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The Modern Mompreneur: How Ginny Scott Made Her Hobby Her Business
Recently my three-year-old son asked me the question I’ve been dreading ever since he learned to speak: “Where’s my baby book?” Oh no! I rummaged my drawers and computer files for the photos of his first year and started trying to put them in an album. Then I thought, “Wait …
Modern Mompreneur: Ingrid Carney Transforms a Tube Top Into a Must-Have for Moms
Women always ask Ingrid Carney how she came up with the idea for her product, the BellaBand, a simple-yet-ingenious elastic band that allows pregnant women to gracefully wear their favorite clothes as their bellies expand. Like so many creators before her, Ingrid says that necessity was the mother of her …
The Modern Mompreneur: How Do I Find My Clients?
When I first started my business I was a general life coach helping people with career issues. My first clients I coached for free and they were all people who knew me: a publicist, a colleague, a friend of a friend. After our free sessions were over some of them …
Modern Mompreneur: Karen Staitman of Good Fortunes Cookie Company Shares Her Recipe for Success
The average person would crack open a fortune cookie in hopes of finding good luck. But Karen Belasco Staitman likes to think bigger than thata lot bigger! Back in 1995, I was a party planner and I had made some gigantic fortune cookies for party invitations, she recalls. One day …
The Modern Mompreneur: Single Moms Transform A Luxury Baby Boutique into a 7-Figure Business
Five years ago, Nina Rioja and Samantha Winch took a big risk. As the recently divorced mothers of three toddlers between them, they had little time or money and desperately wanted jobs that would give them the flexibility they needed to look after their children. Samantha worked as a college …