Entrepreneurs Attracted to Home Based Business
Jenna Bean loves pets, so much so that she has turned her appreciation of the four-legged creatures into a thriving home-based business as a pet sitter.
In two years, her client base has jumped from a handful to nearly 90 pet owners.
“This has just exploded,” said Bean, an animal-science major at Fresno State University. “One day I had 12 stops to make. It was crazy.”
Bean joins the growing ranks of home-based entrepreneurs who opt to run their own companies in nontraditional ways. For many, including Bean, home-based businesses are cheaper to operate, more flexible and easier to control.
Recent Census data show that almost half of the nation’s 23 million businesses are operated out of the home.
“We are running at about a 10 percent annual growth rate,” said Rudy Lewis, president of the National Association of Home Based Businesses, in Maryland.
“I really couldn’t do everything I am doing if I had an office,” said Bean, who likes having few overhead business costs. “But what’s scary is how fast this has grown. This was supposed to be a side job to earn some extra money; now I am working on a Web site and brochures.”
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