Mama Coco founder Megan Skeath built her business from a real-life motherhood challenge and made a smart decision many founders overlook: protect the core product before expanding. Her story offers valuable lessons for women entrepreneurs about focus, intentional growth, and building a brand around a genuine problem.
Key Takeaways
Some of the best business ideas come from real-life frustrations founders understand deeply.
Megan Skeath built Mama Coco...
Learn how women entrepreneurs can use public speaking to build credibility, inspire action, and drive business growth through confident, strategic communication.
Working from my virtual office at home and catering to the needs of my children is often like walking the fine line of a tightrope. One wrong step, and the balancing act comes to an abrupt end.
A reader wants to start a freelance graphic design business, focusing on print graphic design such as brochures, logo and identity, catalogs and publications, annual reports, as well as traditional ad campaigns. What are the ways I can develop new business and market my business on a tight budget?
The start of the year signifies new beginnings for your business. New energy, new passion, perhaps even new direction. Are you ready and excited to meet all the challenges up ahead?
For work at home moms and entrepreneurs, the quality of your computer system is of paramount importance. Whatever business you are in, computers have become a must-have tool today.
There’s really no single winning formula that can guarantee the success of your business. You just need to find the right business idea, and execute your strategies flawlessly. Of course, that's easier said than done.
Many people nurture the dream of becoming their own boss and turning what they love into a business. However many find their dreams derailed as their lives lead them to different paths.
From Dr. Randal Pinkett, the first and only African American to win NBC network's hit reality TV show The Apprentice, here's an inspiring article that provides a strategic roadmap to help African Americans succeed. It presents a trailblazing path for leveraging ethnic and cultural assets to not only win the game of success in any arena, but to reshape America and leave a powerful legacy.
Pregnancy is a very special time for any woman and her family. However, it is also a time when women are faced with a lot of fashion challenges.
Marcelle Costello launched RentMaternityWear.com to allow pregnant women to rent special occasion clothes and dresses – such as baby showers, cocktail parties, weddings, even date nights – without breaking the bank.
When you’re a work at home mom trying to balance a business with family, it is hard to find time to work while taking care of a busy household. One option is to be very flexible and work at every opportunity you can -- even if that means working in your car, in a coffee shop, or while the kids are finishing their ballet lessons.
Starting a business, in some instances, can be bad for families and relationships. When a family member (say a husband) starts a business, the whole family can be affected — and not always for the better. Here are some risks starting a business can bring to families and marriages:
The global recession has forced many people to reconsider their careers and life choices. In these turbulent times, where does one turn for career advice? As I was researching the material for my new book, The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs (McGraw Hill) I realized that many of the principles behind Jobs' breakthrough success at Apple apply equally to the management of one's career.
What inspires successful entrepreneurs? What words of wisdom guide their actions and thinking? Paul Thornton in his new book “Leadership – Off the Wall” looks at the quotes leaders and successful women entrepreneurs post on their office walls and keep on their desks.
