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You're Not SuperMompreneur, Don't Try To Be
MSN Business On Main: Oh, the freedom of being your own boss. So many working mothers see it as the answer to their work-life balance woes, but once they embark on entrepreneurship many get a harsh dose of reality — it can be harder than working for THE MAN. Take Renee Wood, a mother of [...]
From The Corner Office To Flex-Mom
Women are quickly becoming aware of what working from their own home (whether it is for an employer or by starting a home business) can do for them. A great example of what flex time can do for a mom, and the company that employes her, is shown in this article from the Huffington Post. [...]
Mom Slips Into Non-Slip Biz Idea
Herald Community: Corrie Wilder, 37, of Bellmore, and Yelena Mogelefsky, 31, of Merrick, became fast friends when they shared a commute on the Long Island Rail Road. Now, six years after they met, the pair no longer ride the train together, but more than ever, their lives are headed in the same direction. A simple [...]
Big Idea Earns Mom Big Paycheck
abc15.com: It’s a trend a lot of mothers are cashing in on. They’re quitting their 9-to-5 jobs, staying home with the kids and starting their own companies. Amy Maschue’s big idea is now earning this Phoenix mom a big paycheck. Maschue’s busy life consists of being a wife, a mother of four children and running [...]
Tap The $100 Billion Potential Of Hyperlocal News?
Fast Company: Outside the local train station, the Maplewood Civic Association maintains a bulletin board plastered with news of jazz festivals and yoga classes for this small, affluent New Jersey town. One day last winter, an unassuming new flyer appeared, nestled between ones hawking a fish tank and a drum set, titled, “Introducing the Local.” [...]
5 Time Management Mistakes Business Owners Make
As a work at home parent, no one knows better than us what can happen if we don’t manage our time properly. The Denver Women’s Business Examiner recently posted her list of 10 time management mistakes that happen to ring true for all mompreneurs, whether or not you’re in Denver. Below are 5 of those [...]
photo credit: Matt Callow Bill Wyman: The problem of the daily press in the U.S. is exclusively this: the collapse of its business model. That model used to be, plainly put, making money—a lot of money, oceans of money—delivering advertising on newsprint into peoples’ homes. Subscribers didn’t pay for news. Advertisers did. Remember “shoppers,” the [...]
Family Business Comes Full Circle
coshoctorntribune.com: Edie Ryan is back where she got her start. Edie Ryan’s Family Restaurant made the move this week from its 402 S. Second St. location to 585 S. Whitewoman St., a spot known for more than 50 years as Spitler’s Restaurant. “This is where I first started waitressing in Coshocton,” Ryan said. She opened [...]
Resources For El Paso Mompreneurs
I recently found an article that was posted a short while back by the El Paso Motherhood Examiner that offers a lot of valuable information for mompreneurs in the El Paso region. Below are some of the resources that Lisa Clark mentioned: Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce: This organization offers opportunity for networking, staying [...]
Designer Takes Vintage To A Whole New Level
examiner.com: Always inspired by clothing of the past, local designer Lynn Van Brocklin–born and raised in East County–has been altering and reconstructing vintage garments for herself for the past decade. After becoming a mom a few years ago, she turned her hobbies into a successful online business, and is now one of those lucky people [...]
Mom/Daughter Team Make The Clothes That Strippers Remove
Oregonlive.com: Let’s say you’re a stripper. Or maybe you just like to wear lavish or fantastical clothes. Filmy things. Sparkly things. Heels high enough to redefine the meaning of high heels. The thing is, you have very particular needs. A certain slinkiness, obviously. But whimsicality doesn’t hurt, either. As it turns out, there are plenty [...]
Mom's Business Is To Send Your Kids Mail
examiner.com: Clever mompreneur, Sherri-Lee Pressman, took note of just how much her kids loved getting mail. In fact, she says her kids would often ask, “Is there any mail for me?” “I literally came up with the idea standing at the mail box with my then three year old son asking if there was any [...]
The Entrepreneurs Behind The US Half Of MyPacifier.com
examiner.com: Examiner: What is your business all about? Carol: The company, MyPacifier.com, was started by our family in Denmark when the founder, Pia Callesen, was tired of picking her son up from daycare and finding another’s pacifier in his mouth. She was tired of being told to write the name with a Sharpie on the [...]
