What do you do when you are just one of several consultants your client is using on a project and one of the other consultants is clearly a scam artist?

This is a situation I was confronted with recently. I was brought on to help oversee some of the Web initiatives and asked to sit in on a meeting with a Web development company. In short order, I recognized all the signs of a scam.

Having run my own Web development firm in the mid-90s, I watched other Web companies do one or more of the following things to their clients: Read the rest of this entry »

As a writer, I receive a lot of pitches from PR people trying to get me to write about their clients. Since I specialize in writing about women in business, I see my fair share of pitches with the term “Mompreneur” in them.

Wondering what the term “mompreneur” really meant, I did a quick search on Google and came up with several definitions:

Definition: A female business owner who is actively balancing the role of mom and the role of entrepreneur (Entrepreneur.com)

Most definitions, however, are more specific and refer to women entrepreneurs who are work-at-home moms.

MompreneursOnline.com defines mompreneurs as work-at-home mothers and claim to have coined and trademarked the term in 1996 with their first Mompreneurs book.

So do we really need the term “Mompreneur?”

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