[Hidden-tech] Size of Solopreneur Market

[Rich Roth]

There is very clearly a market - just ask Staples or any such supply 
company,
You can see it in their business offerings for printing and other 
services beyond just supplies
same with why UPS bought MailBoxes and Feded bought Kinko's
(not that you can get the numbers they work with.)

All are angling at the Soho market -- you might look directly at that 
acronym also
SoHo: Small Office Home Office

Also take a look at the reports our own Amy did for HT a few years ago,
at: http://www.hidden-tech.net/skills-report/reports.html
and
http://www.hidden-tech.net/skills-report/reports/128-reports-and-resources.html

Rich

On 3/25/2010 3:19 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
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> At Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:51:27 -0400 "Edbride-PR"<Ed at edbride-pr.com>  wrote:
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> Interesting quest. Is there, in fact, such a market? Comprising
> work-in-home marketing/PR consultants; designers; programmers; legal or
> medical transcribers; copy editors; gardeners; self-employed carpenters
> and painters; stock traders; political advisers/advisors; ad infinitum.
> Can one description be applied to all who fly solo?
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> The "solopreneur" represents a "market" for all sorts of business
> services, many of which a "normal" business would not need.  A "normal"
> business might include employees to handle many business functions "in
> house", where a "solopreneur" might possibly want to outsource some of
> these sorts of business functions.  In many cases one ends up with a
> 'fluid' collection of solopreneurs, where some of the business of many
> of these solopreneurs is in fact providing some business function for a
> number of other solopreneurs.  There are probably a set of solopreneurs
> who operate at a 'retail' level (self-employed tradespeople, crafts
> people, and the like) and many more solopreneurs whose clients are
> mostly other solopreneurs and who provide the 'missing' business
> functions that would normally be provided by staff people of a larger
> business.
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