Archive for May 2nd, 2007
Entrepreneur Mom Celebrates Work At Home Moms Month By Offering Tips On How To Stay Sane
PR Leap: May is “Work at Home Moms Month,” designated to applaud the powerful women leading double lives with the dual identities of motherhood and business professional. Local Mom and Public Relations Professional Shannon Cherry, APR, MA, takes a breather to join in the festivities. “Being a mother and an entrepreneur is tough, especially when [...]
Home Based Working Moms: HBWM (Home-Based Working Moms) and WAHMfest (Work At Home Mom Expos) are proud to announce our strategic alliance to bring more benefits to HBWMs and WAHMfest participants. WAHMfest events are held around the country by and for moms who work at home and those who would like to. It gives moms [...]
Firms Help Employers, Work At Home Moms
BenefitNews.com: Workplace biases, increasing child care costs and a genuine desire to spend more time with their children are leading greater numbers of women to opt out of the workforce. Helping them along are several up-and-coming companies, founded specifically to aid working and stay-at-home mothers find the flexibility and benefits they need. Among them is [...]
Moms Set Up Birthday-Party Business
Sun Herald: Two stay-at-home Coast moms were having trouble finding new birthday-party ideas for their children after Hurricane Katrina, so they came up with the concept for a stuffed-animal party. A little more than a year later, Shannon Lutkins and Sharmin Culwell have turned their party skills into a business with 15 consultants nationwide and [...]
Entrepreneur Launches Baby Boomer Web Site
BizTimes Daily: Wisconsin entrepreneur Herschel “Buzz” Peddicord today launched BoomerTowne.com, a new informational Web site for all things baby boomer-related. The site features a variety of content on topics ranging from health and travel to retirement planning, as well as activities including weekly poll questions and a scavenger hunt with a grand prize valued at [...]
Entrepreneur: Of the thousands of business books published in the last 30 years, only a handful have withstood the assaults of changing times and changing objectives to remain as relevant today as when they first came out. This week we present five books worthy of space on any entrepreneur’s shelf–now and in the future. Today’s [...]
INPEX 2007, The Invention Show
PRWeb: INPEX, America’s Largest Invention Trade Show, announces that John Abdo, inventor of the AB-DOer, is slated as keynote speaker on Saturday, June 9, at the Greater Pittsburgh ExpoMart in Pittsburgh. The AB-DOer is the world’s first midsection aerobic machine and spinal mobilizer that has revolutionized the fitness industry for its ab trimming benefits. INPEX, [...]
Fewer Fed Contracts Going to Women Bizs
Inc.: Women small-business owners accounted for only 3.3 percent of all federal contracts awarded in 2005, below the government-wide target of 5 percent, a recent study found. Women owners were underrepresented in more than half of the industries analyzed, including manufacturing, construction, education services, and health care, according to the RAND Corporation, a non-profit research [...]
