Making a business work from home takes discipline, drive, brains and more than anything, a willingness to study yourself and find the thing to do that most resonates for you personally. Greg Steckler loves designing homes, he loves logs, he loves the outdoors, and he loves working from his log home miles from others.
Joel Greene is a fine artist who paints at home. His work is offered for sale at a gallery on Santa Fe's famous Canyon Road. Joel tells us that honing a specialty is the best way to win customers.
The business owners in the rest of this episode all live and work in a high-rise condominium building in downtown San Diego. This is the set of Small Business School which is created by film makers inside Bruce and Hattie's home in the high-rise.
Bruce Camber, the founder of this television series, knows that small business owners can perform just like a big business if they buy and implement technology wisely.
Ron Bowman grew up poor and put himself through school. He was fascinated by an architecture course so he started fixing up houses for people. Today he owns commercial space that he developed himself.
The business owners we know don't need to work anymore. They have done good things, they have created value for their employees, their customers and themselves but they continue to get up and go to work everyday because they are obsessed with doing good and doing more. Bud Crystal is studying the charts on his four computer screens.
Barbara Granneman is such a soft-spoken gentle soul it is surprising to learn that the piano teaching business she started went from zero to 45 employees in just two years. She had the right idea at the right time and in the right place.