Mompreneur

"Mompreneur" is a relatively new term describing a woman entrepreneur who is also a mom. Her business could be online, offline, or both.

She is a woman who has chosen to stay at home rather than to take a job outside of the home as an employee. She has chosen motherhood and entrepreneurship over delegating the raising of her children to a baby sitter or day care center. She chooses to be a home business mom rather than work as an employee outside of her home.

For most women, it is a natural desire to stay home and care for home, hubby and children but is not always economically feasible. In this day and age it is increasingly difficult to live on a one income budget. As well, many women feel the need to be challenged intellectually and require an additional outlet for expressing their creativity and passions. A home based business fills the bill. Find out what these stay at home mompreneurs are doing and how you can be successful too.

Increasingly, women are finding satisfaction in starting their own home based business as a mompreneur enabling them to choose family and home life as their top priority and yet still contribute financially to the family income. Perhaps also, in order to be an encouraging helpmeet to her husband, the work from home mom chooses to apply her skills to entrepreneurship to help her husband realize his full potential. Family goals and dreams are realized in a productive, co-operative home environment where everyone is involved; Sometimes termed familypreneurship.

Business moms who work from home enjoy the flexibility that working women or entrepreneurs who own businesses outside the home simply do not have. They are available during those precious early years to watch baby take his first steps or utter his first word. Stay at home moms are free to go on family outings, school trips, hockey games, and attend special events.

There are many options for the woman who is contemplating starting their own home based business. Some women have invented their own products, some turn their artistic creations to profits like paintings or ceramics. There are home based moms involved in multi-level marketing (MLM) companies like Avon or Mary Kay. There are business women selling items on Ebay. Some work from home providing services such as bookkeeping, hair dressing, or sewing.