Top Home-Based Business Honored in National Annual Ranking

Small Businesses Do It Better Wins Top Honors in StartupNation Home-Based 100 Business Competition

Seattle (I-Newswire) March 12, 2013 - Small Businesses Do It Better has been recognized as one of the top home businesses in the nation by StartupNation (http://www.startupnation.com) in its annual Home-Based 100 competition.

Many of the StartupNation Home-Based 100 entries showed that people are leveraging the efficiencies and lower overhead of home-based businesses to pursue their passion and bring in income during these tight economic times.

“The 2012 ranking reveals that home business is serious business - more relevant than ever. It’s a natural response to loss of job opportunities, the need for supplemental income and the sheer passion for blazing your own trail and running your own show,” said Rich Sloan, co-founder of StartupNation.com, one of the leading small business networking and knowledge hubs online. “Home based businesses are the biggest block of all businesses in existence and we expect numbers to grow ever greater as extra bedrooms, kitchen tables, basements and garages increasingly host the innovative thinking and pursuit of success by millions of Americans.”

“Placing in the StartupNation Home-Based 100 Business Competition in the “Most Innovative” category is what Small Businesses Do It Better is all about and validates our goals. This show is unique in the fact that it is live with a chat component for the viewers to ask questions through the host,” said Carissa Dunphy, Director of Small Businesses Do It Better. “Small businesses are extremely supportive of one another and they want to network and collaborate with other small businesses. What a better way to do so than in real time and in an environment with other like-minded entrepreneurs.”

The StartupNation Home-Based 100 highlights 10 top-ten lists making it not just your ordinary business ranking. From the wackiest, to the most innovative, to the best financial performers – this unique and diverse list highlights the home-based businesses that usually go unrecognized, but still play a vital role in the economy today. The full results of the Home-Based 100 ranking are available on StartupNation’s website at www.startupnation.com/home-based-100/2012-winners.

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About StartupNation
StartupNation has over 100,000 members, 2.5 million annual users and provides over 200,000 pages of business advice and networking for entrepreneurs. StartupNation is a free service founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs with the intention of providing a one-stop shop for entrepreneurial success, including blogs from a host of experts, podcasts, webcasts, eBooks, award-winning step-by-step advice, and more.

About Small Businesses Do It Better
Small Businesses Do It Better supports small businesses and helps them grow their network by featuring small business owners and their products on the Small Businesses Do It Better Show and accepting and promoting guest blog posts from entrepreneurs and industry experts. The guests featured on the show, the viewers of the show, and readers of the SBDIB blog provide amazing camaraderie and resources for one another and really do show that small business do it better. Small Businesses Do It Better recently ranked as the #2 Marketing and Management video Podcast in iTunes and was highlighted in The New York Times, MSN Money, multiple Shark Tank Blogs, and on numerous other websites.