Good read of the week. Once in while it is good to dive in the life of those who has been successful and sort of steal their secrets. What can I say if it work for them, it might work for me… who am I? I’m just a simple working mom trying to be a mompreneur 
According to the Center for Women’s Business Research, in 2006 nearly 10.4 million businesses were owned by women. This growing segment of the economy includes many women who also have a family to manage. These high-achieving women are constantly over thinking, second-guessing, and reevaluating themselves and their lives. They enjoy having their own businesses, but they wonder if it is in their best interest to stay home and raise their families, work as an employee,… More >>
The Entrepreneurial Mom: Managing for Success in Your Home and Your Business
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This was a really nice book. I haven’t seen another one on the market quite like it. The author says in her book that back in 1992 when she decided to own her own business that she looked for a book like the instant one, but couldn’t find one. She swore that if she was successful at owning her own company, then she would plug the market with the book she was looking for. And here it is. What a gem!
The book has the following 11 chapters;
1. OK, I can do it
2. Childcare
3. Organization of your home and office
4. Juggling the roles of mom and business owner
5. Words of wisdom
6. The positives and negatives
7. Entrepreneurial moms speak
8. Setting up your business
9. Marketing
10. The choices and the children
11. What is success, anyway?
Clearly this book emphasizes the topics unique to a business owned by a woman with kids in their early years up to teenagers. The book is not sugar-coated. It is pretty up front with the things a mother must do to be a good mom and a good business owner.
This book goes into some of the issues that would exist if a business is created totally from scratch. The author chose not to go the franchise route in starting a business. She owns a floor covering (carpet laying) business in Florida. Also, her take on the subject at hand is from the perspective of a business owner offering a pretty cut and dry product coupled with a service. I think the book would have been a little different if she was running her own law office or consulting type business. Maybe another woman can write that book from her personal experiences?
I would have liked the book better if Chapter 7 regarding “Entrepreneurial Moms Speak” had been less superficial. There are 15 women quoted in the chapter and they said a few things to compliment the author’s story. But it could have been much better. For example, why not have a few consultants go into some depth as to the real problems they face that are a little different from the author’s but are real just the same? This could have been done, but wasn’t.
I particularly enjoyed reading the “101 Time Savers” list at the end of the book. It added a nice touch to the book overall. 5 stars!
Rating: 5 / 5
Reviewed by Lori Plach for Reader Views (7/07)
Do you feel the need to expand your horizons? Do you desire to be more than “just a stay-at-home mom?” Do you want to combine the best profession of being a mother with being your own boss and earning an income? Do you want the flexibility of earning an income yet being available for your children? If you answered yes to any of these questions, perhaps you have just the right qualities for being an entrepreneurial mom.
Mary E. Davis has developed a book to help you every step of the way to becoming an entrepreneur using her own personal experience of owning her flooring business for 15 years. She gives you insights you wouldn’t get if it weren’t for the voice of experience. Oftentimes she adds humor to her display of experience in starting a business from an idea to a success.
“The Entrepreneurial Mom” gives you an opportunity to explore just how you can combine being your own boss with being the quality mother that your family needs. One particular chapter that I found to be very useful is not just for entrepreneurial moms, but for all moms, no matter if they are stay-at-home or working moms. It is entitled “101 Time Savers, Stress Reducers, and Inspirations for Moms.”
“The Entrepreneurial Mom” is a sure-fire book for mothers who have the dream of opening their own business, either now or somewhere down the road!
Rating: 5 / 5
A great read! Packed with personal stories and suggestions for today’s over-worked moms who yearn to start their own business! Reading this book is like talking to a trusted friend and coming away with great advice on everything from how to start a business; promote it; deal with people; and still handle the responsibilities of your other ‘job,’ as ‘Mom.’
Rating: 5 / 5
Mary Davis’ “The Entrepreneurial Mom” is a book filled with advice for entrepreneurs ready to begin new endeavors and easy-to-relate-to stories about balancing being a professional woman with the other roles of wife, mother, friend, classroom mom, and the list continues. The book is a great read that offers “entertainment” as well as practical knowledge from a seasoned businesswoman.
I found the Timesavers at the end of the book to be new and useful — things that I think could help my family and me tremendously!
“The Entrepreneurial Mom” is especially encouraging, as I was able to see that I can have a family, a business, be happy and successful!
I would recommend this book to ALL moms (isn’t managing a household like running a business, lol?), and especially those who may be in the process of or thinking about building a business.
Rating: 5 / 5
My show with author and entreprenuer, Mary E. Davis was great! Mary has over 15 years experience in being self-employed, and she brought incredible wisdom to the show for moms, and women in general, on how to balance the sometimes competing responsibilites of running a business and running a household. It was clear that Mary was fired up with passion on giving women business owners information that will help them plan, operate and succeed at business from a realistic point of view.
Every show, my guest speak with me about the challenges they walked through in order to realize their dreams. Mary’s challenges were particular interesting to me, because they spoke of her persistence and belief in herself. Mary shared with us that when she first began her business in the flooring industry, she was pregnant. One particular order that she needed to complete required moving very heavy flooring. She had no one that could help her move the order, so you know what this woman did? She hoped her pregnant belly on a fork lift or tractor trailer truck and hauled that order to where it needed to be, herself! That says alot about her ethics, determination and belief in herself.
For the women business owners out there, Mary’s words of wisdom were clear and simple: DON’T GIVE UP, and MAKE IT HAPPEN! Good planning, an accountability team and sheer guts can take you all the way to success!
Rating: 5 / 5