Most small firms use social networks, survey finds

A major annual survey of 1300 small businesses – the PeoplePerHour.com Small Business Survey 2012 – has revealed that the vast majority of the UK’s 4.5 million small businesses are actively using social media to recruit new staff, find work and market themselves.

91 percent of respondents used social networks for business purposes – up from the 60 percent recorded in last year’s survey. Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter were cited as by far the most used social media sites, with Facebook the most popular.

The findings backup a recent Deloitte report commissioned by Facebook that claimed that the social networking website benefits the UK economy to the tune of more than £2bn a year... read more

PeoplePerHour.com
Feb 12