Author Archives: Angela Shupe
8 Steps To Set Up An Online Business
articlevista: For stay at home moms, setting up an online business is one of the best solution for mothers who want to get back their financial freedom or want to continue pursuing their interest. Here are a concise and basic guideline for setting up an online business: 1.Choose a niche based on what you are [...]
StarTribune.com: Is it a work space for artists or a coffee bar with a gallery? The Studio at Rush Creek in Maple Grove is both. A copper coffee bar extends from one wall and a gallery lines another, with displays of stained glass, painted gourds and jewelry. “No one knows exactly what we do,” said [...]
Please Don't Call Me A Housewife
Daily Southtown: Not too long ago, a man taking down my personal information for some form or another asked me my occupation. I glanced at my two bosses, boys ages 4 and 2, who are far more demanding than any editor I ever knew. The man should have realized my glance toward my sons meant: [...]
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Business
The New York Times: Throughout her entrepreneurial career, Talia Mashiach has pursued another daunting activity besides starting companies: having children, four at last count. And she’s only 30. Enough’s enough, right? Wrong. She’d like to have a few more. This is good news for people who worry about the dwindling Jewish birth rate, but really. [...]
Jewish Light Online: Owning a business is tough. Raising children is even tougher, but Internet businesses provide more of a flexible time schedule, giving busy moms a little more leeway during their day. On top of having three triplet daughters to keep her busy, Sara Zigman recently launched her new children’s furnishing business, Three Little [...]
Encouragement And Motivation Available For Single Moms
PR.com: Sadly, single moms are left to wear many different hats, fulfill many responsibilities and encounter many different obstacles. “As single moms, we find ourselves, alone, afraid, ashamed, overworked, sleep deprived, discouraged and often under appreciated and stereotyped.” explains Christina Nolan, owner and author at ‘Refuge for a Single Mom’. “As a single mom myself, [...]
South Jersey Life: Since two Philadelphia women launched the mother of all Web sites last year, MomSpace has grown from a local start-up into a national resource. Joani Reisen and Erica Rubach, both mothers of two, founded the Drexel Hill-based MomSpace on the idea that “Moms trust other moms,” Reisen said. “The purpose of the [...]
Hawaii Business Magazine: The Hawaiian Lei Co., which went live in April 2005, was supposed to be a quiet little e-commerce business that stay-at-home mom Summer Campos could operate in her “spare” time. In other words, when her two young daughters were asleep. It may seem naive to think that a young mother could single-handedly [...]
Entrepreneur: Stephanie Sloim spent almost two years trying to start a business after she moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 2005. Though she had owned businesses before, finding one that would also allow her to spend time with her kids proved to be too much of a challenge, so she decided to find part-time work. But [...]
The Dallas Morning News: For 19 years, Kathy Peel has made it her mission to add standard operating procedures to the business of running a home. “Moms need help,” says the 56-year-old founder and chief executive of Dallas-based Family Manager Inc. “Nobody stands at the altar and says: ‘I do, and I will create a [...]
Mom Makes Greeting Cards Inspired By Struggle Against Disease
The Dallas Morning News: Sitting in her Plano living room, Emily Nitz Woods speaks slowly and deliberately about her long road and how it led her into the greeting and inspirational card business. Ms. Woods has survived a risky stem-cell transplant to combat scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease that hardens the skin. It can be [...]
Daughter Inspires Mom To Design Items For The Disabled
jg-tc online: “We’re GIB,” said Connie Lewis of rural Greenup, while she flashes her daughter a thumbs-up sign. Lewis and daughter Meredith are GIB, or Girls in Business, with their company Designs By Inspiration. Meredith was her mom’s inspiration for the company, which designs and sells items that make life easier for people with handicaps. [...]
Langley Times: Between running a home based business and chauffeuring her son to all the usual after school activities, a Langley mom has been spending her evenings over the past year pursuing a life-long dream. That dream is coming true this month with the release of her CD, Tunes in a paper bag. “I’ve missed [...]
