Nearly Half of Canadian Small Business Owners Now Use Social Media for Their Businesses
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Total | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | |||||
Have an understanding of social media | 74 | % | 93 | % | 74 | % | 60 | % |
Do not understand social media | 26 | % | 7 | % | 26 | % | 40 | % |
Over half (56 per cent) of Millennials said they have gotten great ideas for their business from social media, and 64 per cent plan to make major changes or investments to their online presence in the coming years. In comparison, over half of business owners aged 40-64 (52 per cent) and 53 per cent of those aged 65+ plan to invest in their online presence in the coming years.
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Results cited above come from a Pollara telephone survey with 502 Canadian business owners, conducted between February 20th and March 11th, 2015. The margin of error for this survey is +/- 4.4 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
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