What do small-business owners want most for the holidays?
From bigger lines of credit and lower taxes to affordable health-care plans and equipment upgrades, many say they want resources to help their companies grow.
At the very top of the wish-list for Andrew Fox, owner of New York-based event-listing and planning firm Track Entertainment Inc.: restoration of his $10 million line of credit. He says his bank cut it by a whopping 90% in 2008, forcing him to sell off several small businesses he'd acquired just a few years earlier. And Mr. Fox would like for his company's credit-card provider to reinstate the unlimited monthly spending privilege he used to have; it was reduced to a $20,000 cap, also in 2008.
Gabriel Shaoolian wants about 20 new employees for his New York Web-design and marketing firm, Blue Fountain Media Corp., including information architects, business-development consultants, website developers and online marketing strategists. He has the money and the business to hire the people—but he needs a little reindeer power to find the right talent. "We're in an industry that's relatively young, so it's hard to find someone who's good at it," he says. "We get a lot of résumés, but they lack the experience we're looking for." Go to WallStreetJournal.com to read more business owners' holiday wish lists
Gabriel Shaoolian wants about 20 new employees for his New York Web-design and marketing firm, Blue Fountain Media Corp., including information architects, business-development consultants, website developers and online marketing strategists. He has the money and the business to hire the people—but he needs a little reindeer power to find the right talent. "We're in an industry that's relatively young, so it's hard to find someone who's good at it," he says. "We get a lot of résumés, but they lack the experience we're looking for."
Go to WallStreetJournal.com to read more business owners' holiday wish lists
