Home Based Business Finally Getting Recognition

I've been working from home for most of the past 40 years. Some of the businesses I've worked with have had "real" offices - and sometimes I've spent much of my time for months on end going to those offices, but I've always maintained a home office where I've done work.

I've hired people without meeting them face-to-face - and worked with some of them without ever meeting them. Some of my customers do much of their business from their home - and there are major benefits to them because of this; not the least of which is some tax advantages as my good friend, David Ingram, will tell you.

The business world is finally getting to understand that this is a viable way of running businesses. A study recently done by Emergent Research shows just how much impact we home-based businesses(Business Week) have on the economy.

The "Homepreneurs" include some who have more than $500,000 annual revenue with median household income being as much as 50% higher than the typical household ($75,000 vs $50,233) in the US. Many of the respondents to the poll had been in business for more than 15 years (like yours truly) and only 20% had been in their home-based business for less than 5 years.

One of the major things that I've enjoyed in my home-based business is the freedom to go and do pretty much what I want, when I want. The sun is currently creeping around the corner of the blinds in my office, threatening to spill onto my computer screeens after being gone for the past three weeks - and I'm due for a ride in the country on my Honda Goldwing. So.. instead of sitting here and writing more for you all, I'm going out - don't you wish you were able to do that too?