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The Bright Side

Small businesses show more signs of optimism.

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This story appears in the June 2007 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

Entrepreneurs need shades these days because the future looks so bright. The year's first quarter combined healthy hiring growth with moderate increases to produce a rosy prospect for 2007, according to the SurePayroll Scorecard hiring index for March. "It's very meaningful," says Michael Alter, president of the service company, which creates the index using data from approximately 18,000 small- customers. "The small-business is clearly doing well."

SurePayroll's March hiring index hit 10,558, up 0.45 percent from February and up 1.11 percent from the end of 2006. This suggests a strong year for small-business job growth, Alter says.

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