So you're a mom who wants to start her own business? Girl, I have some advice for you. Mompreneurs, aka entrepreneurial mamas, are on the rise and crushing the game. The days of having to choose between a career and family are over. You can have both. But balancing business and babies definitely isn't easy. Between feedings, diaper changes, nap schedules, homework, … [Read more...]
5 Habits Every Mompreneur Needs
Being a working mom has been challenging forever. Today, it is impossible. My pessimism makes me believe that we may never recover, permanently pulled apart by both our babies and the unjust expectations of the businesses that pay our salaries. How do we choose? My optimism encourages me and helps me see that perhaps the toll of this pandemic has finally brought light to an … [Read more...]
Mompreneur Marketing Tips for Fierce Females Wanting to Grow Their Businesses
If you’re a mompreneur and a fierce female you may want to grow your business this year. To do that, optimizing your marketing for results is crucial. You can’t hope and dream a flourishing business into existence. You must maximize your marketing for increased ROI (return-on-investment)! Understanding how to make the most of your marketing initiatives is critical for … [Read more...]
Wife, Mother, Entrepreneur? 6 Tips to Help You Get Started in Business
You have a dream of starting your own business, but, what if you want to start a business but you're a mother? Can you still do it? YES! Yes, you can! According to the National Association of Women Business Owners, there are 11 million women-owned businesses in the U.S. generating trillions of dollars worth of sales. Of those millions of women-owned businesses, 1 in 3 are … [Read more...]
3 Accounting Tools Every Mompreneur Needs to Know
As a mompreneur, your time is scarce. Between establishing sales, feeding hungry children, creating new products, and convincing your kids to do their homework, accounting is probably the farthest thing from your mind. The last thing you want to do is spend hours of your day hunched over a cluttered, Cheerios-littered desk balancing the books, right? Or maybe you think … [Read more...]
The Power of Moms = Wow
Post by Frances Cole Jones, contributing Women On Business writer I get frequent emails from Moms who have been out of the workforce for a while and consequently have concerns about their ability to re-enter the fray. I also hear from Moms who are working, but have concerns they still don’t have the “right” skill set. Having no kids of my own, I’ve been able to give some … [Read more...]
Winning at the New Mommy Track – The rise of the Mompreneur Part I
Guest post by Maribeth Kuzmeski (learn more about Maribeth at the end of this post) As the recession drags on and the unemployment rate steadily increases, more and more families are feeling the pinch. And that means moms who once spent their days running a household, reading stories, and supervising art projects are donning their entrepreneurial hats to fill the family … [Read more...]