WAHMs Are Finding Jobs Benefit Finances and Family
TCPalm: As the economy sputters and unemployment increases, more Treasure Coast moms are working at home to bring in extra money quickly without disrupting their schedule. Jean Jannetty of Vero Beach has been a stay at home mom for 14 years. But her husband’s construction company hasn’t been doing well, so Jannetty began looking around [...]
Moms Made For Friendship And Partnership In Business
Naperville Sun: Kristy Brezinsky and Kristen Frederick have paired their two favorite pastimes: fashion and fundraisers. Frederick, 40, met Brezinsky about four years ago after a mutual friend hooked them up, saying the two women were meant to be friends. Each had a background in fashion design and modeling — skills the two women have [...]
Canada.com: ‘Mommy, I have a wedgie” is a common refrain heard by moms potty training a daughter. Panties ride up. They get stuck. Or they sag. Too tight or too loose, they bother little girls because they just don’t fit right. Quite frankly, Rebecca Winterhalt had had enough. So it was serendipitous when, last summer, [...]
Mom & Daughter Designer Make Biz Out Of Pillows
Mlive.com: Shelly Klein is a wisp of a woman with a little fluff of a dog but her ideas are huge. “I’m just about to make some pillows,” she says, as Sugar frolics around her Northeast Grand Rapids studio. Her commercial embroidery machine whirs as Klein explains the designs on her pillows that have caught [...]
What Does Hair And Salsa Have In Common? Lulu.
Keloland.com: You may not think this would be an easy time for the entrepreneur to find success. But one KELOLAND mom says business is heating up in the salsa industry. When you see it on grocery store shelves, you can’t help but notice the label, along with the unusual name, “LuLu’s Big Hair Salsa.” That [...]
Mompreneurs Are Building Empires
Atlanta Metro News: Like any small business owner, Tanya Primo-Jones spends many hours a day managing inventory, making sales calls and minding the finances of her home-based company, Primo Activewear of Alpharetta. Unlike most, she does it with three young boys underfoot. Primo-Jones is a mompreneur. She is one of an unknown but, observers believe, [...]
The Mommy Minds Behind the Miche Bag
Examiner.com: Examiner: What is your business all about? Michelle: It’s all about every woman’s first love! Convenience, low cost and cute HANDBAGS! We achieve this with interchangeability! Check it out at www.michebag.com. The Miche Bag eliminates hassle by letting you change the outside of your hand bag in 3 seconds flat with a new “shell”. [...]
Mom's Business Makes Sure You Will Stay On Task This School Year
Examiner.com: The back-to-school rush is imminent and that means saying farewell to lazy days and hello to organized structure. Enter, Mom Agenda–a company with great products that help you get back on the (school) bus with relative ease and a sense of calm. The Mom Agenda itself is a terrific planner that enables moms to [...]
Bigger Isn't Always Better, And These Mom's Know It
Examiner.com: Although she has lived in the United States for nearly 15 years, Orlando resident Ceci Livingston couldn’t help but notice the difference between the product offerings for babies and toddlers in the US versus her native Sweden. “In Sweden we were used to clean lines and functional products. Less is more, so to speak. [...]
Campbell River Mirror: Leslie Hanes thanks her kids for her nomination as Mom Entrepreneur of the Year. After all, if it wasn’t for her two daughters asking “we need this” or “we need that” for their equestrian events, Hanes may have never started her fast-growing business, Discovery Trekking Outfitters. “They kept asking me to make [...]
Appleton Post-Crescent: Q: You’re an entrepreneur at the helm of a growing jewelry business and a mom of a growing family. How do you juggle the two? A: I ask myself that all the time. I ask other women all the time. We all come up with the same answer: We do the best we [...]
Ex-Single Mom And Author Offers Inspiration To Single Moms
examiner.com: Henderson resident, author, life coach and business woman Honorée Corpron has been there. As a former single mom, she knows what it is like to feel alone and go through the emotional and financial struggles that only single parenting can bring. In her book, The Successful Single Mom, she explains how to move on [...]
