Archive for the 'Mompreneurs' Category

From Dane’s Blog

The Wall Street Journal:

Lots of employers would like to be able to hire cheap, temporary teams of seasoned pros with experience managing $2 billion investment portfolios, running ad campaigns or earning Ph.D.s in neuroscience.
But few know the secret to finding temps of that caliber: Look on playgrounds and at PTA meetings.
The decision among […]

Entrepreneur: via Dane’s blog
Here’s some inspiration for you “mompreneur’s” out there.
After 15 years as a flight attendant for United Airlines, Denise Bein was offered a five-year leave of absence following 9/11. In that time, Bein raised her children and began to toy with a new kind of handy bag for the kitchen.
In fact, QuickSeals started […]

100 Women Who Care chapters sound like a great way for women entrepreneurs to get together locally in a context where they can not only network but also help the community.
Just a thought.

An open Letter from
Karen F. Dunigan
100(+) Women Who Care Founder
It started with Baby Beds. Who would have ever thought that a group […]

In a town ravaged by AIDs, widows, single moms, and needy moms unite in a microenterprise to survive. Several years into the project they find themselves thriving.
Their product? Recycling plastic grocery bags into pocketbooks.
From WORLD
The bags: colorful crocheted pocketbooks fashioned from recycled plastic grocery bags. Half of the revenue from each pocketbook goes to its […]

Sitagita.com is the Website For Indian Women Working From Home
Here’s the creator’s bio: Ms. Nirmal Mirza CEO. From a background of twenty successful years in textiles and home furnishing exports, Ms.Mirza took on the reigns of sitagita.com and has succeeded in making it India’s number one women’s portal.
Her favorite quote “See how you […]

Richmond.com - Local work-at-home mom Tracy Ebert will join thousands Feb. 12 in international observance of Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day.
Terry Ebert is a home based “virtual travel agent” and has been doing it for quite some time.
Click through to read her story.
Image courtesy Richmond.com

This young mother of two is an enterprising mompreneur and even a member of the Iowa National Guard. She’s launching her business as she finishes a business degree. Best wishes from the Work At Home Blog!
From Zwire
She started her home business two years ago with a wedding and event planning service, but with two small […]

The easiest way to get published is to not have to do the writing yourself.
Here’s an opportunity I spotted that I want to pass along to you:
Personal stories needed for my book, Money, Moms, and Miracles, written for MOTHERS WHO CHOOSE TO STAY HOME WITH THEIR CHILDREN and need to find ways to augment the […]

Alpine Access a leader in the home based customer service field got some press as they expand operations in the Pittsburgh area.
I find the opening line amazingly true: “There will be no politicians cutting ribbons to celebrate the region’s newest call center and the 100 jobs that it is bringing — jobs that start […]

Hopefully her 8 year old child will receive a kidney. In the meantime one thing that would make life easier is the ability for her to work at home.
I had a similar inquiry from a stay at home mom… I suggested she contact a virtual assistant temp firm.
Hopefully an employer will read the story locally […]