Should Moms Franchise Their Businesses?
Thestreet.com: When you have a successful business model, you can’t help but wonder how to grow it. Often, that model of growth is franchising. But is franchising right for mom entrepreneurs? That depends on why you own a business. If your primary reason is to be home with your kids, then it’s probably not the [...]
Stay-At-Home Mom Crafts New Career With Pillows
Winston-Salem Journal: When Michele Stewart’s son, Caleb, was born three years ago, Stewart left her job as the information-technology manager of a Greensboro commercial real-estate company to be a stay-at-home mom. She had worked with the company for 12 years. “It was a high-stress position. Becoming a mom meant a different kind of stress,” she [...]
Celebrate Small Home Living At The Jewel Box Home
PR Web: Recent drops in housing values have many homeowners feeling trapped in tiny starter homes, but the market downturn may be fueling a so-called “cottage” industry. A Chicago mom-turned-entrepreneur is challenging the notion that families who buy or stay in smaller homes are “settling.” Genevieve Ferraro launched The Jewel Box Home to show people [...]
Daughter Helps Mom Escape Corporate Stress
The Detroit News: Although she has a master’s degree in business and years of experience in corporate finance, Devonna Adams got her most valuable financial lesson from her daughter. “I was driving with her one day and she said I made her want to cry because I didn’t smile all the time like I used [...]
PR Web: Online children’s wear retailer, Glamajama, is celebrating its fourth anniversary with a glam makeover of its website. The new website reflects the growth of the company with its sleeker design and new tagline “From the Crib to the Catwalk.” Owner and designer, Heather Nolte, added, “We’ve grown quite a bit these past four [...]
Grants Ready For Innovative Moms
Star-Gazette: If necessity truly is the mother of invention, it’s no wonder that women are to thank for many of the most widely used products in America — windshield wipers, diapers, automatic dishwashers and more. Now mothers across the country can turn their ideas for inventions and businesses into reality, thanks to the Mother of [...]
Times-News: Sue McLimans, owner of Bekins-Ford Transfer & Storage, views her seven full-time and two part-time employees the same way. They have all bowled on a league team together. And all of them recently went to Hawaii for the wedding of Kelsey McLimans, who works with his mom. “Everybody treats everybody else like family,” Sue [...]
Home-Based Internet Marketer Sponsors Moms Make Money Seminar
PR Web: Internet marketing mom Carrie Lauth will conduct a learning seminar called Moms Making Money Online from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Monday, July 11 at Miss Lila’s Tea Room on 110 W. Broad St. This 2-hour event is for women who want to discover how to earn money from home using the [...]
The Northwestern: Q You could very well be the patron saint for stay-at-home-moms who want to work. You created your own firm at home and it grew like gangbusters. How did you get it going? A A lot of it was word of mouth. It was friends and family who owned businesses. I didn’t do [...]
OC Register: In a showroom in Irvine, behind a plain door in a vanilla office park, the Cookie sisterhood is going gaga. The creator of the eponymous line of costume jewelry that is sold in a growing number of living rooms across the country is making a surprise appearance. Cookie Lee – black and white [...]
Santa Cruz Sentinel: When Christine Riccabona bought a bathing suit last year, it was an ordeal. The dressing room was the size of a closet, and the swimsuit model in the poster on the wall didn’t put her in the mood to buy. So she and her sister-in-law, Rebecca Riccabona, set out to change the [...]
Work-At-Home Moms: So You're Having A Baby
The Conservative Voice: I know it isn’t easy. Here you are expecting and needing to be pampered and appreciated, and you have to start thinking about how you are going to earn a good income working from home and taking care of a new baby at the same time.As if having a baby wasn’t enough [...]
Cake Maker Featured In People Magazine
Cabot Star-Herald: All Sam Parsley wanted was a good-looking, good-tasking cake. She got that, and more — the Cabot resident and professional cake-maker and her creations are featured in this week’s wedding issue of People magazine. Parsley didn’t get there by the direct route. Back in the early 1990s she — “Sam” being the name [...]
