Business Opportunities Weblog

November 27, 2007 by Rich Whittle | 1 Comment

Entrepreneur:

They roll out of bed in the morning and head off for work–still in their pajamas. They work from their dining room tables, stock inventory in their cupboards and arrange meetings in the lobbies of their local hotels.

They set their own schedules, jog on the beach during their lunch breaks and give out their house keys to employees across the city.

This is what life is like for Andrew Aussie, co-founder of Honest Foods, a natural foods company; Stacey Roney, founder of Beauty on Call, a staffing agency for the beauty industry; and Meg McAllister and Darcie Rowan, co-founders of McAllister Communications, a PR firm.

Using their homes as their headquarters, these entrepreneurs, along with a growing number of others, are running successful businesses without even stepping foot outside their front doors.

A May 2006 study released by the SBA’s Office of Advocacy reveals that America’s homebased sole proprietors generate $102 billion in annual revenue.

Aussie, Roney, McAllister and Rowan learned from experience and mastered the discipline. Here, these successful entrepreneurs open up about the ins and outs of running a business from home, including how to ward off loneliness, set up shop, deal with zoning laws and insurance issues, bring employees into the home and project a professional image.

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Photo by MSDesigns.

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Tags: Self-employed, Strategy, Work at Home