey, small business owners said that to thrive in today's economy, they need: increased sales and demand, job creation, and fewer government regulations. While we can't change the economic environment, we are working diligently to understand what our business customers need and provide them with solutions that help them move forward," he added. When asked about the most important problems they're facing, the top there responses from the survey were: complying with government regulations and taxes (22%), consumer confidence in the economy (15%), and depressed consumer spending and a lack of customer demand (12%). Just 15% of respondents said they expect the number of jobs to increase at their companies over the next year, and 13% went so far as to say that they expect a decrease. When they were asked what would lead them to hire more workers next year, 27% said when revenue or sales have increased. 20% said when the economy improves, and 17% said if they need to support growth or expansion plans.
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Majority of people still use email to communicate.  By Jacob Morgan When you think about it there are really only two things that are unique to every individual, their email and their phone number. This is important when we talk about emergent collaboration especially when the topic of moving people away from email comes up. I know that there are many people who believe in the death of email, minimizing the usage of email, or perhaps switching people away from email to another platform, but I don't think this is really going to happen. Let's assume for a moment that there was no email and you wanted to get in touch with me, your options would be to leave a comment on my blog (assuming you read it), send me a message or a reply on twitter (assuming you use the service and can find me), a note on linkedin (again assuming you can find me), or a facebook message (also assuming you can find me and can friend me). Now let's say I get 50 messages a day on various platforms, this becomes inconsistent and inconvenient both for me and for the people trying to get in touch with me. Now, if you are a colleague of mine you can use the phone, an internal collaboration tool (assuming there is a standard platform for this), or perhaps you can come over to my office. Furthermore, we start to run into problems with archiving, labeling, attachments, and a host of other things that email has become very good at. When we have someone's social media account we are never sure if we can really get in touch with them. Email on the other hand is one of the few constants we have when it comes to communication. Not only that but email is oftentimes required to access entire websites or download pieces of content. Virtually any service you sign up for any product you order requires you to enter an email address. » Continue reading this article.
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