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Mompreneur
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5 Tips for Aspiring Mom Entrepreneurs to Turn Your Startup Dreams Into Reality
As a mom, your schedule tends to center around your kids more often than not. From school drop-offs and pickups to ballet recitals and lacrosse practices to checking homework and cooking dinner, it can feel...
What Being a Mom and an Entrepreneur Has Taught Me
Motherhood and entrepreneurship have been a roller coaster of ups and downs. Being a mom has been the greatest asset in helping me grow as an entrepreneur. It has taught me to have grace for...
How This Mom’s Ever-Growing Laundry Pile Inspired a Business
Any parent of young children can relate to the constant struggle of staying on top of laundry. Angelyn Myers, founder of My "Buddy" Towel, is no different. The mom of six was especially frustrated when...
How This Entrepreneur Started a Business to Help New Parents
Nicole Johnson is the president and owner of The Baby Sleep Site, a resource for new parents who are trying to help their babies, toddlers and preschoolers sleep better. The company provides assistance with issues...
How to Build a Compelling Narrative for Your Startup
The following is excerpted from "Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups" by Evan Burfield with J.D. Harrison with permission of Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright...
StartupNation Celebrates Mompreneurs: Today is Your Day!
While we honor moms at StartupNation every day, today's episode of StartupNation Radio pays tribute to mompreneurs (those are moms who are also entrepreneurs). Join Jeff Sloan and his three guests to learn how you...
Leading Moms in Business: What a collective!
I was planning on a different topic for this week, and then I had a change of heart. This week marked the beginning of the 3rd annual StartUpNation Leading Moms in Biz Competition. Yes, I...
To Automate this Season or Not?
As always, I never sugar coat my blog posts, so I am not going to start today. I promised a backstage pass to my adventure, and that is what you get all the time. Not...
5 Ways to Lighten Holiday Season Stress
December is here. Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday are all behind us. My inbox is jammed with sales and specials from Vista Print to Saks Fifth Avenue and everything in between. ...
The Business of MOM and Entrepreneur
This week an article on CNN Money about Jack Dorsey caught my eye, and I could not help but to be fascinated with it. Jack Dorsey, Twitter Co-founder and CEO of Square, works TWO 8-hour...
Growing A Biz & Kids, Part 1
A few weeks ago, I wrote about moms and dads everywhere being ecstatic over Back to School. For mom and dad business owners, Back to School signifies schedule, routine, and hopefully, high productivity. However, Back...
AVOID a fast relationship with my inbox!
Last week I attended a business professionals networking event in my hometown. The event was extremely well attended and actually turned out to be a lot of fun (I am not saying this just because...
Sleep = Productivity
Over the last few weeks on my own blog, I have covered topics ranging from stress busters to back to school to linked in for moms to past mishaps. It has been a busy few...
Analytics & Quantity v. Quality
For better or worse, we live in a world full of numbers discussion. No matter where you go, someone is chatting about exact quantities and numbers. How many calories is that sandwich? How many RPM's...
Small Business surprise in my week away
Hi there StartUpNation! I am back after one final tribute to summer last week. Where I live, school is back in session as of today, and I am glued to my desk and ready to...
Where can I find ME time?
Last week, I wrote about ME time for the start-up biz person. Do you take it? Do you avoid it? Do you think that you do not have the time to take it? You get the...
You simply cannot afford to NOT take “ME” time
This week, a fellow mompreneur tweeted me that I need to write a post on how mom entrepreneurs strategically find time for pampering (as in pedicures, facials, and some would say - exercise). As I am...
Getting Engaged…on Twitter
You have signed up for Twitter, learned about Twitter Etiquette here from me, and NOW WHAT? You are an emerging brand trying to establish yourself. You know that Social Media, namely Twitter, plays a role...
Get Behind Social Media, Don’t Let it Get Behind YOU!
Summer has definitely settled in.....Everyone is busy enjoying some fun in the sun, and I think only in the mood for short and to the point posts. In light of that combined with the universal...
Building Brand Loyalty
A few months ago, I wrote a post here at StartUpNation on what every mom/entrepreneur should have in her bag of tricks. This was a fun post for me to write because I carry a...