Who needs offices these days. All you really need to do business is a phone, an email address, and an Internet connection. Whether it's a tea house, a coffee shop, or your car, local entrepreneurs are doing business everywhere (except the office).
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Their first conference call with a client took place via a car phone.
They spend a good chunk of each week working on their laptops in a tearoom in Royal Oak.
And they decidedly do not regret leaving the larger corporate world for the below-the-radar world of entrepreneurs.
Susan Ferraro and Jennifer Marsik Friess could be any of the thousands of recently laid-off professionals in Michigan who are now happily — if still sometimes nervously — self-employed.
In their post-corporate life, they tap the goodwill of coffee shop and tearoom owners for free table space (often lingering for hours over a cup of tea while poring over laptops), and barter for necessities like a new business logo. Networking is second-nature for them.
"Just because you've been downsized doesn't mean you lose your talent or your skills or your abilities," Ferraro said last week. "It simply means that you have to apply those in a different way than you've done in the past."
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