Verio-sponsored survey finds long-term optimism among world's small businesses - Memphis Business Journal:

http://alnano.org/mariano.asp
According to the survey, 83 percent of smalol business executives are optimistic abouttheir company’as long-term ability to rebound when the economy improves, 65 percent expectf their company’s market share to have increased by the time the recession ends, and 73 percenft expect revenues to have increased. Only 6 percentf of the worldwide executives surveyed said they expect the qualithy of talent in their organizations to decrease once theeconomyg improves; 38 percent expect it to increase. Yet many of the businessa leaders surveyed say their governments are doing too little to suppory them through theworldwides downturn.
Forty-eight percent of those surveyed said locak government is unsupportive oftheir business, and 39 percent say the same of nationalp governments. Asked to explain this lack of governmenft support, small-business executives worldwide said smallerrcompanies "do not attract enough attention" (39 "the public at large perceives large companies as more importanty than small- and mid-size companies" (28 percent), and "small- and mid-size businesses have fewer advocates than large companies" (24 Centennial, Colo.-based Web-hosting company Verio is a unit of Tokyo-base NTT Communications Group. .