The Council of Smaller Businesses (COSE) is the small business division of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, which is one of the nation's largest metropolitan chambers of commerce.
COSE recently conducted a membership survey focused on better understanding home based businesses. The results show that many home based businesses are stable, profitable and full-time small businesses.
The results of the survey are not surprising to those of with home based businesses. Here are a couple of interesting data points from their results:
- 70% of the respondents had been working for home for over 5 years
- 41% said they started their business because they stopped enjoying working for someone else
- Only 21% said they started their business because they lost their job.
- Only 12% said being a home business hurt their ability to attract customers
It is well worth reading for anyone interested in home based businesses. I saw this on the Selling to Small Business blog and a copy of the report is on Slideshare.
Interesting! Thanks for the survey. I had a feeling high percentage of people works home-based.
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Posted by: ajf8 | September 30, 2010 at 01:27 AM
Thank you for providing the results of the survey..
Posted by: work at home business | September 10, 2010 at 04:50 AM
Oh very high ratio for people doing business from home...
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