I have 19 Yrs combo of retail and wholesale experience with companies in NYC. My partner (husband)and I want to try our hand in the marketplace. We've developed a product with a mill that is so simple, yet, we've not seen it in our travels to retailers or online. The apparel item is geared to motorcycle riders. My partner has ridden 43+ yrs and I 6 yrs. Our plan is to contact retailers, present our product and merchandising ideas to help them launch the product to their customers. The product will be shipped from the mill to the customer and we will bill from our home. We have set ourselves up as an LLC, have our EIN, a business bank account, and have a state tax id. We went to the county commissioners office to find out if we needed a business license and were told yes. We submitted the application and received a denial. We were then told we needed to file for a special exception. I am unclear on why this long process. Customers do not come to our home. We will travel to the retailers offices to present our item and hopefully secure an order. We will then have the order manufactured and shipped from a mill in NC to the retailer. We will be billed for that mdse and we will then bill the retailer. What are we to be considered in this process? Are we a business or an office? We plan to work out of a 7 x 9 storage room in our garage. We would like to have about 60 prs of our sock on hand at home. We'd like to have the flexibility to offer the sock online,should we be asked by friends if they could buy a pair. We'd collect the required tax, and mail them a pair. We estimate this may happen 10% of the time, as our target is to wholesale to retailers for them to resell to their customers. Thank you for your guidance.