Archive for March 29th, 2007

MSNBC:
More stay-at-home moms are redirecting their creativity, experience and education into starting businesses on the side. Whether your goals are as simple as supplementing the family’s income or as lofty as building a company that could eventually be worth millions, starting part-time is a great way to test the business waters.
But between helping the kids [...]

PRBuzz:
Rana Burr is no ordinary mom. When her son, Montana was diagnosed with autism at the age of 6, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
“I didn’t want to settle for the services that insurance covered or that the school district provided,� she says. “I am trained in music therapy and I know [...]

The Dallas Morning News:
DaLonna Rimsky had a stroke of business inspiration while trying to help her children cope with their father’s deployment overseas.
Ms. Rimsky turned photos of her husband, Michael, into coloring book pages for Colin, now 6, and Paige, 3, and found the activity helped ease their loneliness.
She’s hoping to help families both [...]

USA Today:
Julie Aigner-Clark, founder of the children’s educational video company, is appearing this week at Microsoft’s second annual Small Business Summit.
She’s also one of 16 millionaire “mompreneurs” — mothers who launched companies — who are the subject of a new edition of Secrets of Millionaire Moms, to be published tomorrow.
Aigner-Clark shot her first video in [...]

Canada.com:
Many mothers have the same “mompreneur” fantasy. It usually hits them after countless days spent changing diapers and nursing hungry babies.
It’s rarely that easy, but the dream is compelling enough that it often makes ambitious mothers want to jump on the mompreneur bandwagon. After all, how hard can it be?
The answer is really hard, even [...]

Women 2.0:
Women 2.0 invites you to submit your business idea on a paper napkin no larger than 7×7 inches. Put it down, mark it up, and propose to us your most innovative solution, an emerging technology, a way to save the world, a way to become rich! We want you to launch your new business [...]

AZCentral.com:
Valerie Peters, 43, is an 18-year resident of Ahwatukee. Peters was a metallurgical engineer for Honeywell when she had her second child. She went back to work for six weeks then quit to start a home business in August 1996 with one computer and one laser printer. She read a book on mailing list services [...]

Mompreneurs Online:
New and exciting work options seem to pop up all the time in today’s fast-paced cyber-world. Even so, certain fields have emerged as the most popular — and successful — online choices. Explore our hot picks to see if there’s something that fits your skills, talents or interests.
1. Coaching and Teaching
2. Communications/Information
3. Direct Sales
4. [...]

Pittsburgh Live:
Grocery shopping for Rene Lopez became magical after he moved Downtown. Lopez merely has to make up a shopping list, and the next day, his groceries are waiting at home for him after work, with the perishables in the fridge and freezer.
“I’m working all the time, and I’m just too busy. When I get [...]

eCommerce-Guide:
One day in the early 1990’s Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla. made herself a grilled- cheese sandwich. Then she gazed down at the brown skillet marks on the bread: “I saw a face looking up at me; it was the Virgin Mary staring back. I was in total shock,” she later told reporters. Diana held [...]