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Black Business Index - Creative Investment Research (www.creativeinvest.com)
Short Survey on Black Small Business Conditions
Short survey on the state of business.
1.
How would you rate the overall health of your business
Very Good
Good
Average
Poor
2.
How would you rate the overall health of the US economy?
Very good
Somewhat good
About average
Somewhat poor
Very poor
3.
How would you rate the overall health of the economy in your local area?
Very good
Somewhat good
About average
Somewhat poor
Very poor
4.
For the upcoming year, do you plan to increase investment in your business, invest about as much as you did last year, or reduce investment?
Increase investment
Invest about the same
Reduce investment
5.
How comfortable are you with your company's current cash flow situation?
Very comfortable
Somewhat comfortable
Not very comfortable
Not confortable at all
6.
Over the past year, would you say you have increased staff, retained the same size staff or reduced staff?
Increased staff
Retained the same size staff
Reduced staff
7.
In the next year, do you anticipate increasing staff, keeping the same size staff or reducing staff?
Increasing staff
Retaining the same staff
Reducing staff
8.
Looking forward one year, do you expect revenues to increase, decrease or stay the same?
Increase
Stay the same
Decrease
9.
Please let us know how many employees you have and what industry you are in.
Number of employees
Industry
Location of your business (City, State)
Ethnic group of owners (51% or more of common stock, ownership)
10.
Do you have any other comments or questions? Thank you!