An analysis showed that as of April 2024 only ** percent of small business home pages in the United States provided the users with contact information for the company they represented. Most commonly featured elements were photographs and call-to-action buttons, included on ** percent and ** percent of SME home pages, respectively.

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Almost *** Finnish small and medium-sized businesses had a website in 2022. The country leads the OECD ranking of share of SMEs with a web page. In contrast, less than **** of small enterprises in Turkey had a website or home page as of 2022, one of the lowest percentages among the ** nations included in this chart. Other countries with a relatively low percentage of small businesses with a web presence include Brazil, Israel, and Portugal.

Nine in ten small business owners in the United States anticipated topping up their marketing and sales investments, according to a survey conducted in February 2022. Besides that primary goal, small firms also planned to increase their efforts in social and search engine marketing, with ** percent of respondents, while another ** percent intended to invest in their online presence, e-commerce sales channel, and website.

The mission of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) is to implement and execute the functions and duties of Section 8 and 15 of the Small Business Act (SBAct). Section 15 states that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for property and services for the Government are to be placed with small business concerns. The implementation and execution of Section 8 and 15 of the SBAct are demonstrated and measured by the Department’s ability to work towards exceeding statutory prime, sub and socio-economic small business goals, providing education on the management & operations business model, continuous improvement of best practices such as the Mentor-Protégé Program, providing information on financial assistance opportunities, providing training to small businesses, participating and conducting outreach events for small businesses, ensuring compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulations and other applicable small business laws and regulations, issuing new small business policies and updating existing small business policies at the Department.

This data set is of certified small businesses (SBF), where the ownership and control is race and gender neutral. This dataset includes businesses that are small as defined by the Office of Supplier Diversity based on a three-year average of either or both Full Time Equivalent employees (FTEs) and/or a three-year average of gross revenue. This data set is updated daily and is searchable and exportable at this link: https://osd.delaware.gov/Home/OSD. The eligibility and size for an SBF certified business is viewable at: https://business.delaware.gov/osd where you can review the application and eligibility requirements. The Office of Supplier Diversity's mission is to assist the entire supplier diversity community of minority, women, veteran, service disabled veteran, and individuals with disabilities owned businesses as well as small businesses of a unique size in competing for the provision of commodities, services, and construction to State departments, agencies, authorities, school districts, higher educat

The Small Business Administration maintains the Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS) database. As a small business registers in the System for Award Management, there is an opportunity to fill out the small business profile. The information provided populates DSBS. DSBS is another tool contracting officers use to identify potential small business contractors for upcoming contracting opportunities. Small businesses can also use DSBS to identify other small businesses for teaming and joint venturing.

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Data Fields Include: -Business Owner/Contact -Employee Size -Email -Ethnic Group of Contact Person -Executives by Title -Fax Number -Gender of Contact Person -Headquarters/Branches -Home Based Businesses -Minority Owner Businesses -NAICS code -Professional Specialties -Sales Volume -SIC code -Small Business Owners -Square Footage -Telephone Numbers -UCC Indicator -Website Address -Year Established

Adoption of advanced technologies (business intelligence, design, security, logistic, processing, internet of things, clean, other) and wesbites by small and medium enterprises in 2020 by region, CMA level, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), demographics, age of business, employment size, rate of growth, etc.

The percentage of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a website in the European Union (EU-27) has been slowly but steadily increasing in the past decade. From 2012 to 2023, the share of small businesses (with 10 to 49 employees) that had launched a website increased almost 10 percentage points. Overall, medium-sized companies are more likely than small ones to have a website.

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This statistic shows the distribution of small and medium-sized businesses in the United States that offer a mobile-optimized version of their website as of September 2015. During the survey, RBC Capital Markets found that 33 percent of responding SMBs had a mobile-optimized website in September 2015 as compared to 26 percent the year earlier.

United States SB: ME: Outlook: FN: Develop Online Sales/Websites data was reported at 10.100 % in 11 Apr 2022. This records a decrease from the previous number of 10.300 % for 04 Apr 2022. United States SB: ME: Outlook: FN: Develop Online Sales/Websites data is updated weekly, averaging 10.000 % from Nov 2021 (Median) to 11 Apr 2022, with 16 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 13.400 % in 29 Nov 2021 and a record low of 7.600 % in 21 Feb 2022. United States SB: ME: Outlook: FN: Develop Online Sales/Websites data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.S049: Small Business Pulse Survey: by State: Northeast Region: Weekly, Beg Monday (Discontinued).

