DECI 2026 Business Survey

Own a business downtown? Please fill out this survey! Your answers help DECI to make decisions about the direction of our work and help us advocate better advocate for downtown with our partners, investors, and local governments.

All questions (other than contact info) are optional. All answers are confidential. Public facing data will be summarized and anonymized to show trends and to protect individual data.

Business Name

Primary Contact First Name

Primary Contact Last Name

Phone

Address

Questions about your business

All questions are optional and confidential

Do you rent or own your property downtown?

Rent

Own

Other

Why did you decide to locate your business downtown?

Business birthday (date you opened)

How would you describe your revenue trends throughout the years your business has been open? Have they been steadily increasing? Have they started decreasing? When did they start decreasing? Have they been unreliable, up and down from year to year?

If you had the power to change one thing in Downtown Eau Claire, what would it be?

Owner Demographics

All questions are optional and confidential

Owner Gender

Male

Female

Prefer not to answer

Something else

Which of the following apply to you? (Select all that apply)

Woman-owned business

Person of color-owned

Veteran-owned

LGBTQIA+ owned

How would the owner describe their personal financial condition?

Living paycheck to paycheck

Getting by but often struggling to make ends meet

Unpredictable, sometimes struggling, sometimes living more comfortably

Stable and living comfortably

Living very comfortably, never worrying about personal finances, saving for retirement, etc.

Would self-describe as "wealthy"

Does the owner have to work another job, other than their business, in order to make ends meet personally?

Yes

Questions about your relationship with DECI

All questions are optional and confidential

Become a member here!

If you don't want to be a member of DECI, what are some reasons why? (Select all that apply)

Do you participate in any other professional membership organizations, like DECI? (Select all that apply)

Thinking about Fall Festival specifically, how did this event impact your business, whether you participated or not? (Select all that apply)

How do other DECI events bring value to your business?

How can DECI better serve you and your business?

Anything else you'd like us to know?

DECI 2026 Business Survey

All questions (other than contact info) are optional. All answers are confidential. Public facing data will be summarized and anonymized to show trends and to protect individual data.

Primary Contact First Name

Primary Contact Last Name

Questions about your business

All questions are optional and confidential

Do you rent or own your property downtown?

Rent

Own

Other

Why did you decide to locate your business downtown?

Business birthday (date you opened)

If you had the power to change one thing in Downtown Eau Claire, what would it be?

Owner Demographics

All questions are optional and confidential

Owner Gender

Male

Female

Prefer not to answer

Something else

Which of the following apply to you? (Select all that apply)

Woman-owned business

Person of color-owned

Veteran-owned

LGBTQIA+ owned

How would the owner describe their personal financial condition?

Living paycheck to paycheck

Getting by but often struggling to make ends meet

Unpredictable, sometimes struggling, sometimes living more comfortably

Stable and living comfortably

Living very comfortably, never worrying about personal finances, saving for retirement, etc.

Would self-describe as "wealthy"

Does the owner have to work another job, other than their business, in order to make ends meet personally?

Yes

Questions about your relationship with DECI

All questions are optional and confidential

Become a member here!

If you don't want to be a member of DECI, what are some reasons why? (Select all that apply)

Do you participate in any other professional membership organizations, like DECI? (Select all that apply)

Thinking about Fall Festival specifically, how did this event impact your business, whether you participated or not? (Select all that apply)

How do other DECI events bring value to your business?

How can DECI better serve you and your business?

Anything else you'd like us to know?