Archive for May, 2008

Many mom-owned businesses exist because the woman was looking to work from home and care for family. The Blue Top Hat is different. This is a business run by a mother and her daughter.
Their business idea came about when they were trying to figure out a gift to give one of their best [...]

Spokane Journal of Business:
Sarah Bishop named her business, Moxie Nannies Inc., after the type of person she thinks makes a good nanny: energetic, determined, and knowledgeable.
Experienced as both a nanny and a parent, Bishop says she knows how hard it is for parents to find a person who’s qualified to come into their home and [...]

syracuse.com:
Some warm, rainy night when you’re driving along Route 321 in Camillus you might notice a woman and her young children with flashlights and headlamps on, walking the grounds at the Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery.
Don’t worry, they’ve got permission from hatchery officials.
It’s Sara Holden and her kids looking for night crawlers.
The Holdens live right [...]

Alaska Star:
Traffic into the store is steady, and the mood is happy, most of the time. Things can change at the whim of the real boss, Cora, the 22-month-old daughter of Alexis Kallen.
Kallen brings Cora to work with her most days and juggles business and mommy-hood as best she can.
Cora is potty training, so everything [...]

The Morning News:
Ashley Leis is proof that necessity is the mother of invention.
The former mortgage lender invested about $50,000 to open an hourly drop-off daycare service out of frustration.
She decided to be a stay-at-home mom when she had her daughter four years ago but soon found that at-home life was a tough row to hoe.
“(Staying [...]

It’s not often we hear about people taking a moment for tea. Karen Hattaway still does. She’s even built a business around it. Sweet Necessi-Teas is an online boutique that offers wonderful little tea treasures such as aprons, cup/saucer totes, clothing, and other accessories that can be enjoyed.
A mother and wife, Karen [...]

WBNS 10TV:
Stay-at-home mom Dana Davis found a recipe for success in her kitchen — not on the stovetop, but on her laptop.
Davis created a Web site to help families find dining-out deals from restaurants, 10TV’s Tracy Townsend reported.
At KidsMealDeals.com, visitors enter a ZIP code, the day of the week and the number of miles they [...]

Democrat and Chronicle.com:
Everyone loves a good deal. Francine Jones ‘06 recognizes this, and bases her business around providing the best bargains for all of her customers. FAB Products (Francine’s At-home Business), created in May 2005, offers cost-effective gifts for all occasions.
“I saw a vision of how as a flea market and catalog shopper I always [...]

PR.com:
In November 2007 just before her new son was born, Tia Peterson, soon to be a new single mother, made the decision that she would stay home to raise her son. She began freelancing as a virtual assistant and has never looked back. Instead, she has moved on to form a virtual assistance firm called [...]

With her real child, Shani also came up with her own brain child. It didn’t have a business name as of yet. Putting together things she liked about different slings she created her own fashionable pouch style sling that she soon found other parents wanted too.
This simple creation that fit her own needs [...]