StartupNation Honors Nation’s Top Home Businesses of 2009

Nov. 16, 2009 - PRLog -- [Mequon, WI] – Cake ‘n Crumbs has been recognized by StartupNation (http://www.startupnation.com) as a Top Ten business in its 2009 Home Based 100 competition under the category of Highest Vote Getter (http://www.startupnation.com/PHP_ROOT/hb100-2009/winners-highest-votes.html).
    Many of the StartupNation Home Based 100 submissions revealed that business owners are bucking the current economic downturn and finding business success in these tight times. Historically some of today’s most well known businesses started in a downturn, including Microsoft and General Electric.
    “The 2009 ranking shows that the home based business is more relevant than ever. The current recession has spurred a new wave of home based businesses as a response to loss of jobs, 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 advice websites. “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 become host to the innovative thinking and pursuit of success by millions of Americans.”
    “We are so excited to be named one of the Top 10 Highest Vote-Getters in the StartupNation Home Based Business Competition.  It’s about bringing awareness to your business,” said Kendra Arch, a Cake ‘n Crumbs Instructor.  “We had many first time visitors to our website from this competition.  Even if the person who visited our website isn’t interested in what we are offering, they may know someone who is and tell them about us.  It has a ripple effect.   That is how I heard of Cake ‘n Crumbs and eventually decided to join the company as an Independent Instructor over three years ago.  A young lady went to a class, told her mother about it, who told my sister-in-law, who then told me. “
    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 savviest in social media – this unique and diverse list highlights the home based businesses that usually go unrecognized, but still play a vital role in the economy today. MSN publishes the ranking as well in an editorial collaboration with StartupNation. The ten categories for 2009 include:
•   Recession Busters
•   Savviest in Social Media
•   Most Innovative
•   Boomers Back in Business
•   Greenest
•   Yummiest
•   Wackiest
•   Highest Vote-Getters
•   Most Slacker-Friendly
•   Most Glamorous
    The full results of the Home Based 100 ranking are available on StartupNation’s website at http://www.startupnation.com/homebased100/. The 2009 ranking was sponsored by Microsoft Office Live, Infusionsoft and FedEx Office.

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Cake ‘n Crumbs is a direct sales home based business that teaches hands on cake and cookie decorating and candy making classes. They currently have Instructors in 8 states. Visit their website to see How To Videos, an Idea Gallery, learn about their classes or to gain more information on how to become one of their Independent Instructors. http://www.cakencrumbs.com/