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Kabbage Survey Reveals 51% of Small Business Owners Forgo Paying Themselves for Multiple Months to Control Cash Flow

New report details the personal strain cash flow concerns cause small business owners, and how they would repurpose their time if those concerns were eliminated

New data released by Kabbage, Inc., shows the impact of cash flow on the workload, personal life and take-home pay of small business owners. Polling 500 successful black entrepreneurs, the survey reveals the majority of small business owners do not pay themselves for multiple consecutive months to control cash flow in their business.

In result, 26% have gone two to six months without paying themselves, with another 25% going more than six months without a paycheck. “Having owned multiple small businesses before founding Kabbage, I am intimately familiar with cash flow challenges,” said Kabbage CEO Rob Frohwein. “Sleepless nights were my reality when waiting on customer checks and thinking through needed expenditures.

These experiences drive Kabbage’s mission to help small businesses easily manage cash flow so they can focus on the skill or craft that allowed them to start their business in the first place.”

Of the respondents surveyed, 63% said they are regularly stressed or have anxiety due to cash flow concerns; 35% often lose sleep or have difficulty sleeping; 42% sacrifice much of their social life and personal hobbies; and 32% say their family life suffers. Yet, respondents have run successful companies for an average of 10.5 years.

The Kabbage survey also found 91% of small business owners spend as many as 20 hours per week on cash flow management, from handling payroll to invoicing and purchasing inventory. If all cash-flow tasks were eliminated, respondents said they would repurpose their time to do the following:

• 51% would invest more time in sales and marketing to drive new business.
• 35% would further develop their products and services, saying they have new
ideas but no time to focus on them.
• 32% would spend more time with family, friends and community.
• 30% would focus more time on customer service.
• 22% would use the time on hiring and mentoring their employees.
• 22% would investigate new technologies and business systems to make their
company more efficient.

“I’ve tried other small business lending options in the past, but nothing has allowed my company as much flexibility and assurance to access funds as Kabbage,” said Mark Van Duyne, president of Quality Home Products, a home-furnishings wholesaler in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. “Kabbage is simply reliable.

I know I do not need to reapply to banks or other funding sources. Kabbage is there when we need it, and it has frankly helped eliminate much of the cash flow concern I used to have.”

For more information, please visit www.kabbage.com.

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