I'm looking at the independent idea a lot lately. This is for independent consultants who have been on their own for two or more years. Just a couple of questions:

1) What's the population of your metro area?

2) What's your primary method of developing new business: word of mouth, ads, luck?

3) Do you find yourself working for a lot of the companies you used to work for as an employee?

4) How do you deal with things like insurance, etc?

I'm going to thank everybody in advance so I won't waste bandwidth.

Thanks!!!!!