And 93 percent of home
owners surveyed said they'd buy again.
86 % of pet
owners surveyed said their pets were already spayed or neutered.
The bank also found that 42 per cent of current home -
owners surveyed said they were looking for family help with the purchase.
According to ChangeWave, 50 % of the iPad
owners surveyed said they read newspapers with the device and 38 % said they use it to read magazines.
Only 10 % of SMB
owners surveyed said automation technology would lead them to reduce staff.
In the November survey, almost half (44 percent) of small business
owners surveyed said they expect credit will be somewhat or very easy to obtain in the next 12 months, up from 37 percent in July.
Sure, 82 percent of the more than 1,000 small - business
owners we surveyed said they are planning for growth this year.
Just 17 percent of
owners surveyed said they had added staff within the past two years.
Forty - nine percent of small - business
owners surveyed said Obamacare is a top worry for them, up from 42 percent in January.
Just over half (54 %) of non-business
owners surveyed say professionals who incorporate — such as doctors — shouldn't be eligible for the same tax advantages as other small businesses.
In fact, 94 percent of dog owners surveyed in the American Pet Products Association (APPA) 2015 - 2016 National Pet
Owners Survey said they purchased treats for their pets within the previous year, and gave their dogs an average of three treats a day.
The American Pet Products Association's 2015 - 2016 National Pet
Owners Survey said that the use of all - natural, chemical - free flea and tick products has been on a steady uptick since its 2010 survey.
34 percent of small business
owners surveyed say they would have difficulty complying with government notification requirements.
38 percent of small business
owners surveyed say they have a more negative opinion of companies that have recently experienced a breach, based on the companies» handling of the breach.
Twenty - seven percent of home
owners surveyed say they've used their smartphones to help with the remodeling of their homes.
Not exact matches
More than 60 percent of the 320 women business
owners surveyed by Forbes Insight and KeyBank's Key4Woman
said that they don't track social media to find out what they're customers are
saying about them.
A plurality, 44 %,
said their current iPhone worked fine, according to a
survey of non-upgrading
owners by Piper Jaffray.
This
survey sums up some major points from small business
owners including: 47 % of small business
owners say -LSB-...]
Many of the 1,433 small business
owners surveyed expect to live well into their retirement years, with one in three
saying they plan to retire older than 70.
U.S. Trust has put out similar
surveys for about two decades, but this is the first one to include data on high net worth business
owners and executives, it
says.
But in a new
survey of 250 business
owners by Bank of America's Merrill Lynch division, only 39 %
said they used an expert — like a management consultant, financial adviser or commercial banker — to develop a succession plan.
In a recent
survey, 59 percent of small business
owners said they preferred him.
«Many business
owners have not made important decisions [about succession planning],» Keith Banks, president of U.S. Bank
said in a video conference to discuss the
survey findings.
More than 80 percent of the 300 small business
owners surveyed in the recent 4th Annual Staples National Small Business
Survey said that they don't keep track of their business goals, and 77 percent have yet to achieve their vision for their company.
Tack on waning consumer sentiment — the latest Conference Board consumer confidence
survey puts consumer optimism at 90, down nine points from its Ocotber reading — and it's hardly surprising
owners aren't feeling super positive right now, Vitner
says.
In a recent
survey, most
owners say they expect to round out 2015 on a positive note, with strong revenue and decent prospects for holiday sales.
BMO
said results of the study were compiled from a Pollara telephone
survey of 301 Canadian business
owners between Aug. 22 and Sept. 10.
Eighty - five percent of small - business
owners say that the holiday shopping period is just as — or more important than — last year, according to a
survey by Manta, an online small - business community.
In fact, 82 percent of small - business
owners say they use social media to engage with customers, according to a recent social - media awareness
survey from online - marketing company Constant Contact.
(Too many small business
owners actually downplay that threat: Only 2 percent of the small - business
owners surveyed in the CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business
Survey said they view the threat of a cyberattack as the most critical issue they face.)
That
said, the
survey revealed that business
owners might have had a slightly tougher time getting started last year than in 2012.
On average, 27 percent of small - business
owners say they receive fewer checks today than they did three years ago, according to the
survey.
In a
survey by Paychex, 44 percent of small business
owners said the new administration has made them more likely to hire new employees; and just 12 percent
said it has made them less likely to do so.
Seventy - two percent of small - business
owners who took part in the
survey say they prefer to accept cash or checks as a form of payment over credit cards.
In the SurePayrolll Small Business Scorecard
survey, 57 percent of
owners said they want to see improved growth nationwide before they'll be confident enough to hire more.
Indeed, 57 percent of business
owners plan to hire over the coming 12 months, the
survey says.
A
survey from Capital One Bank
says that small business conditions are improving and a
survey from Citibank reveals a three - year high in
owners» view of business conditions.
Of the small - business
owners who responded to a recent Inc.com
survey about collections, 61 %
said getting paid was more difficult this year than it was last year.
Another compelling finding from the SurePayroll
survey: 21 percent of small business
owners say they plan to seek loans in 2012, with banks as their primary source of obtaining extra capital.
The
survey found 28 % of small business
owners saying it would have a negative impact on business if the Supreme Court ruled generally in favor of health care reform, which it did Thursday.
About a third of business
owners in the
survey said they would like to offer health care benefits in order to attract better employees and to improve retention.
According to the
survey, 81 percent of small business
owners say they're planning to invest in more technology in the year ahead.
The
survey found that over a third (37 percent) of small business
owners say they run over half their business in the cloud and 44 percent use more than two cloud - based tools to manage their company's daily operations.
Hu's sentiments are common among small business
owners — 60 percent of those that don't offer health insurance
say it's because it's too costly, according to a March 2015
survey by Manta, the small business network.
In the Gallup
survey, diverse - owned small businesses were more likely to respond that they have been declined for business credit — about one in five African American, Asian, and Hispanic business
owners said they faced a credit decline in the past (14 % of general market respondents
said they faced a decline).
In addition, while the majority of business
owners surveyed across all segments
said they did not feel a perception of discrimination from a financial institution impacted their chances of obtaining business credit, 22 % of African American and 11 % of LGBT business
owners reported that perceived discrimination impacted their chances of obtaining credit for their business, compared to 5 % of the general small business
owner population.
Of the total
survey respondents, 30 percent identified themselves as private equity investors or syndicators, 21 percent identified as building
owners / developers, 20 percent identified as building
owners / managers and 18 percent
said they were in leasing and / or investment sales.
In a recent
survey by Citibank, 83 % of small business
owners said they are concerned about another economic downturn.
Thirty - two percent of
owners said that «now is a good time to expand,» the highest such reading in the
survey's 45 - year history.
When Nationwide
surveyed small - business
owners back in 2015 regarding the subject of disasters, the results were disheartening — 38 percent
said that disaster recovery plans were not essential for their business, and only 18 percent of small businesses with 50 employees or less had a disaster recovery plan in place.