United States SB: VT: Outlook: FN: Develop Online Sales/Websites data was reported at 9.400 % in 11 Apr 2022. This records a decrease from the previous number of 22.400 % for 21 Mar 2022. United States SB: VT: Outlook: FN: Develop Online Sales/Websites data is updated weekly, averaging 10.600 % from Nov 2021 (Median) to 11 Apr 2022, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 22.400 % in 21 Mar 2022 and a record low of 7.700 % in 10 Jan 2022. United States SB: VT: Outlook: FN: Develop Online Sales/Websites data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.S049: Small Business Pulse Survey: by State: Northeast Region: Weekly, Beg Monday (Discontinued).

Survey of 2,000 businesses on how much they spend on their website and their website costs

Abstract

The Future of Business Survey is a new source of information on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Launched in February 2016, the monthly survey - a partnership between Facebook, OECD, and The World Bank - provides a timely pulse on the economic environment in which businesses operate and who those businesses are to help inform decision-making at all levels and to deliver insights that can help businesses grow. The Future of Business Survey provides a perspective from newer and long-standing digitalized businesses and provides a unique window into a new mobilized economy.

Policymakers, researchers and businesses share a common interest in the environment in which SMEs operate, as well their outlook on the future, not least because young and innovative SMEs in particular are often an important source of considerable economic and employment growth. Better insights and timely information about SMEs improve our understanding of economic trends, and can provide new insights that can further stimulate and help these businesses grow.

To help provide these insights, Facebook, OECD and The World Bank have collaborated to develop a monthly survey that attempts to improve our understanding of SMEs in a timely and forward-looking manner. The three organizations share a desire to create new ways to hear from businesses and help them succeed in the emerging digitally-connected economy. The shared goal is to help policymakers, researchers, and businesses better understand business sentiment, and to leverage a digital platform to provide a unique source of information to complement existing indicators.

With more businesses leveraging online tools each day, the survey provides a lens into a new mobilized, digital economy and, in particular, insights on the actors: a relatively unmeasured community worthy of deeper consideration and considerable policy interest.

Geographic coverage

When the survey was initially launched in February 2016, it included 22 countries. When the survey was initially launched in February 2016, it included 22 countries. The Future of Business Survey is now conducted in over 90 countries in every region of the world.

Analysis unit

The study describes small and medium-sized enterprises.

Universe

The target population consists of SMEs that have an active Facebook business Page and include both newer and longer-standing businesses, spanning across a variety of sectors. With more businesses leveraging online tools each day, the survey provides a lens into a new mobilized, digital economy and, in particular, insights on the actors: a relatively unmeasured community worthy of deeper consideration and considerable policy interest.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Twice a year in over 97 countries, the Facebook Survey Team sends the Future of Business to admins and owners of Facebook-designated small business pages. When we share data from this survey, we anonymize responses to all survey questions and only share country-level data publicly. To achieve better representation of the broader small business population, we also weight our results based on known characteristics of the Facebook Page admin population.

A random sample of firms, representing the target population in each country, is selected to respond to the Future of Business Survey each month.

Mode of data collection

Internet [int]

Research instrument

The survey includes questions about perceptions of current and future economic activity, challenges, business characteristics and strategy. Custom modules include questions related to regulation, access to finance, digital payments, and digital skills. The full questionnaire is available for download.

The questionnaire was pretested by the target audience, as well as experts from the area of research interest. Additionally, steps were taken to translate the survey in order to reduce sensitivities to cultural response bias: - Respondents were given the option to respond to the survey in any of fifteen languages native to the countries in which it was conducted. - Translations were done only by native speakers, with two rounds of additional online checks in the context of the survey environment. - Translators were provided with context material for this survey (e.g., the Facebook for Business website) in order to understand the context of the survey. They were also instructed to take the English survey at least two times before starting with the translations. - Translations were discussed in a group in order to ensure a common understanding of questions and items. - The tone (formal vs. informal) of the survey was based on cultural conventions, e.g., Facebook usually uses an informal tone, while in cultures such as the Japanese this is very uncommon and thus a formal tone was used there.

