There’s No Biz Like A Home Biz


Vernon Morning Star:

When Sue Recksiedler looks past her husband’s shop – brown aluminum with custom wood windows – and down MacDonald Road to count the other home-based businesses in her neighbourhood, it takes her a minute.

There’s the welder, the antique dealer, the couple who manufactures equipment for bridges and the veterinarian.

“The whole road consists of home-based businesses,” said Recksiedler,

Chamber of Commerce, manager Patti Noonan said there has been a significant rise even in the last year of inquiries about starting a home-based business.

“In our office we are seeing an increase in the amount of folks coming in for information on them and how to start them,” said Noonan, adding many of those people are stay-at-home moms looking for ways to make extra money or retirees wanting to do traces of their former career as consultants.

There has also been an increase in the number of bed-and-breakfasts, a sector seeing a resurgence with the introduction of bed-and-bales for travellers with horses; and a rise in agricultural tourism ventures.

Getting her business’s name out there is one of the aspects of working from home Laurie Williams, who runs a consulting service, is adjusting to after moving to Armstrong two years ago.

“One of the things I find challenging is promoting my business. I love it when the work comes to me,” said Williams, who writes reports and conducts research from an office on the main level of her family’s home.

Photo by brokenarts.

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