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Home-based business has come to represent a large segment of today’s workforce and a powerful force in the economy. In fact, due in a large part to modern technology, almost every kind of business imaginable is being run out of a home office somewhere. Unfortunately, those same home businesses are often regarded as “little hobbies.” Both of us were in home-based businesses long before we started teaching business classes and writing and publishing business books. It would probably be impossible to count the times that we were told what wonderful hobbies we had. We liked our businesses, but can assure you that our reasons for being in business were measured in dollars as well as fun.

The truth is that a home-based business owner will have to expend extra effort to prove credibility and attract customers. Many professional business organizations, including chambers of commerce, are forming focus groups to help overcome this stigma. Meanwhile, professionalism is the only weapon that can be effectively used to overcome misconceptions about the seriousness of this major economic force.