When Answer360 first went into business in 1997, there was a stigma attached to working from home. If you worked from home, you could not be taken seriously! Our customer would try to hide that fact that they did not have an office. “Let’s just meet at the coffee shop” or “I will be in your area, I’ll just stop by” were some of the excuses given for not allowing anyone to come to their office. I remember one client wanted to see our office really bad. I explained to him that we had an office but it was not pretty. At the time we were renting a room from one of our clients. He could not believe we could run a high end Hosted PBX service out of a spare room. Thankfully times have changed! Home based businesses are no longer viewed as inferior.

In fact, home based businesses are a $427 billion dollar industry. The average home based business brings in $63,000 a year. According to IDC, a top national research firm, there are between 34 million and 36 million home office households.

Now is a better time than ever to work from home. Turn the spare bedroom or even the den into a home office. It makes sense to cut cost and walk to the walk to work