Thursday, September 9th, 2010

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  • “Feisty, Frugal, & Fabulous” Mom turns hobby blog into biz


    Tenille Lafontaine, creator of Feisty, Frugal, & Fabulous began blogging two years ago because she wanted to get free stuff. Now she has a business that won't make her a millionaire, she says, but does give her enough money to pay for the family vacation or buy new furniture. She also gets to keep the toys, clothes, and other products she reviews, and go on free trips to places like Cancun and Los Angeles.

    "I see it as my part-time job, but it's really 24/7 because I'm always on email or testing products, which takes time," she says, "or taking pictures of the kids with the products."

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    [ Read More ] • [ 8 Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 8/03/10 ]
  • Time Management and Why You Need To Stop Stealing


    Natalie Sisson, blogger and founder of WomanzWorld, talks about time management and the importance of taking responsibility for your actions — or inactions. Do you really not have enough time to do what you want? Or, do you just not want to do it in the first place? Natalie gives three simple strategies for achieving more with the time you have.

    [ Read More ] • [ 5 Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 7/26/10 ]
  • The Accidental Entrepreneur


    Robyn Land wanted to be an Environmental Educator when she grew up. Instead, she became an entrepreneur, and has been running a successful yoga business since 2006.

    [ Read More ] • [ 2 Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 7/12/10 ]
  • From Bay Street to Beach Street: creating the life she wants


    A corporate worker in Toronto, Canada, became an entrepreneur so she could build the life she wanted: being her own boss and taking business trips to the Caribbean.

    [ Read More ] • [ 2 Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 7/05/10 ]
  • Grow your business! – BC program matches owners with mentors


    So, you’ve got your business up and running. Maybe things are chugging along very nicely. Maybe you’re struggling. Whichever the case, as a new-ish business owner (in business for one to three years) you may find that you have a lot of questions, or you have ideas you’d like to bounce off someone with more experience, or maybe, just maybe, you’re wondering how to take your business to a higher level.

    [ Read More ] • [ 5 Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 6/24/10 ]
  • Success through mentorship: a personal story


    Ever since I started my journey as an entrepreneur, the one thing I have heard over and over again is that you need to surround yourself with people that you most admire, the people that have reached the goals that you are currently looking to achieve, have cleared the hurdles standing before you and the ones that never stop advancing their reach, knowledge and expertise.

    [ Read More ] • [ 2 Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 6/14/10 ]
  • Social Entrepreneurship: the business of charity


    Catherine Van Alstine is business-savvy and socially-minded. A senior partner of the executive recruiting firm Odgers Berndtson, she has found a way to use her 25+ years of experience to benefit charity.

    [ Read More ] • [ 1 Comment ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 6/07/10 ]
  • Mompreneurs Navigate the New Economic Highway


    With big business failing all around us, the world needs entrepreneurs, however a recent study done by Inc. magazine and National Business Incubator Association revealed 80% of new businesses fail within the first five years. Throw tough economic times into the mix, and how will new mom-businesses ever survive?

    [ Read More ] • [ 1 Comment ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 5/31/10 ]
  • Frugal student writes book, becomes mompreneur


    Sarah Deveau, owner of Cater Tot Consignment, is an expert at being frugal which, combined with her entrepreneurial spirit, lead to her writing her first book, Sink or Swim: Get Your Degree Without Drowning in Debt, while in university.

    [ Read More ] • [ No Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 5/25/10 ]
  • A Tale of Two Mompreneurs


    Entrepreneurship was something Camilla Havlik-Patten was lucky enough to have been born into. Her father started a machine tool company years ago and she was introduced to the business – Carmen Roberts Watkins, on the other hand, had no family figure to guide her way into entrepreneurship. She had the security of a corporate job, and a background in financial services and business, but no experience starting an entrepreneurial venture.

    [ Read More ] • [ 1 Comment ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 5/17/10 ]
  • Mompreneur opened store to spend more time with kids


    Sarah Deveau, owner of Cater Tot Consignment and mother of three, had her first child in 2005. “I knew right away I didn’t want to go back to a full-time career,” she says. What she really wanted was a career on her own terms: something that would allow her flexibility to spend time with her children and earn an income.

    [ Read More ] • [ 2 Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 5/10/10 ]
  • Reinventing Success – Family First


    Deborah Gillam-Harry remembers the day she decided it was time to make a change. She was sitting in the living room with her pre-schooler. He was playing with his toy cars and she was working on her computer. An hour had gone by and they hadn’t spoken a word to each other.

    [ Read More ] • [ No Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 5/03/10 ]
  • Transitioning to Self-Employment


    Liz Doyle-Harmer interviews two women who took different approaches to starting their own businesses: Mompreneur Veronika Roux-Vlachova and accountant Cheryl Mont.

    [ Read More ] • [ No Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 5/03/10 ]
  • Making the change to Self-Employment


    One of the most difficult things in life can be recognizing that the career path you’re following – the one you spent years working on — is not in alignment with your current passion or life-goals. Michele Partridge and Chen Lizra are two women who made the change.

    [ Read More ] • [ No Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 4/06/10 ]
  • Fashionably Business Minded


    “Good-looking, well-fitting clothes can help women feel beautiful and empowered,” says Malene Grotrian. She and her business partner, Jenna Fortin, own Malene Grotrian Design, a company that creates fashionable clothes for women.

    [ Read More ] • [ 3 Comments ] • [ Filed under Business ] • [ 4/05/10 ]
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