Concierge Service For Moms, Started By Moms
San Jose Mercury News: One was an attorney, the other an engineer. With high-pressure careers, young children and busy households to manage, both were tired of running full speed on the Silicon Valley treadmill. “We were leading hectic, corporate lives,” said Carmela Guizar-Sanchez, the engineer. “I had a second job just managing the housekeeper, gardener, [...]
A Look At The Mom Behind KidCards
examiner.com: Examiner: What is your business all about? Melissa: KidCards Ltd. produces KidCards® Greeting Card Books; award-winning activity books that kids can use as an outline in creating one-of-a-king greeting cards! Each book is made up of cardstock pages that can be easily removed and folded into a greeting card. Currently, there are 2 All-occasion [...]
Mom's Finds Niche In Baby Care
Atlanta Metro News: Two metro Atlanta moms have figured out how to turn cranky babies into a thriving business. Laura Hunter and Jennifer Walker never thought of themselves as entrepreneurs until about five years ago, after a little advice from country crooner Kenny Rogers. Today they are published authors, Web site operators and sought-after consultants [...]
Mom's Gluten-Free Food Biz Grabs Community Attention
Greenville Online: Thumbs Up to Travelers Rest resident Rise Myers who is meeting a need for gluten-free baked goods through a business called Screamin’ Good. Myers started the business for all the right reasons: so she could provide good-tasting, gluten-free treats for her autistic son who also has celiac disease. After much trial and error, [...]
Out To Lunch Brings New Meaning For Mom-Owned Business
News-Record.com: The production area of this textile manufacturing company is a swath of concrete and brick walls and red, blue, hot pink, black and yellow fabric. Until last year, the palette at Fuller Specialty was entirely monochromatic. Their product: mostly mesh sports jerseys and gym bags. Then Sue Catherine discovered the company on the Internet [...]
What Ice Cream Man? This Is The Mom & Daughter Ice Cream Team
wcco.com: Who doesn’t remember the ice cream man? It seems no matter what you were doing when the ice cream truck went by, you ran to go get money. A local mother got nostalgic. She and her daughter thought it would be a refreshing memory back to the suburbs. The familiar sounds of the ice [...]
Lawyer Turned Coach Builds The Wealth Spa To Help Likeminded Women Entrepreneurs
examiner.com: It’s not often we see the words “holistic” and “wealth” used in the same sentence, but holistic wealth is the theme Elizabeth Potts Weinstein promotes on her business coaching website, The Wealth Spa. “Being wealthy isn’t just about money,” Weinstein says. “We hear many stories about wealthy people who are miserable. What I like [...]
Recession Turns Many Laid Off Workers Into Entrepreneurs
CNNMoney.com: Desperate for a job? How does CEO with a six-figure salary and flexible hours sound? With fewer jobs available and more people feeling shut out of the labor market, many would-be 9-5ers chose to go out on their own. Challenging economic times can encourage entrepreneurial capitalism, according to a recent study by the Ewing [...]
The Mom & Dad Behind Little Keeper Sleeper
examiner.com: Examiner: Tell me something unique/interesting about yourself. Kris: We met each other when we were sixteen years old and dated each other for ten years before getting married, so we are high school sweethearts! Many people are intrigued that we have triplets. In fact, it’s because of them that we were inspired to create [...]
Mom Builds Business One Bead At A Time
Examiner.com: Coral Springs mom, Kay Klasen, started her home business, Kay’s Gems and Treasures, quite by accident. “A friend found stylus leashes for her children’s DS games online, but felt the price was too high. I started shopping for beads to make them, and got hooked on beading.” A working Mom with a special needs [...]
photo credit: aloshbennett Tim Berry recently posted an article suggesting that the age of newspapers is on it’s way out if not already out. However, I do still see many people today reading newspapers including myself. I think there is still a great deal of people who rely on the newspaper for their news, [...]
Direct Sales Opportunity Suits Mompreneur To A "Tea"
Brantford Expositor: “I’m a single-parent mom and I work full-time,” said Giosi, of Brantford. “This is a great way to supplement my income. “It’ll help pay for renovation or help with my daughter’s college or university education.” And, she added, there are a few other benefits. It is a heck of a lot of fun, [...]
Bee-Tee Business Booms During Rough Economy
WSPA: An Upstate mom says people stop her in airports and on the streets to ask her where she got her daughter’s t-shirt. It turns out she designed it to teach character to her two-year-old daughter Lena. Melissa Patton is the mom behind Bee-Tees. She designs t-shirts, hats, and bags with simple, inspirational thoughts: “Bee [...]
