More Moms Working At Home
If you’ve ever worked from home under less-than-ideal conditions, you’ll appreciate Kimberly Kayajan’s recollection of the first business call she made from her home.
Kayajan, now 36, was using a cell phone for her startup Internet business selling colorful flip-flop sandals. This was several years ago and, at the time, reception at her home was pretty bad. Kayajan also was taking care of her infant son that day. So there she was, “hanging my head out the window, not wanting to leave my child alone inside, trying to sound professional.”
These enterprising women represent a trend that small business experts are paying attention to. They are enough of a phenomenon that there is now a widely accepted name for them — “mompreneurs.”
There’s nothing new about mothers finding ingenious ways to earn money from home while raising their kids. But today, e-commerce makes it possible for such ventures to earn more than grocery money. Sometimes lots more.
Plus, the growth of home-based businesses in general has meant that mothers who are home-based entrepreneurs — OK, mompreneurs — now are taken seriously.
Kayajan is now in her fourth year combining motherhood with her business venture, which last year shifted its focus to selling monogrammed jewelry.
Until her children are in school full-time, she expects growth to be slow. “That is one of the challenges with being a stay-at-home mom. Right now my kids are my priority,” said Kayajan, who spends just a few hours a week on her business, mostly at night.
“I’m really lucky that right now I can do a little of both. For our family this is what works.”
Photo by woodsy.
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Tom Lindstrom on April 10th, 2008 7:55 am
More people are realizing that maybe they will not have a steady job until they get on pension.Working at home can give a nice supplemental income.
Tanya Middleton on April 10th, 2008 2:30 pm
Congratulations to every woman who can juggle a baby in one arm and a conference call with another. Working mothers need all the support they can get, and I am so proud to be apart of the growing and encouraging community of web based business women! I actually work with Microsoft, and right now I’m really excited to spread the word about the “Vision to Venture” tour they’re having between April and May, which will consist of five live events. Featured speaker, John Jantsch is a marketing and digital technology coach, award-winning social media publisher, and author of Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide, as well as many other speakers offering industry tips. The tour is fully geared towards women entrepreneurs and savvy web gals.You can see more and register at http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/v2v/ so let me know what you think! And if you have any questions, I’d be more than happy to answer them !
Dana Keith on May 8th, 2008 1:24 am
Such inspiring, not all Moms can do things like that..
Keep up the good work..:)
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