Empower Your Business Survey

1.Contact email (Optional):
2.Is your business currently operating?(Required.)
3.In what year was your business established? (YYYY)(Required.)
4.How many years have you been in operation?(Required.)
5.Is your business for-profit or not-for-profit?(Required.)
6.What is your primary business? (Please describe)(Required.)
7.Does your business qualify as a Federal Minority or Women Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) or Miami-Dade County Disadvantaged Enterprise (DBE)?(Required.)
8.Where is your business headquarters?(Required.)
9.Where do you operate your business from?(Required.)
10.Why did the owner(s) start or purchase this business? (Select all that apply)(Required.)
11.Select all that apply:(Required.)
12.How many full-time (30 hours or more) employees did you have in December 2023?(Required.)
13.How many part-time employees (less than 30 hours per week, or for less than the full year), including contractors, did you use in 2023?(Required.)
14.What share of your employees identify as minorities (non-white), women, or LGBTQ+?(Required.)
15.What percentage of your employees are residents of Miami Beach?(Required.)
16.What percentage of your sales come from outside Miami-Dade County?(Required.)
17.What traits help make your business more competitive than your competitors? (Select all that apply)(Required.)
18.Did your business earn a profit in 2022?(Required.)
19.Did your business earn a profit in 2023?(Required.)
20.What percentage did your sales grow from 2022 to 2023?(Required.)
21.What was your gross sales or gross revenues in 2023?(Required.)
22.Has your business experienced any of the following operational challenges during the past 12 months? (Select all that apply)(Required.)
23.Has your business experienced any of the following financial challenges during the past 12 months? (Select all that apply)(Required.)
24.Did you apply to obtain funding for your business in the last 5 years?(Required.)
25.What purpose(s) was/is your business seeking financing? (Select all that apply)(Required.)
26.How much total financing was/is your business seeking in the 5 years?(Required.)
27.How would you rate Miami Beach as a place to start or grow a business?(Required.)
Not a good place to grow or start a business
A somewhat good place to grow or start a business
A very good place to grow or start a business
An excellent place to grow or start a business
28.Do you have a detailed strategic plan for your business?(Required.)
29.What would you say is the is the value of your business today? ($)(Required.)
30.What are your business goals? (Select all that apply)(Required.)
31.How optimistic are you about the future of your business?(Required.)
Not optimistic
Mildly optimistic
Optimistic
Very optimistic
32.In the next 5 years, do you plan to keep your business in Miami Beach?(Required.)
33.The City is evaluating the services most needed by small businesses, and how they can be best delivered. What support services would be most valuable to your business? Please choose one from the dropdown below.(Required.)
34.Would you be willing to pay for the services, in the previous question, if the services provided clear value for your business?(Required.)
35.Which type of training do you prefer?(Required.)
36.What Type of Program(s) Interests You Most, and Works for Your Business and Personal Situation?(Required.)
Not Interested
Somewhat Interested
Very Interested
Business Consulting Services: Several universities and institutions provide intensive business consulting services to small businesses to help businesses grow and secure financing from a variety of sources including government, grants, banks, and other lenders. Businesses work with a business consulting team, usually for3-5 weeks, at time convenient for the business.
Mentoring and/or Coaching Services: Regularly scheduled 1:1 advice with experienced business experts/counselors to explore and how to navigate business problem solving, and/ or how to strategically plan to grow your business, access funding/capital, and network with service providers, customers, or investors
Business Boot Camp: Intensive multi-day learning experiences where experts, in a very specific business, are leveraged to provide instructional sessions with entrepreneurs and business owners to focus on specific subject matters, such as applying new technology and strategic planning. Networking and pitch sessions, where business practice presenting business ideas to investors, is typically included with financial awards.
Business Plan Competition: Business plan competitions are a popular way to compete for cash investments in small businesses. Owners present their business plan to a panel of judges. Awards vary in Miami—from $10,000 to $250,000.
Co-Working Space: Co-working spaces provide affordable, flexible space for entrepreneurs and small teams, when traditional office space is not available, or cost prohibited. Co-Working spaces provide a range of on-site amenities, including networking events, shared conference rooms, administrative support, business development training, and occasional pitch competitions.
Business Incubator: Incubators provide low-cost long-term leases for qualifying businesses, mentoring, networking, and/or consulting services to grow your business. The goal of most incubators is to provide low-cost space and capacity building resources to support new businesses in early stages development.
Business Accelerator: Accelerators provide intensive 6–12-week capacity building services for established businesses ready to move to the next level of growth. Services include mentoring from professional consultants/business experts and investors to perfect your business model, and how to strategically plan to scale up business. Businesses in an accelerator meet 3-7 times per week, and collaborate with small businesses, share and explore best practices, network and engage in a Co-Working space. The program concludes with opportunities to present business ideas to potential investors and funders. Some accelerator programs require a sharing of a small percentage of ownership (4%-6%) in the business.
37.Have you participated in any of the programs listed in question 33 before? (Select all that apply)(Required.)
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