This most recent survey draws to a close the first year of testing and remarkably, has returned to most positive results yet.
The biggest surprise comes from the ability-to-finance-a-business-purchase question (4) in which respondents reported that it would be 4.6% easier to purchase a business than it was two months ago. This rise may not sound like much, but considering that as little as six months ago the finance question was returning steadily falling results, this rebound is extremely positive.
In the business related questions, the question pertaining to business pricing and availability (5) returned a 4.7% increase on the last survey, and the likelihood-of-buying-a-business question (1) jumped 4.8%. The smallest increase came from the positivity-of-buying-a-business-today question (2), returning only a 2.1% increase. That said, question (2) is still returning the highest results of all other fields
The only question to continue returning declining results is the question relating to buyer positivity towards the business and economic climate over the next six months (3). This decline is interesting considering that all other fields are on the rise. It remains to be seen whether the expectation will follow the trend, or the trend, the expectation.
It should be noted that despite all of these increases, the results, though improving, are still only returning average, or slightly above average results. The exciting thing is that if these results continue on their current trend we could be seeing some very serious improvements within the next few months. The reason we can predict this is that in all the results returned, we are starting to see some very clear trends, and the most part, all of those trends are on the up.
The next survey will see the first results returned that would allow us to compare the current market directly with the results a year ago. Once again, we can’t do this without your help so if you’ve got a minute, we’d love to hear from you.
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(just five quick questions)