Response rate

Response rates to online surveys vary widely depending on a number of factors including survey length, region, strength of the relationship with invitees, incentive mechanisms, invite copy, interest of respondents in the topic and survey design.

Note: Response rates are calculated as the number of respondents who completed the survey divided by the total number of SMEs invited.

Sampling error estimates

Any survey data is prone to several forms of error and biases that need to be considered to understand how closely the results reflect the intended population. In particular, the following components of the total survey error are noteworthy:

Sampling error is a natural characteristic of every survey based on samples and reflects the uncertainty in any survey result that is attributable to the fact that not the whole population is surveyed.

Other factors beyond sampling error that contribute to such potential differences are frame or coverage error (sampling frame of page owners does not include all relevant businesses but also may include individuals that don't represent businesses), and nonresponse error.

Note that the sample is meant to reflect the population of businesses on Facebook, not the population of small businesses in general. This group of digitized SMEs is itself a community worthy of deeper consideration and of considerable policy interest. However, care should be taken when extrapolating to the population of SMEs in general. Moreover, future work should evaluate the external validity of the sample. Particularly, respondents should be compared to the broader population of SMEs on Facebook, and the economy as a whole.

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Mayor Michelle Wu is committed to creating equal opportunities for businesses of all kinds in Boston. Through the business certification process, the City identifies businesses that are owned by women, minorities, veterans as well as those that are small or local. Once a business is certified with our office, they are included in any vendor outreach efforts for City contracting opportunities and are also connected to resources offered inside and outside of the City.

In order to provide access to more minority-owned and woman-owned businesses, small and small local businesses, and veteran and service disabled veteran-owned small businesses, the City of Boston Directory of certified businesses is now available on Analyze Boston.

If you think you might be eligible for certification, visit our website and apply today

If you have questions about obtaining certification, please contact stacey.williams@boston.gov

What does each certification category mean?

Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) - means a business organization which is beneficially owned or substantially invested in by one or more minority group members as follows:

• The business must be at least 51% beneficially owned by minority group members.
• The minority owners must demonstrate that they have control over management.

• The firm has not been solely established for the purpose of taking advantage of a special program which has been developed to assist minority-owned businesses.

  Woman Business Enterprise (WBE) - means a business organization which is beneficially owned or substantially invested in by one or more women meeting the following criteria:

• The business must be at least 51% beneficially owned by a woman.

• The woman owner must demonstrate that she has control over management.

• The firm has not been solely established for the purpose of taking advantage of a special program which has been developed to assist woman-owned businesses.

Small Business Enterprise (SBE) - means a business with gross receipts, that when averaged over a three-year period do not exceed gross income limitations for that particular industry as defined by the Small Local Business Enterprise Office.

Small Local Business Enterprise (SLBE) - means a business which is a Small Business Enterprise, as defined above, and whose principal office is physically located in the City of Boston, as defined by the SLBE certification regulations.

A Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) and a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) is a business that has already been verified as such by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.

Can a business hold multiple certifications at the same time?

Yes, businesses may qualify for more than one certification.

How long are these certifications valid for?

Businesses are required to renew their certification _ every three years_.

The intention is to collect data for the calendar year 2009 (or the nearest year for which each business keeps its accounts. The survey is considered a one-off survey, although for accurate NAs, such a survey should be conducted at least every five years to enable regular updating of the ratios, etc., needed to adjust the ongoing indicator data (mainly VAGST) to NA concepts. The questionnaire will be drafted by FSD, largely following the previous BAS, updated to current accounting terminology where necessary. The questionnaire will be pilot tested, using some accountants who are likely to complete a number of the forms on behalf of their business clients, and a small sample of businesses. Consultations will also include Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour, Central Bank of Samoa (CBS), Samoa Tourism Authority, Chamber of Commerce, and other business associations (hotels, retail, etc.).

The questionnaire will collect a number of items of information about the business ownership, locations at which it operates and each establishment for which detailed data can be provided (in the case of complex businesses), contact information, and other general information needed to clearly identify each unique business. The main body of the questionnaire will collect data on income and expenses, to enable value added to be derived accurately. The questionnaire will also collect data on capital formation, and will contain supplementary pages for relevant industries to collect volume of production data for selected commodities and to collect information to enable an estimate of value added generated by key tourism activities.

