Archive for the 'Mompreneurs' Category

Summer is stressful for Mompreneurs. Work at home moms love their children, but having them home all day long in the summer can be stressful.
What do you do with them so they don’t veg out in front of the “Boob Tube” all day?
What do you fix so they don’t eat junk food all day?
And […]

I don’t quite understand this New York Times article.
Women seem to be leaving the workforce in droves. They say it’s the bad economy. Don’t bad economies force more women to work who’d otherwise stay home?
Here’s their explanation:
After moving into virtually every occupation, women are being afflicted on a large scale by the same troubles as […]

Here’s how one work at home mom is coping with the rising gas prices… increased coupon use among other things. How about you?
From KCCI Des Moines
Nora:  I am a work-at-home mom, my husband is a trucker (he drives for one of the major trucking companies so he does not have to pay for the fuel)…….yes, […]

No, not the Mel Gibson movie this time. This is an article about women who are entrepreneurs by a business start up consulting firm. It’s a bit of a sales pitch towards the end but had some good information on “Mompreneur” trends.
Here’s a quote they relay from the Small Business Administration that gives you the […]

From Dane’s Blog
Vancouver Sun:
What does a mother do if she wants to stay home with her children as much as possible, but continue working the hours that accommodate those needs?
She could seek out an enlightened employer who allows her to work from her home office. Or at least find one that provides flexible hours.
Or, as […]

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 […]