Archive for the 'Mompreneurs' Category

I was surfing the net the other day and found Darlene Hull’s huge manual helping home based businesses improve their marketing. It’s 116 free or low cost marketing methods. Half are offline and half are online. Even Dad’s can use these tools for promoting any product, service, or business opportunity. I believe she’s right when [...]

Carrie Lukas attributes it in part to telecommunting and being able to work at home. She puts it this way… According to the nonprofit research institute Catalyst, just eight Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs, and women account for just 5.2 percent of those companies’ top earners. A Harvard Business Review survey of midcareer women [...]

Rhea is a home schoo mom who started hosting educational events. She has a teleseminar to talk about the business. Here’s the press release I received. Creating events such as conferences not only helps lots of people by bringing them inspiration, education and motivation but they can also be very profitable if you do them [...]

Drs. Jeffrey Robinson, Sammie Robinson, and Laquita Blockson have set out on what promises to be a ground breaking study of African American Women Entrepreneurs. A working paper is available. Here’s its description. The current literature on minority entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial growth all speak little to the unique experiences and contributions of African-American [...]

As seen on Shanna’s Work At Home Mom Blog on MySpace So I found this little article in some oddball paper that ends up on my driveway every Wed. and I go looking through it for jobs. I find an articla that makes me raise one eyebrow, just a little. I decided to give the [...]

Start Up Journal is bemoaning the glut of Silicon Valley Web startups that expect to give away free information or sponsor a free community and make money from advertising. Most are expected to fail. But for the home business crowd I think their comments need some tweaking. Start Up Journal is part of the Wall [...]

As time allows, I’ve been reading this book, Success Built To Last. Based on interviews with many successful people who are successful in different ways (Richard Branson to Mother Theresa to Nelson Mandela or Bono for example) it tries to distill the essence of success. Hopefully you’ll find a profile you like but overall the [...]

This isn’t about home business per se, but some of the mompreneurs I know from this blog should find this event worth checking out.It’s the Women’s Marketing Telesummit and it will focus on low cost marketing methods to boost revenues. Given the relatively low cost of approximately $140US for events over three days, it seems [...]

Linda was commenting about my Rent A Coder post. She does her rent a coder work at night and – during the day – is building a family based business primarily devoted to cleaning carpets with a unique process that’s uniquely safe to children, pets, and the environment yet extremely effective for getting up even [...]

People who’d LIKE to consult with an interior designer often don’t because of the cost. Working from home allows Interior Designer Mary Bokovoy to keep her prices affordable according to the Tigard Times…  “I like to first see what people can do with what they already have. Sometimes it’s just a matter of rearranging things [...]