StartupNation Honors Nation’s Top Home-Based businesses

Military Brats Registry Wins Top Honors in Business Competition under “Boomers Back in Business” category

Redlands, CA – November 22, 2008– Military Brats Registry has been recognized by StartupNation (http://www.startupnation.com) as one of the top businesses in its annual Home Based 100 competition under the category of “Boomers Back in Business”.
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 2008 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 excited to be recognized by StartupNation.com in the top 10 home-based businesses of 2008. Since 1997 The Military Brats Registry has been helping people who grew up in the military find their long lost friends. Over 85,000 have joined our site which began from my own desire to find my lost friends from Fort Bliss Texas in 1960-61.”

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 ten categories for 2008 include:
• Best Financial Performers
• Most Innovative
• Boomers Back in Business
• Greenest
• Yummiest
• Wackiest
• Grungiest
• Recession Busters
• Most Slacker-Friendly
• Most Glamorous

In addition to StartupNation staff, judges for this year’s Home Based 100 ranking included Adam Lowry, co-founder of Method Products, Howard Behar, former President of Starbucks North America, John Jantsch, founder of Duct Tape Marketing, Mel Robbins, host of Make It Happen radio show.
The full results of the Home-Based 100 ranking are available on StartupNation’s website at http://www.startupnation.com/hb100.

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About StartupNation
StartupNation (www.startupnation.com) provides over 175,000 pages of business advice and networking for entrepreneurs and serves millions of entrepreneurs annually.. . 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 the Startupnation’s Founders – The Sloan Brothers
StartupNation co-founders and “chief startupologists,” Rich and Jeff Sloan, are two of the country’s leading small business experts and ran their business from home for eight years. The Sloan brothers speak frequently at entrepreneurial forums and act as sources for top media venues nationwide. They are authors of StartupNation: Open for Business, published by Doubleday, and provide their insight online at www.startupnation.com. The Sloan brothers are regularly quoted and featured in media such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune Small Business, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX News and many others.

Armed Services YMCA

To deliver a bit of joy to our military families, the Armed Services YMCA is currently selling Christmas ornaments for $10.00 each.

To proudly show your support, printed on these white ornaments with an American flag is:

"God Bless America and Our Military Families."

Made from unbreakable acrylic, each ornament is packaged in a lovely box, making this a perfect stocking stuffer or gift for the office holiday exchange.

Please call (910) 436-0500 if you are in the Fort Bragg/Fayetteville area or mail $10 plus $3 S&H to:
Armed Services YMCA
208 Thorncliff Drive
Fayetteville, NC 28303

Proceeds from this sale provide support for military service members and their families experiencing hardship during the holidays.

Research Study for Military Brats

You are being invited to participate in a research study for adults who grew up in the U.S. Military (i.e., military "brats"). This survey will investigate childhood experiences, adulthood relationships, and cultural identity amongst adult military brats.

You are eligible to participate if you 18 years or older and grew up as a dependent in the U.S. military. The survey will take approximately 15-30 minutes. Your participation is greatly appreciated, and it will contribute to our understanding of growing up in the military.

Interested individuals should click the following link to be taken to the anonymous and confidential survey webpage:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=gKUyYXpREKnyHSvQt1zyPA_3d_3d

This survey is a dissertation study by Codi Schale, M.A. from the UMKC Department of Counseling Psychology and is not affiliated with Military Brats Registry. For more information, please contact Codi by email: clwmq7@umkc.edu.


Please feel free to forward this survey to anyone you feel may be interested. Permission is granted to post this message on listservs, webpages, emails, or announcements, and such advertisement is encouraged.