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iQuestions Faculty, Randy and Elizabeth Draper 
 
 
Question: 
 
What are the benefits of building a home-based, direct-selling 
business? 
 
Answer: 
 
ELIZABETH: I see lots of things that are a great benefit in owning your 
own home-based business. One would be the flexibility. You get to 
work the time that you want to work. No matter what your kids’ 
schedule is you can work around it. You have plenty of time to be able 
to do all the things you want. You can even do the things you don’t 
want to do.  
 
Flexibility is one of the most important things that I think we’ve 
discovered in owning our own business. 
 
RANDY: We love the control. We’ve been doing this for 21 years, and 
Elizabeth started out as a stay-at-home mom wanting to make some 
extra money. I was a full-time homebuilder and we didn’t have a lot of 
control because everything I did was always an out-of-control 
experience. 
 
But having our own home-based business has given us the ability to 
have control around the things we want to do, work it as hard as we 
want to, have fun as much as we want to, and do the things that are 
really important to us. 
 
ELIZABETH: Having a home-based business had increased our quality 
of life. We have been able to go on vacations and do things with our 
boys that we never dreamed would be possible. They have been able 
 
to travel places that most of their friends never have been able to go 
to, because we own our own business. 
 
We have had all the things that you desire in life— let them go to their 
own college, the college they choose because you can afford to do it; 
have the extra money when braces are needed, and you don’t know 
where the money is going to come from— a home-based business gives 
you that ability to have the quality of life that you want that you can’t 
have when you are working a 9-to-5 job.  
 
RANDY: We have been able to enjoy a lot of tax benefits from being in 
our home-based business. I would encourage you to find a tax 
accountant or a CPA in your area and get with them and ask them to 
tell you some of the benefits. They are awesome! 
 
The nice thing about being self-employed is we get to keep most of 
what we make, because there are so many great benefits and tax 
advantages to having your own business. 
 
ELIZABETH: We also enjoy the relationships we’ve made as a result of 
our home-based business— not just the relationships within our own 
family, but outside of our immediate family. We have met so many 
incredible people, and have become great friends with them. That has 
totally enriched our life.  
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