Bank Loans Are Harder to Get For Small Business Owners According to infoUSAPoll.com

2008-05-14 23:37:57 -

- infoUSAPoll.com(TM) (NASDAQ:IUSA) surveyed thousands of small business executives across the country on May 12th about the present conditions for securing a loan from a bank.

The poll "Are you finding it harder to get a loan from a bank?" received 995 responses with close to half of small business executives saying they are finding it harder to obtain a loan from a bank.

The results:

-- 46% (457 respondents) said yes they are finding it harder to get a loan from a bank

-- 22 % (220 respondents) said no they are not finding it harder to get a loan from a bank

-- 14% (140 respondents) said unchanged

-- 18% (178 respondents) said do not apply

The margin of error for this week's poll is plus or minus 3%. infoUSAPoll.com emailed the survey question to small business executives across the country. Each week infoUSAPoll.com conducts a poll about topics including the economy, computer usage, outlook for the future, common headaches of running a business, growing their business, political issues and much more. The weekly poll takes the pulse of small businesses executives, and gives them a chance to voice their opinion on issues and problems they collectively face.

About infoUSAPoll.com

Founded in 2008, infoUSAPoll.com, an infoUSA Company, is a polling service to identify important issues facing businesses, executives, and professionals. Each week, infoUSAPoll.com emails a survey question to poll participants taken from infoUSA's industry leading database of businesses and executives. Votes are tallied and posted online at infoUSAPoll.com.

About infoUSA

infoUSA (www.infoUSA.com), founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer databases for sales leads & mailing lists, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions. Content is the essential ingredient in every marketing program, and infoUSA has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own 12 proprietary databases under one roof. The infoUSA database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites. Nearly 4 million customers use infoUSA's products and services to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes. infoUSA headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127 and can be contacted at (402) 593-4500. To know more about Sales Leads, click www.infousa.com. To get a 72-hour free trial and 100 free sales leads, click www.salesgenie.com.

infoUSAPoll.com
Rakesh Gupta, President, 402-593-4500
ir@infousa.com