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As part of a home-based business boom, some female entrepreneurs are moving from corporate America into a shop-from-home, in-your-home business to gain economic independence and job autonomy. Paul Edwards, co-author of the book Home-Based Businesses for Dummies, said people such as Ladewig have the ability to make a good living by working from home. He said there has been at least a 10 percent increase in home-based businesses in the past 20 years, and some of them are very lucrative. More than 10 million home-based businesses exist in the United States, and a majority of people moving to home businesses are women, Edwards said. There are 14 million direct-selling businesses, such as Mary Kay and Country Peddlers, which have sales representatives of their wholesale products who work from home on commission. |
Posted August 20, 2007