Mompreneur Opens New Handbag Shop
Community Newspaper Group: A Cedar Falls mom is carving out her niche in Waverly. On June 1, Carmin Stickfort opened Purses Galore at 102 E. Bremer Ave., offering bags in trendy new styles and replicas of celebrities’ designer carryalls. The store is a brick-and-mortar incarnation of her first business venture, Hot Purses, a series of [...]
SAHM's & The Home-Based Business
Examiner.com: Lisa Burnham and Shannon Windsor offer some guidance to the stay at home mother who is considering starting a home based business. Approximately a year ago, Burnham decided to become a Tupperware® consultant so she could help raise money through fundraisers for her Mothers of Preschoolers group and to help contribute to the family [...]
Rising Cost Of Childcare Leads More Moms To Work From Home
Examiner.com: According to the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA), there are more than 96,000 women in the workforce in Arkansas with children under the age of six. This is more than 63% of mothers in the state. The national numbers are even greater, with more than 9,000,000 mothers of small [...]
Mompreneur Turns Gifts Into A Business
Rockford Register Star: When Joelene Chinn finishes one of her creations, it’s a bit like Rockford’s infamous Sock Monkey — gone punk. The 33-year-old mother is the mastermind behind the rockin’ sock dolls popping up throughout the Rock River Valley. It’s only been a few months since she launched her business, Socks That Rock, but [...]
Moms Create Business Plan That's In The Bag
San Francisco Examiner: Peninsula residents Jan Mercer and Caryl Parker went with a simple business model: see a need and fill it. One year later, their small company, which designs and sells environmentally sustainable shopping bags, is thriving. Mixed Bag Designs — founded by the two stay-at-home moms in February 2008 — began simply as [...]
Running A Home Business & Earning Extra Income As A Single Mom
Elites TV: Single mom’s often are in a difficult predicament, as they have to earn an income but at the same time they have children who need to be cared for. The are many ways to run an online home based business and it’s not very difficult to do The biggest problem with most people [...]
Mom Makes A 'Killing' With New Business
Kitsap Sun: You might say she’s stabbed, shot and strangled her way into a business she says is perfect for stay-at-home moms. Rae Walaska, 29, of Port Orchard started Murder & Mayhem: Murder Mystery Parties a few months ago and already has gone from whodunits in her home to some big-time public fundraisers. Not bad [...]
Mother/Daughter Scrapbooking & Business At Mom And Me
Examiner.com: Mom & Me opened their doors in 1997 on the corner of 3300 South and 2300 East and moved to their current location nearly 3 1/2 years ago. It began as an adventure by a mother and her three daughters. “At the time we opened, there weren’t many other scrapbook stores and those that [...]
Mom's Recycling Business Offers Job Opportunities To The Disabled
Chicago News: A northwest suburban mom started a small electronics recycling business that has given people with disabilities jobs. Since October 2007, Recycling Avenue has sold over 1,500 items. It’s a growing and successful business that is doing something good for both the environment and disabled community. “We collect the recycles, the recyclable items and [...]
New Networking Site For Charlottesville Mompreneurs Has Been Launched
NBC29: A Charlottesville entrepreneur is bringing moms together. Angie Brement, of Angie Brement Photography, launched C’ville Entremom Tuesday. The networking website features local mom-owned business and marketing professionals. Brement says because so many moms are juggling their business and children, there isn’t a lot of time to meet other entrepreneurs. “Most days, I you know [...]
photo credit: √oхέƒx™ It appears that the reports of the death of the incandescent lightbulb were greatly exaggerated: When Congress passed a new energy law two years ago, obituaries were written for the incandescent light bulb. The law set tough efficiency standards, due to take effect in 2012, that no traditional incandescent bulb on the [...]
Oregon Helps The Unemployed Start Their Own Business
While this is not directly connected to mom-entrepreneurship, this is a great example of what our government can do for those of us that find ourselves unfortunately unemployed. This could also make for a wonderful opportunity, allowing working moms who have recently been laid-off the chance to become mompreneurs. OregonLive.com: Management consultant Mike O’Daly lost [...]