The principal user of the data will be FSD which will incorporate the survey data into benchmarks for the NA, mainly on the current published production measure of GDP. The information on capital formation and other relevant data will also be incorporated into the experimental estimates of expenditure on GDP. The supplementary data on volumes of production will be used by FSD to redevelop the industrial production index which has recently been transferred under the SBS from the CBS. The general information about the business ownership, etc., will be used to update the Business Register.

Outputs will be produced in a number of formats, including a printed report containing descriptive information of the survey design, data tables, and analysis of the results. The report will also be made available on the SBS website in “.pdf” format, and the tables will be available on the SBS website in excel tables. Data by region may also be produced, although at a higher level of aggregation than the national data. All data will be fully confidentialised, to protect the anonymity of all respondents. Consideration may also be made to provide, for selected analytical users, confidentialised unit record files (CURFs).

A high level of accuracy is needed because the principal purpose of the survey is to develop revised benchmarks for the NA. The initial plan was that the survey will be conducted as a stratified sample survey, with full enumeration of large establishments and a sample of the remainder.

v01: This is the first version of the documentation. Basic raw data, obtained from data entry.

The scope of the 2009 BAS is all employing businesses in the private sector other than those involved in agricultural activities.

Included are:
· Non-governmental organizations (NGOs, not-for profit organizations, etc.);
· Government Public Bodies

Excluded are:
· Non-employing units (e.g., market sellers);
· Government ministries, constitutional offices and those public bodies involved in public administration and included in the Central Government Budget Sector;
· Agricultural units (unless large scale/commercial - if the Agriculture census only covers household activities);
· “Non-resident” bodies such as international agencies, diplomatic missions (e.g., high commissions and embassies, UNDP, FAO, WHO);

The survey coverage is of all businesses in scope as defined above. Statistical units relevant to the survey are the enterprise and the establishment. The enterprise is an institutional unit and generally corresponds to legal entities such as a company, cooperative, partnership or sole proprietorship. The establishment is an institutional unit or part of an institutional unit, which engages in one, or predominantly one, type of economic activity. Sufficient data must be available to derive or meaningfully estimate value added in order to recognize an establishment. The main statistical unit from which data will be collected in the survey is the establishment. For most businesses there will be a one-to-one relationship between the enterprise and the establishment, i.e., simple enterprises will comprise only one establishment. The purpose of collecting data from establishments (rather than from enterprises) is to enable the most accurate industry estimates of value added possible.

• Collection start: 2009
• Collection end: 2009

This CD-ROM product is an authoritative reference source of 15 key financial ratios by industry groupings compiled from the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 2007). It is based on up-to-date, reliable and comprehensive data on Canadian businesses, derived from Statistics Canada databases of financial statements for three reference years. The CD-ROM enables users to compare their enterprise's performance to that of their industry and to address issues such as profitability, efficiency and business risk. Financial Performance Indicators can also be used for inter-industry comparisons. Volume 1 covers large enterprises in both the financial and non-financial sectors, at the national level, with annual operating revenue of $25 million or more. Volume 2 covers medium-sized enterprises in the non-financial sector, at the national level, with annual operating revenue of $5 million to less than $25 million. Volume 3 covers small enterprises in the non-financial sector, at the national, provincial, territorial, Atlantic region and Prairie region levels, with annual operating revenue of $30,000 to less than $5 million. Note: FPICB has been discontinued as of 2/23/2015. Statistics Canada continues to provide information on Canadian businesses through alternative data sources. Information on specific financial ratios will continue to be available through the annual Financial and Taxation Statistics for Enterprises program: CANSIM table 180-0003 ; the Quarterly Survey of Financial Statements: CANSIM tables 187-0001 and 187-0002 ; and the Small Business Profiles, which present financial data for small businesses in Canada, available on Industry Canada's website: Financial Performance Data.

This statistic shows website ownership of small and medium-sized businesses in the United States as of September 2015. During the survey, RBC Capital Markets found that 64 percent of responding SMBs had a website in September 2015, as compared to 60 percent the year earlier.