Archive for December 7th, 2007

  • This Mompreneur Tweaks Words, Not Noses

    The Gazette:
    Worried that your participles are dangling or your infinitives might be split?
    The Coralville woman behind TweakMyWords.com, Belinda Bombei, can come to the rescue.
    She won’t write a paper for you, but for $7 a page, she’ll eliminate structure, grammatical, spelling and clarity issues in academic or professional papers in as little as 12 hours. The […]

  • She’s Well Served By Cookies

    The Dallas Morning News:
    Last May, McKinney cookie maker Mary Beth Schad entered the Martha Stewart Living “Dreamers Into Doers” contest, which was looking for women who have turned their hobbies into careers.
    She never thought that she might win.
    “I never enter contests, but a friend urged me to enter,” said Ms. Schad, owner of Ellie & […]

  • Mom Starts Home Stationary Business

    The Community Press:
    When Kim Dietrich Elam decided to give up her job as a traffic engineer two years ago to be a stay-at-home mom, she never envisioned it leading to a new career in the creative stationery business.
    Like many mothers at home with a new child, Elam snapped pictures of her daughter all the time.
    She […]

  • Gigi Invention Blanketing The Market

    Michigan Local & Small Business News:
    Heather Gaston, a native of Flushing, has joined the growing ranks of the momprenueurs, women who have created something to make their lives as moms easier and turned the creation into a business.
    Gaston’s creation? A small blanket, roughly the size of a placemat, made of “stylish and divine fabric” […]