LaBella may be cheap to have as a business but....

As I've said many times before, I have time on my hands. I've been unemployed for three years now. I market for a exterior home contractor. I make money with that to stay with LaBellas and have money left over. I'm gaining ground all by myself and that's just fine with me. I love what I do and will have part time employment throughout the year. My Gift Basket business is growing but it is a business. It better be flying a year from now! 

Marketing consultant in Minneapolis

I can't believe how fast people latched on to my idea. In my quest to find little part time jobs as a semiretired person I found out what the economic climate of the nation is and how badly companies on both seaboards need to know someone in the mid west who knows the mid west culture. As I worked for one company on the east coast and another on the west who thought they knew our culture they began to latch on to me for my "expertise". We do not have the culture they thought we did! They thought we had all kinds of small businesses run by families, therefore open to new ideas and supportive of new business moving in near them. Most of those closed down do to the recession. What is left is corporate run chains who think in only dog eat dog terms. They hire employees who get a very small piece of the pie in their paycheck. They will never see any actual income simply because the boys at the top get it.
Now that we're recovering from the recession ever so slowly these companies have lost touch with what the climate is. It's changed. I'm proving that to them. So now I'm a resource, not an employee. Weird.