Baltimoresun.com:
Beth Adams spends the day fulfilling people’s to-do lists, everything from cleaning closets to picking up prescriptions to buying flowers. Then the co-owner of a Baltimore-based personal assistant firm and mother of four returns home – where she runs errands at no charge.
“I’ll have to take someone to the game, or I’ll have to take someone to the orthodontist, or ‘How come no one told me that we’re out of dog food,’ or ‘When am I going to get my husband’s shirt from the cleaners,” said Adams, who could use a break this Mother’s Day from her jobs running both My Girl Friday, Baltimore and her own home.
Adams is among a growing sector of moms who are combining business dreams with multitasking skills to create an economic niche without leaving home. These entrepreneurial mothers – some call them mompreneurs – are infusing the marketplace with novel goods, services and approaches to customer service.
According to the Virginia-based Center for Women’s Business Research, the number of women-owned businesses increased 32 percent from 2002 to 2008. During the same period, revenues generated by those businesses increased 48 percent and employment by such firms went up 27 percent.
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