Win $10,000 from Martha Stewart

Posted May 13th, 2008 by Susan Gunelius in Female Entrepreneurs

Martha Stewart’s “Dreamers into Doers” contest is on for the second year in a row. If you turned a hobby into a business or nonprofit, then you could win $10,000, a vacation at a Wyndham Resort and a trip to New York City to appear on the “Martha Stewart Show”. Ten finalists will also get $1,000 each as well as a 1-week vacation to Puerto Rico.

All you have to do to enter is write a 250-word essay describing how you turned a hobby into a career, and submit your entry by July 11, 2008.

You can get all the details by following the link to the Martha Stewart contest page. You can enter or nominate a friend through the contest web page.

Good luck!

2 Responses to “Win $10,000 from Martha Stewart”

Ardelle Robinson on July 9, 2008 10:03 am
Ever since I got my first camera at age 8, I have been hooked on photography. Now at 59, I find myself the proud owner of designs by vivienne, a home-based business using (my original) photography on embossed-bordered note cards, and selling prints that allow me to share what i capture through my lens, with others. The larger collection includes work from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii and Kenya. By presenting the beauty of a variety of flowers, the face of a woman who makes $5 a day at a bead factory or a butterfly starring into the lens, I bring to others what I see when I raise my camera to my eye.

Customers are so captivated by the work, they often make their card purchases, remove the envelopes and frame the cards, to add special touches to their own homes.

I never thought I would be an entrepreneur, a business owner. But as I ventured out into the real world, I realized that there is actually nothing else I would rather be doing in the whole wide world.

My goal is to exhibit my work on larger scales than it has been, expand my customer base and distribution points and actually be known as the photographer that I know I am inside!
Susan Gunelius on July 9, 2008 10:06 am
What an inspirational story, Ardelle. I hope you entered the contest!