Archive for the 'Networking' Category

The Boston Globe:
As Gloucester native Ann Andrew recalls, it didn’t take much for her to dream up Mommies Who Shop, the series of suburban shopping events and “play dates” for mothers that she launched two years ago. A former director of merchandising at the now-defunct Sigrid Olsen who’d left her job in 2004 to become [...]

The Wall Street Journal:
Popular toys, such as cellphones and briefcases, encourage them to mimic busy adults. Now, a new product promises to turn them into little networkers: The baby business card.
A colleague recently alerted me to this new item for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. I find these baby business cards both endearing and a little [...]

Raleigh News:
Some home based businesses in the Triangle are actually growing in this economy and moms groups may be the secret.
Forget the golf course for business deals, these days the hottest way to network and improve your bottom line is to join a moms club.
“It’s a great group of women,” said Heather Baxt, [...]

pegasusnews.com:
Last week a group of area mom entrepreneurs met up at Chelsea’s Tea Room in South Arlington. Use of the tea room and lunch was provided courtesy of another mom entrepreneur Jackie Andrews. Each woman in the group is a mom business owner, and all wear various hats according to job requirements (pun intended). Some [...]

canada.com:
Four local mompreneurs juggle motherhood and flexible careers to find work-life balance
The phrase work-life balance is bandied about a lot, especially as it relates to women returning to careers after having kids.
Truth is, between long hours at the office, preparing meals for little ones, keeping house and everything else involved in living life, the act [...]

The Wall Street Journal:
Can mommy bloggers become mommy tweeters?
A new microblogging site targeting moms and modeled after Twitter launched Friday. Rachael Herrscher, a 31-year-old mother of three, has added the abbreviated commenting feature to her site Today’s Mama.
Ms. Herrscher is not the first to rip off the idea of Twitter. The more popular the [...]

MiamiHerald.com:
Think you’re on the verge of the next great invention? Marla Brock had that feeling, too.
Brock, a Miami mom and lawyer, founded a successful website for family travel. She now plans to share tips with other innovative moms and dads at a new program to support parent entrepreneurs called MOMentum.
”The idea is to create a [...]

Highlands Ranch:
A unique group has banded together to support and assist each other. Mommy Meeting is an organization that allows mom-owned businesses to benefit from networking meetings, workshops, retreats and other gatherings such as the Momporium Event scheduled for Saturday, March 28 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Aspen Grove Shopping Center.
Originally, Mommy [...]

Deseret News:
In the background, you can hear a little voice shouting for attention: “Mom, turn on my music!”
“Can you hold on a second?” asks Kelly King Anderson.
There’s a pause in conversation as she sets down the phone and asks her daughter to be patient while she finishes talking to a reporter. Seconds later, Anderson is [...]

Bellview Reporter.com:
A new networking organization on the Eastside proves once again that women mean business.

Eastside Women In Business, a networking community for professional like-minded women to promote and grow their business, exchange leads, share ideas, build relationships, explore opportunities and celebrate camaraderie, hosts monthly lunch networking meetings and mixers.
The organization is based on the idea [...]