The Advantages of a Small Company

Small businesses, or mom and pop organization are the backbone of this country. From the days when European settlers first founded our nation, entrepreneurs recognized an opportunity and strove to fill the needs of their clientele, even if it was barely in exchange for a commodity like nourishment.Today, in an scrimping filled with big box retailers like Wal-Mart, communications giants like AT&T and food and beverage conglomerates like Nestle, what is often missing is the human race touch. Back when our parents were growing up, buying groceries meant a trip to the local trade where the butcher cut your meat while you waited and a visit to the pharmacy often implicated a soda fountain treat served up by the teenager who lived down the street. Shopping was never a fast errand but also served as social time for chit chat between neighbors and friends.Bigger is not always better. The presence of huge corporations is easily forcing the small business owner to either get out or fi nd new ways to compete for business. Certainly you cannot call AT&Ts customer service line and find a relative on the other end of the line who allow for watch you receive the utmost in care and maybe even include a recipe for that casserole you admired at last weekends Sunday social. Chances are that when you purchase a bag of dog food made by Ralston-Purina, a division of Nestle Foods, there will be no representative of the company asking after your expiation and your ill grandmothers health.Modern-day society could only usefulness from a return to the standards of small business practices such as apply to be common. After all, wouldnt a personal touch go a long way towards developing necessary relationships within our communities?ReferencesFredman, Catherine, (June, 2007). administrator Secrets Small Business, Big Impact. Retrieved August 13, 2007 from United Hemispheres http//www.hemispheresmagazine.com/jun07/executivesecrets.html