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“Ready To Learn Mom” with Stacey Kannenberg Radio Show at 10 CST/11 EST every Wednesday!  Join us on 06/23/10 with Traci Bisson of The Mom Entrepreneur (http://themomentrepreneur.com/) with the results of The Business Baby Shower Contest & we are also joined by Mom Inventor with two sets of twins, Barbara Schantz the creator of the Baby Dipper (www.babydipper.com) which she created out of necessity to be able to feed her kids with one hand!

About Traci Bisson:

She admits to being broke at the time and less than sure about what her next steps would be.

But from bare-bones beginnings, Traci spent her remaining savings of $18.49 on “nice paper and envelopes” from Staples as her first step in running her own business. From there, her firm Bisson Barcelona grew to service writers and authors, a mostly ignored and misunderstood market, and individual business professionals.

The Mom Entrepreneur, a company that offers tips, advice and resources for women struggling to balance motherhood and run a company, was founded in April 2008 by Traci Bisson, a mom of two boys and a business owner.

Traci became an entrepreneur in August 2000 after the company she worked at for five years suddenly went out of business. This happened eight weeks after she returned from maternity leave.She admits to being broke at the time and less than sure about what her next steps would be.

But from bare-bones beginnings, Traci spent her remaining savings of $18.49 on “nice paper and envelopes” from Staples as her first step in running her own business. From there, her firm Bisson Barcelona grew to service writers and authors, a mostly ignored and misunderstood market, and individual business professionals.

During the first quarter of 2008, her company was experiencing financial difficulties. Owed several thousand dollars from clients, she faced the prospect of laying off employees. Instead, she cut back on overhead by taking her son out of daycare and establishing a home office.

“Unable to network in person,” she says, “I turned to social outlets – Facebook, Twitter, etc. The Mom Entrepreneur was established within the next 30 days.”

Traci started The Mom Entrepreneur as more of a hobby. She began blogging about her challenges and successes in business and raising kids.

That same month, she sent a query out through two news channels looking for tips on balancing family and business in order to generate some additional content for her blog. She anticipated she would connect with a few other mom entrepreneurs, interview them and post their stories on her blog.

In less then 48 hours, Traci had received 400 emails with more than 1,000 tips from mom entrepreneurs all over the world. She was overwhelmed and very excited.

From that point, The Mom Entrepreneur started to grow. The company added The Mom Entrepreneur Online Support Group in June 2008, and then developed a custom, first-of-its-kind social networking site in January 2010 specifically for the needs of mom entrepreneurs. Members network with each other and offer support for balancing the demands of motherhood and running a company.

In January 2009, the company created The Mom Entrepreneur Co-op Shop, which includes bargains on dozens of products and services for moms, dads and kids.

The company also manages a suite of blogs, including The Mom Entrepreneur, Kids in New Hampshire and Neighbors Helping Neighbors as well as an educational Webinar series.

Traci’s story as an entrepreneur has been told in dozens of publications, including Plan Ahead Get Ahead (cover story), Entrepreneur.com, WomenEntrepreneur.com, Associated Press, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB.com), Women’s Business Boston Journal, Union Leader, The Portsmouth Herald, RoleMommy.com, The Grand Island Independent and Parenting NH Magazine.

About Barbara Schantz:

Hello! I’m Barbara Schantz, mom of twin girls, Greta and Cora, born in 2004, and also the mother of twin boys, Franklin and Carlton, born in 2008. As a stay-at-home mom of twin babies, I faced the daunting task of feeding them. Frustrated with the bowls I had already purchased, I investigated and bought other bowls, but still remained disappointed. The vision for the Baby Dipper® bowl came to me when Cora and Greta were about 6 months old, not long after they started eating baby cereal and other pureed foods. I needed a bowl that required only one hand to successfully feed a baby, but why wasn’t there one on the market that satisfied this need?

I was thinking that to accomplish one-handed feeding, the bowl should not slide around on the table and it should aid in the collection of the baby food. A non-slip bottom surface would keep it from sliding. A sloped interior surface and a spoon-shaped collection point would help gather the food down to the last bite. Also, adding to those features, vertical sides would help push food onto the spoon and transparent sides would allow the food to be seen easily by both the parent and the child. The bowl I designed has proven to make feeding much easier for parents and even for toddlers trying to spoon-feed themselves. The patented Baby Dipper bowl is truly unique in the marketplace and hopefully will help parents everywhere.

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