Today through Saturday has been targeted as National Small Business Week for this year. It's only fitting that we acknowledge the contributions of small businesses, their proprietors and their employees to this country's economic well-being.
Small businesses are the nation's job trainers as well.
Those independent enterprises are also income engines, generating 47 percent of all sales in the country. Innovation is another strong suit of small business with 55 percent of new technology and products stemming from the small business sector. So what is a small business, anyway. Under SBA guidelines, generally speaking a small business is an independently owned and operated business not dominant in its field of operation. Most folks consider a company with 100 or fewer employees to be a small business.