Contra Costa Times: The moment I met her, I knew she was a Minnesotan. Her crisp white apron, the way she came out on the porch to greet me for lunch — that’s so Midwestern. Kim Cole lives in Redwood Heights today, but her cooking career goes back to those childhood days in Marshall. “Growing [...]
OCRegister: Carol Barge, a 52-year-old mother of two grown children, has spent the past three years (and several hundred thousand dollars) painstakingly researching and perfecting a female undergarment she thinks has the potential to be huge seller. Barge – a former PTA mom and college graduate who has a resume that includes careers in sales [...]
Baby Swags Announces The 2007 Work-At-Home Mompreneur 'Must Have' Products
PR Web: Baby Swags prides itself on finding the best work at home mom products that reflect quality, functionality, practicality yet maintain a fun, stylish and trendy flair to them. Baby Swags is proud to promote the following products as the 2007 Must Have’s for all new and soon to be moms: BabyKakesink specializes in [...]
Bizy Mom's Offers Tutoring Career Kit To Moms
PR Urgent News: Bizymoms.com was created in 1997 by Liz Folger, a work-at-home-mom expert and author of the book, “The Stay-at-Home Mom’s Guide To Making Money From Home.” Bizymoms has grown tremendously over the years, and now more than 2.5 million visitors come to www.bizymoms.com every month, each with a work-at-home dream. Bizymoms Premium “TutorMonster” [...]
Mom Of 3 Helps Create New Memory Supplement
MarketWire: A local mother of three fed-up with her poor memory due to the overload of raising three young children and running a business has helped develop a new memory enhancement supplement that has been showing promise for those looking for relief from typical forgetfulness. Described as an Advanced Memory Enhancement Supplement, Ultra Focus provides [...]
Tips For Starting A Home-Based Business
SeattlePI.com: It was on the sidelines of one of Danni’s soccer games that Holt was inspired to start the business that now allows her to make breakfast for her daughter and drive her to school. At the matches, Lindsay and her husband Tate noticed mothers complaining about having to run back home to fetch jerseys, [...]
Internet Marketer And SAHM Offers Advertising Tips In New E-Book
PRWeb: Liz Martinez, a stay at home mom for the last 3 years, has written and published her first e-book on Free Advertising. She has compiled a list of free advertising sources but she has also explained the best way to use those resources. Martinez says “A list of resources for free advertising isn’t worth [...]
For Expectant Moms By A Mom Who Knows
PR.com: A new online haven for mom’s everywhere officially launches today, Mom-To-Be Depot. Mom-To-Be Depot is a one-stop-shoppe for everything moms need before, during and after pregnancy, offering a multitude of product reviews, expert advice, and health and beauty guides – to name a few. “Mom-To-Be Depot came to fruition because of the experience I [...]
New Tempe Company Looking For Moms
AZCentral.com: A new call center that lets its agents work at their homes, and that is especially popular with stay-home moms, has opened in Tempe. LiveOps, based in Palo Alto, Calif., opened an office in Tempe and will help recruit more than 1,200 home-based agents living in the Southwest, said Pam Smith, vice president of [...]
Working From Home, Technically
ABC News: No commute, a more flexible schedule and answering conference calls in your favorite Scooby-Doo slippers — the advantages of the “home” part of a home office are not hard to imagine. It’s the “office” part that tends to be more troublesome. Here’s the stuff, and the help, every home office owner needs to [...]
The Eureka Reporter: When it comes to maternity clothing, Humboldt County has little to offer. While the area boasts many specialty women’s clothing shops, few cater to the small but ever-present expectant-mothers niche. In response, Humboldt County resident Holly Johnson has taken matters into her own hands. Johnson is the proud owner of Expectations, a [...]
Farmington Daily Times: Kathy Yates had spent 16 years at home, raising her daughter, when her world was turned upside down and she was forced to find work to help support her and daughter, Aubrey. “After 16 years as a stay-at-home mom, I found myself needing to make a living for myself and my daughter,” [...]
