Internet Moms: Getting The Best Of Both Worlds

CNN.com:

Jenni Hunt is an attractive, talented and ambitious professional from Portland, Oregon. She runs her own Internet business, selling on online auction site eBay and advising others how to navigate the site to gain maximum profits.

Jenni, 36, is also a full-time mother who home-schools her kids.

Superwoman? Perhaps. But Jenni is one of an increasing number of stay-at-home moms who are using the Internet to have it all.

Jenni was a high-tech Silicon Valley marketing executive when, in 1999, she gave up work to look after her baby boy. She had her second child in 2002, and it was then that she discovered eBay.

“I had bought a stroller for $15 and a couple of months later realized it wasn’t fitting my needs, so I decided to sell it on eBay,” she told CNN. “I made over $100! I was hooked.”

Jenni, a self-confessed bargain-hunter, quickly realized that she could use the Internet to plump up her family’s finances.

“We couldn’t survive on my husband’s income, so it was necessary for me to contribute somehow,” she said. “I just couldn’t bring myself to leave my children — and I knew I had skills that would allow me to freelance or create my own business.”