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My Royal Heinie® Introduces New Diaper Purses And Accessories To Make Diaper Duty Easier
November 8, 2008 by Herb Stalk · Leave a Comment
My Royal Heinie®, the line of mom-invented diaper purses and accessories featuring a patent-pending Smart Wipes Dispenser™, introduces new styles - the Daypack and the Wallet - to improve the way diaper duty is done.
My Royal Heinie is a collection of small, compact diapering accessories designed to keep everything you need to change your baby at your fingertips. All products feature the company’s patent-pending, built-in Smart Wipes Dispenser™ so baby wipes can be loaded and pulled directly from the front of the bag, making diaper changing faster, easier, smarter. This clever invention eliminates the need to carry baby wipes in a separate case or to purchase travel wipes, reducing cost, waste and time.The new Daypack diaper “purse” is a redesign of the original with upgraded features. Measuring just 9” w x 6” h, the Daypack is small in size but big in convenience, constructed to hold everything you need for a day’s outing. The cleverly designed pockets and compartments accommodate up to six diapers, a large stack of wipes, cell phone, keys and other personal items. Added stroller straps make it easy to hang on the stroller, and all bags come with a matching changing pad.
Screenshot from My Royal Heinie®.
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Generation Y Entrepreneur Shares The Challenge Of Balancing Motherhood With Operating A Home-Based Business With Her Husband
November 8, 2008 by Herb Stalk · Leave a Comment
At 26, Maisie Knowles has gained more experience and learned more about the challenges a businesswoman encounters than many female entrepreneurs who are a generation older.
When most of her friends were starting college, the Colorado Springs native was traveling the world and organizing mission trips for a humanitarian aid organization. When many of her peers were still in their first professional job, Knowles was in a management position at an advertising agency. Now, the new mom can give other Generation Y professional woman how to juggle motherhood with serving as an entrepreneur of a home-based business.
With her husband, Luke Knowles, Maisie co-founded FreeShipping.org, a one-stop destination for consumers to find online retailers that offer free shipping deals. Before launching the site, the couple started Kinoli, an interactive design company. Maisie left a full-time office job to help get the company off the ground and Luke joined her full time a year later. They debuted FreeShipping.org in December 2007.
“I felt under appreciated working for someone else, and Luke and I rarely saw each other, so we were excited to start our own company,” said Maisie, who earned a communication degree from the University of Colorado. “At the same time, it was an uneasy feeling. We knew we had enough work to keep us busy and pay the bills for a couple months, but after that it was uncertain.
“There is a risk you have to take because if you don’t take the leap and devote the time to build your business, you’re not going to succeed for the long-term,” she added. “It’s all about building relationships, and through those relationships you hope that your business grows through referrals.”
The Knowles lives changed even more when Maisie became pregnant with their first child, Isabelle, who was born in January 2008. She found that working from a home office with her husband proved helpful as the delivery date neared.
“I have a friend who worked up to the day she gave birth. Fortunately, I had more time to prepare,” Maisie said. “I stopped working for three weeks before Isabelle was due, and I took a 10-week maternity leave. I would not have had that flexibility if I worked a traditional office job. I was able keep up with e-mails and general administrative tasks, and also get the rest I needed to be physically and mentally ready for Isabelle’s birth.”
Working together from a home office saves Luke and Maisie time, money (since they do not have a commute) and the aggravation of being stuck in traffic. They also do not need to pay for child care and have more family time.
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S.A. Mom Promoting Special Diet For Autistic Kids
November 6, 2008 by Herb Stalk · Leave a Comment
There’s a growing national movement among parents of autistic children.
Many believe that feeding their children a special diet can improve their behavior and social problems. A San Antonio mother is using her home-based business to help others follow this path.
After-school reunions are a lot more interactive than they used to be at the Holmbo household, and Letty Holmbo believes it has a lot to do with the special diet she feeds her children.Foregoing regular flours and cereals and milk products, Holmbo has instituted a gluten-free, casein-free diet in her house. That means her recipes don’t include certain plant and milk proteins. The theory is children with autism are missing an enzyme that breaks up these proteins, and they end up circulating in the blood, affected the brain.
Within weeks, she saw changes in 4-year-old Isabella and 2-year-old Ashton. It’s the food, she believes, that’s sparking the light in their eyes.
“So when I saw how easy it can be for families to implement, I just felt the need to shout out as loud as I could and help coach families to make this happen,” Holmbo said.
So Holmbo, a registered dietician, expanded her home-based consulting company to include gluten-free, casein-free cooking. She calls it “Balanced Living,” and her services include pantry makeovers, grocery story tours, group classes and any other kind of coaching to help other parents give this method a try.
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Beginner Work At Home Moms Need Your Leadership
November 6, 2008 by Herb Stalk · Leave a Comment
As a dynamic entrepreneur, business coach and mother, Kim DeYoung is dedicated to supporting mom entrepreneurs. With that in mind she just released her most recent article in a series of articles in the resource section of her website. The article, “Beginner Work at Home Moms Need Your Leadership” is available for immediate download at http://Metromom.com/Resources.
Kim wrote this article because beginner work at home moms benefit greatly by observing and connecting with women that exhibit leadership both as moms and as entrepreneurs. Women get to know themselves and grow in relationship to others. That’s why women tend to lead—not by words alone—but through example and by modeling what they learn.
At some point in their lives women are all leaders, especially in the minds of their children. The traits they exhibit in a home-based business should align with the ones they want their children to value. Kim DeYoung, a mother of three, explain in the article, “When our kids have the opportunity to see for themselves what mommy believes in and is doing, what’s working and not, and how she deals with it and moves on and grows…that makes a tremendous impact.”
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Jennifer Fiander: eBay Canada’s Mompreneur
November 5, 2008 by Herb Stalk · Leave a Comment
Hampton resident Jennifer Fiander has been crowned eBay Canada’s Mompreneur of the Year for using the power of the Internet to sell her journals for brides, grooms, mothers, daughters, fathers and sons.“It’s nice to get the recognition because I work so hard on the company,” she said in an interview.
Fiander began her company Lil’ Angel Gifts eight years ago after the birth of her special needs son, Cameron. Prompted by her own mother’s constant questions on how to care for Cameron, who has Angelman syndrome, she developed an instruction manual for babies.
That instruction manual grew into a whole line of journals, note cards and other products for brides, grooms and family members, which she began selling on eBay (http: //stores.ebay.com/Lil-Angel-Gifts) and her own website www.lilangelgifts.com. Today, the mother of three ships her products around the world.
Fiander’s son was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome - caused by a deletion of the 15th chromosome - when he was an infant. In his case, the disorder prevents him from walking, using his hands, or communicating verbally, and disrupts his sleep patterns.
After getting rave reviews from relatives about her instruction manual for babies, Fiander put together another manual - Organizing Your Child’s Special Needs. When they began selling like hotcakes on eBay, Fiander knew she had struck on a successful product idea and began developing her ideas into 18 different wedding party journals, which today are her biggest selling items.
Logo from Lil’ Angel Gifts.
