{"id":1693,"date":"2012-08-01T14:05:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2012-08-01T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:11:55","slug":"1693","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the 1099 Economy:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Excerpts, Bold emphasis mine<\/p>\n<ul><strong>More Americans are Becoming their own Bosses<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>by Joel Kotkin Forbes.com July 25, 2012 10:02 am<\/p>\n<p>While the economy has been miserable for small business, and many larger ones as well, <strong>the ranks of the self-employed have been growing<\/strong>.  Research by Economic Modeling Specialists International the number of people who primarily work on their own has swelled to over 10.6 million&#8230;.a 14% increase.  This rise is partially reflective of hard times, and the shift to self-employment is likely to accelerate in the future for reasons including the <strong>ubiquity of the Internet<\/strong>, which makes it easier for businesses to use <strong>independent contractors<\/strong>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Urban analyst Bill Fulton, concludes we may be seeing a <strong>fundamental change<\/strong> in how the economy operates. \u201cEven though there may not be jobs in the conventional sense, there is still work,\u201d Fulton notes.  \u201cThat\u2019s the whole idea of the 1099 economy. It\u2019s <strong>just a different way of organizing the economy<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results of EMSI\u2019s research is giving us a glimpse of where the <strong>future<\/strong> of economic growth may be taking shape. The <strong>biggest changes<\/strong> have taken place in four metro areas where the <strong>number of self-employed workers expanded over 10%<\/strong> between 2008 and 2012.  In order, <strong>Houston<\/strong> > Seattle > Phoenix > Riverside (CA).<\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneurial drive in <strong>Houston<\/strong> is clearly not a response to economic disaster \u2013 the city has a culture that encourages striking out on your own, and low costs and lighter regulation make it easier&#8230;.Indeed over the past decade, the <strong>Texas powerhouse led the nation <\/strong>in the growth of its 1099 economy, which <strong>expanded by a remarkable 51%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill&#8217;s Note:<\/strong>  We all know it&#8217;s tough out there.  Tune into any <strong>CNN<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>C<\/strong>onstantly <strong>N<\/strong>egative <strong>N<\/strong>ews for your fill.  The real hard question is;  What are we doing about it?  We may not admit, or like it, but the hard Truth is that our individual economy is totally within our control, and independent from the economy that surrounds us.  We are each <em>Response-Able<\/em> for our individual, and\/or our family&#8217;s economy.  And apparently a whole lot of people are choosing to start their own business as their solution. <\/p>\n<p>Decide, Take Massive Action, find a Mentor and Have a Most Excellent Day!<\/p>\n<p>Live With Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Excerpts, Bold emphasis mine More Americans are Becoming their own Bosses by Joel Kotkin Forbes.com July 25, 2012 10:02 am While the economy has been miserable for small business, and many larger ones as well, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1693\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,254,31],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2012","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}