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SME-owner survey
1.
Business Name
2.
Type of Business
3.
Business Sector
4.
Location (City or Town)
5.
Province
6.
Email address
7.
Cellphone number
8.
Phone number
9.
Does your business have a website? If yes please specify.
Yes
No
Website address
10.
Do you promote your business on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn? If yes please add your social media @handle.
Yes
No
handle
11.
Number of years business has been operating
1 year
1 yr to fewer than 2 yrs
2 yrs to fewer than 5 yrs
5 yrs to fewer than 10 yrs
10 yrs
12.
Have you owned and operated other businesses?
Yes
No
13.
Size of business - By turnover
< R5m
R5m – 10m
R10m – R20m
R20m
14.
Number of full-time employees
15.
Number of part time employees
16.
Did the number of total employees increase, decrease or stay the same over the past year
Increase
Decrease
Stayed the same
17.
Is your business ‘family owned’
Yes
No
18.
Is it formalised?
Yes
No
19.
If you are a formal business, where do you encounter most red tape?
SARS
CIPC
DTI
Municipality
Other (please specify)
20.
Is at least 30% of your business black owned? If so, do you have a BBBEE level certificate?
Yes
No
21.
Does your cash flow suffer from late payments of invoices?
Yes
No
22.
Are your late paying clients from...
Government
Big Business
23.
What is the average time it takes you to receive funds after you've invoiced?
24.
Are you ever forced to write-off bad debt from Government or Big Business?
Yes
No
25.
Is your business part of a business chamber? If yes please specify
Yes
No
Business chamber name
26.
Is the Business Organisation to which you belong helpful?
How is it most useful to you or your Business?
What would you like to see more from your organisation?
27.
I give the SBI permission to register my business on their database to receive relevant information, take part in surveys and receive invitations to events and webinars.
Yes
No