Crib Sheet #46: Zola’s Beth Remmes.

Beth Remmes brings an entirely new meaning to the term Earth Mother.  Inspired by Mother Nature herself, she is the green pied piper (not to be mistaken with the Green Giant) inspiring others and making change in many, many ways.  Make sure to watch her YouTube video, below.

What business did you start up?

Zola was set up as a company in July of 2007, and it went online in March 2008.

What motivated you to do it?

I have always been interested with environmental issues, but what finally led me to take action was Read more

3 Simple Tricks to Organizing Yourself.

I am an extremely organized person.  In my head.  To you, my desk might look like a bomb hit it.  But I know where everything is, where everything needs to be, and what each item is doing in its place.  Even so, I’m constantly reading up on tips to stay organized…reading books about getting organized…watching Oprah’s Peter Walsh about getting organized…and organizing notes on organized organization in my organizationally organized organization of an office.

To help you stay much better organized than even me (whose personal slogan could be “Organized Beyond Organization”), here are 3 useful tools: Read more

Crib Sheet #45: Plum Organics’ Gigi Lee Chang.

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Finally, a momtrepreneur who talks about the challenge of closing up shop at day’s end, an all-too-common issue among us.  Doesn’t Gigi’s business idea make you want to have a baby all over again just so that you can try the stuff out?

(The question is rhetorical, people).

What business did you start up?

I started Plum Organics, an organic baby and toddler food company.

What motivated you to do it?

My son was very interested in food from the very start.  I think it was because we were giving him homemade baby food from scratch.  When I noticed this, I started noticing how many babies are not interested in food at all and this sparked questions in me.  Upon further research, I found out that food preferences are formed by the age of two.  Read more

Teleseminar #1: Terri Fry Brukhartz on Strategizing

Introducing the first teleseminar in the new Teleseminar Series!  How does it work?  You call in, listen and learn.  All you need is a phone and one available ear.

Building Your Business From the Inside Out: Strategies For Making Your Business Work in Concert With Your Life with Terri Fry Brukhartz

Wednesday, March 24
10:30 CST/11:30 EST.
It’s free. I mean it.
You won’t want to miss it.

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3 Simple Tricks to Remembering.

I don’t remember anything.  Having the worst memory in the world, I don’t even bother looking sorry anymore when I forget someone, or something.  Didn’t call that client back yesterday?  Forget to pick up the kids?  Blame my memory, not me.

(Note: if I have met you twice before at a conference or a Meetup and my eyes give away the fact that I can’t remember you, please know that it’s not me.  It’s my memory.  I loved meeting you the first and second time.  Honestly.)

To help feeble minds cobble together the thousand things that momtrepreneurs must do every day, here are 3 useful tools: Read more