04/ 02/ 2008
NFIB's Research Foundation surveyed small business owners about their use of information technology for the latest Small Business Poll. Here are some of the poll's key findings:
87 percent are connected to the Internet by a high-speed connection, and 90 percent have one or more work e-mail addresses.
91 percent of small business owners have one or more computers that they use for business purposes.
52 percent of the small employer population has a business Web site, and 16 percent of those sites are capable of conducting e-commerce.
The most common problems small employers encounter with their IT equipment are: filtering spam from e-mail (44 percent), hardware crashes (40 percent), back-up and/or data loss (37 percent) and updating computer security (35 percent).
To view the entire poll, visit www.411sbfacts.com