Demand Spreads For Mom's Almond Butter
Sacbee.com: Jennifer Barney’s almond spread hit shelves in Fresno’s Whole Foods Market, Catalano’s Market and Sam’s Italian Deli & Market just about a year ago. Already, she’s expanded the geographic footprint for her Barney Butter to 15 chain stores in 50 markets. It’s sold in Draeger’s Markets in the Bay Area, Harvest Ranch stores in [...]
Making The Birth Less Of A Pain
Seattlepi.com: Like a lot of expectant parents, Kristina Peterson and Ian McAllister left nothing to chance. Their to-do list could have sent them scurrying all over town. Instead, they enjoyed one-stop shopping at Gracewinds Perinatal Services, whose personal, homey approach has earned a heap of awards for founder and CEO Christine Wallace. “I was finding [...]
Pippin McGee Strives To Anticipate Customer Needs
Kids Today: Kim Crouchet, owner of Pippin McGee in Lafayette, La., got into the juvenile industry the same way many retailers did — when she and her husband, Robert, had children, she realized there was a void in her local market. “When we had our first child, we walked into Babies ‘R’ Us and had [...]
New Rules Ease Summertime 'Hecktivity'
Pahrump Valley Times: Along with Hubby and the boys, I looked forward to the end of the school year with enthusiasm. A brief reprieve from dragging the kids out of bed every morning would be wonderful. For a couple of months, I would not have to make breakfast while putting together bag lunches — or [...]
It Takes A Tough Mom To Make Tender Cookies
delawareonline: The delicious fragrance greets visitors as soon as they step onto the driveway of the Leishears’ home in Milton. The scent emanates from a nondescript building behind the garage. This is the home of Bella’s Cookies, Delaware’s only natural and organic cookie company. The beach-area business, located in farmland just minutes from busy Del. [...]
Entrepreneur.com: Moms know everything. They know where their kids left their socks, they know what time the carpool leaves, they know how to get a cranky 4-year-old through a shopping mall. Given their mastery of multitasking, is it any wonder mothers make such good business owners? It was motherhood itself that inspired Laurie McCartney to [...]
Keeping A Home And Home Office
Smart Money: For many entrepreneurs, the decision to start a home-based business has to do with family. Sticking close to home, they reason, will keep them connected to children while providing extra income for the household. The problem? Simultaneously keeping up with the demands of children and a small business can be taxing, often making [...]
The Star-Ledger: Tami Covington makes her living answering the telephone. Perhaps she’s made your airplane reservation or helped send flowers to your mom. But instead of working in a cubicle in a call center on the highway, Covington answers the phone from the comfort of her Middletown home. Her flexible schedule is geared to her [...]
Julia Roberts Was Recently Baby Swagged With Work-At-Home Mom Products
PR Web: New celebrity mom, Julia Roberts, had been sent a one of a kind Baby Swags gift basket which contained pregnancy wear, infant clothing and many more work-at-home, mom-made or mom inspired products, all of which were essential to the remaining days of her pregnancy and the first days of her new baby’s life. [...]
Financial Planner And Mom Doles Outs Common Sense Advice On Money
Lower Hudson Online: Gayle S. Lob, a certified financial planner who lives in New Rochelle and owns Gayle Lob Financial Strategies in White Plains, offers her clients a healthy dose of common sense gleaned from the raising of her own children, who are now adults. Her goal? Help parents keep their financial sanity and raise [...]
The Roanoke Times: The final bell has rung and school is out. Let the fun begin. Well, the camps and the baby sitters and the dropping off and picking up, and the pool membership and … you get the point. It’s something children often don’t understand: Their elaborate summer plans can be a headache for [...]
Raising Kids And Running A Business
Contra Costa Times: Lane Nemeth has encountered a laundry list of challenges while building her two direct sales companies, PetLane Inc. and Discovery Toys. But having to “sign away her house” may not have been the biggest. “Having to raise a child as a mother and build a successful company was one of the hardest [...]
