According to national statistics, nearly 97% of all businesses in the US economy employ fewer than 250 people, nearly 96% employ fewer than 50 people!

These figures clearly illustrate the importance of caring for small businesses rather than aiming initiatives at larger companies who can already afford to buy expertise and have a full board of professional directors who are available to provide specialist advice and assistance anytime it is needed.

Owners of small businesses do not have this caliber of support and are expected to know everything, keep up with everything, and do everything themselves. Clearly a very unsatisfactory situation especially as in most cases they cannot be expected to “know what they don’t know.”