These small businesses include the self-employed, freelancers, independent contractors, sole proprietorships, family-owned businesses, LLCs, corporations, S-corporations or partnerships.

These no-employee businesses brought in $970 Billion in revenues in 2006.  How do they do it?  And more to the point, how can you do it?

The government calls them “nonemployer businesses” — which only means they have no standard payroll but it hardly means they have no employees ( perhaps going by the name of “contractor” or “support services.”

In fact you really couldn’t do it, if you were all on your own.  But thanks to all the changles in the workplace today, you don’t have to do anything on your own.  All the help you need is in “the cloud” somewhere.

Need a worker or a team?  Go to Elance.com and hire them.

Today small business owners are likely to work freelancers and independent contractors, instead of taking on the constant overhead and fixed cost of employees.

Need a way for all these people, working on different tasks in different areas, perhaps across town or across the globe to work together?  Replace the cubicle, the conference room and the water cooler are collaborative platforms such as Central Desktop where people can post documents, tasks, milestones, can conference, or speak over the Internet.

Need even more basic help? Onebox is just one system which can provide you with a virtual PBX and receptionist to respond to callers, direct your callers, track you down if you want, and deliver all your emails, voice mails and faxes to your inbox, to peruse at your convenience.

Need a personal assistant, someone to do the unglamorous and time consuming tasks for you, freeing your time up for more critical work?  You have a huge number of choices including Tasks Every Day or again, your choice from a wide selection of organizations with virtual assistant skills on Elance.com

The bottom line is you don’t have to have a big organization to make big bucks.  You do have to work smart and, eventually, if you want to grow, you will have to delegate.  But today, there are many economical and effective ways to do that by searching the “Cloud” and acquiring expert support wihout incurring major expense.