According to Home Based Business Magazine, men and women who operate successful home businesses make $50,000 a year on average. This is twice the median income for people who work outside of the home.

The Association for Enterprise Opportunity, an umbrella group for regional microlenders, estimates that 10 million entrepreneurs nationwide don’t qualify for traditional bank loans.

$2.7 million is the amount U.S. small businesses spent on smart phones in the second quarter of 2009.

720 million is the number of promotions for small business credit cards mailed in a recent year. That’s 26 for every small firm in the country.

70% of all small businesses are sole propriators.