Results: Home Based Businesses
Published on 03/23/2019
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1.
1.
Do you now have or have you ever had your own home based business? Yes, I do now
12%
268 votes
Yes, but not anymore
18%
411 votes
No
71%
1648 votes
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2.
What type of business did you have? Personal services (dog walking, house sitting, shopping, home care, cleaning services)
6%
150 votes
Representative (Avon, Mary Kay, Tupperware, etc.)
5%
112 votes
Business services (answering phones, bookkeeping, etc.)
4%
84 votes
Online sales (ebay, amazon, personal website, etc.)
6%
134 votes
Child care
2%
38 votes
Other (please specify)
8%
180 votes
Not Applicable
70%
1629 votes
3.
3.
If you do/did have your own home based business, what was the hardest part for you? Finding new customers
11%
263 votes
Staying or getting organized
4%
92 votes
Keeping records
4%
97 votes
Finding help (when needed)
4%
85 votes
The red tape (business licensing, insurance, etc.)
4%
100 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
38 votes
Not Applicable
71%
1641 votes
Not enough profit/income; expenses too high to make profit
11%
253 votes
4.
4.
If you used to have a home based business but no longer do, would you ever want to start another one? Yes
9%
215 votes
No
11%
255 votes
Undecided
8%
177 votes
Not Applicable
72%
1680 votes
5.
5.
More and more home based businesses are opened every year, do you think that home based businesses are the way of the future as more and more people are frustrated with barely getting by working for someone else? Yes
39%
901 votes
No
15%
355 votes
Undecided
46%
1071 votes
COMMENTS