A Mompreneur.It’s a term and career path gaining popularity across the country. Search “mompreneur” online and you’ll find countless examples and listings of entrepreneural moms making a living right from her home—very likely with babies crying or little kids running around.
Mompreneurs Online is a resource and community for these ambitious women. The website features discussion boards, groups, and even a live chatroom! The website is currently trying to promote local groups for mompreneurs to get connected with others in similar geographic areas.
The Mompreneur is another resource—this site provides page after page of information and resources pertaining not only to doing business online, but also to parenting! There is a Mompreneur magazine sponsored by this website that regularly provides subscribers with resources, tips, the latest news, and builds the mompreneur network.
Skaskatoon CTV reported on March 30 about "Mom's Marketplace," which is a gathering of mompreneurs hosted by Mompreneur’s Magazine happening right now, with a contest for “Saskatoon's finest Mom-preneur.” The contest winner was just announced to be Celeste Bodnar who started a chocolate cake ball company called Sphere-liscious.Another event of similar nature will be happening soon in Ontario-- The Spring 2011 Vaughan Mompreneur Showcase is designed give mother/businessowners exposure to the public—over 2,000 people are anticipated to attend. Because many of these are startup businesses without a lot of financial assets, this event also an affordable opportunity for mompreneurs. In a March 28 York Region article, the Showcase was featured. The article explained that “booths at bigger shows can come with price tags around $1,000 or $1,500, the organizers of the Vaughan event are aiming to keep it affordable so spots at the local show cost either $185 or $250 depending on the package you choose.”
Canada seems to be the place for budding mompreneurs—“Calling All Mompreneurs,” a March 21st BCNews article, reported about workshops for mompreneurs being held on April 5 and 6 in British Columbia.
One of these workshops, called “Passionately You-Create the Life you Dream About” helps prospective mompreneurs determine if they have what it takes to succeed in business by looking at personality types, passions, abilities, careers goals and dreams. There will also be help on writing a mission statement and how to make their dreams a reality.
In another workshop, “Succeeding as a Mompreneur,” participants will learn some of the more technical sides of the business—such as technicalities of becoming a CEO and a full rundown of what it takes to run a business from home.These are just some of the many opportunities and assistance available for mompreneurs! If you take the time to seek it out, there is a whole community of others with similar interests who are perfectly willing and happy to help you out!
One more thing, for my male audience—“Dad-preneurs” exist out there too! And all of these resources I've talked about are just as applicable to you!
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Mompreneur Cartoon: Feisty, Frugal, and Fabulous
Mom's Marketplace Photo: CTV News
Magazine Image: Ordinary God Blog
You're posts are great, they cover topics related to business that I never would have thought but, but are a wealth of information! This Mompreneur post is full of great sources that work to answer any questions a hesitant mom would have before jumping into business. They are all, justified sources. It never seems as though you are tossing around sources just for the sake of having more sources. In this article especially, the way that you work through the material that you provide seems to follow the thought process that someone would have if you were to confront a mother about this on the side-walk, anticipating curiosity and encouraging exploration into this new business culture. It's great!!
ReplyDeleteYour use of link words is wonderful - not too long or short, and the relevant link is highlighted. My HTML professors would be proud of your good links!
ReplyDeleteRelevancy/ recentness is also good. My lone suggestion (for this article) would be to find some more American news sources on the topic - your CTV source is good, but readers can possibly take that to mean that your topic is a Canada (or other country) only thing, when it's not.
For future articles, do you know anything about streaming media, an how it compares to TV ad sales and DVD sales? It's viability in the marketplace, and how the future of physical media looks when faced with streaming.
This is an interesting look at online business - it's refreshing to see something that isn't all numbers, charts, and jargon, and give a more human face to everything.
I feel that your use of links and structure in your blogs has improved over time and that your words used for links are appropriate and good. The sources themselves seem very relevant and correctly placed. Your blogs always are very interesting and flow well. The order of your posts seem to flow in a very logical order and overall your blogs have improved nicely.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work and can't wait to see what you come up with next :D