The Business Baby Shower is a contest to celebrate entrepreneurial moms and all they do to birth and grow a successful company while balancing family life. Please visit our Overview page to learn more.
This Contest, which runs from January 1 – April 30, 2010, will create awareness of mom entrepreneur companies and their products and services. Participants will complete an Application process as well as submit a two minute video of their business for consideration by our esteemed panel of judges, which includes Tamara Monosoff of Mom Invented, Stacey Kannenberg of Cedar Valley Publishing and Andrew Morrison of Small Business Camp.
Three winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd place) will be chosen in May. Winners will receive thousands of dollars worth of media exposure for their business from our Media Sponsors as well as gifts, services and bonuses from our Contest Sponsors.
In addition, the first 200 applicants will receive two special gifts. The first is a free download of the popular book PR in Your Pajamas by Elena Verlee (value of $29), and the second is one-month of free access to Care4Hire.com’s database of care providers (value of $34.99).
Women entrepreneurs are opening new businesses in the United States and Canada at an amazing rate. They envision an opportunity to develop a new product or service, and pursue that vision in search of independence and financial reward.
According to a recent study conducted by the Center for Women’s Business Research:
- There are 10.1 million firms owned by women in the U.S., employing 13 million people and generating $1.9 trillion in revenues.
- Women own 20% of all firms with revenues exceeding $1 million.
In today’s current economy, mom entrepreneurs face different challenges starting and growing businesses as compared to several years ago.
Much like a soon-to-be mom who is giving birth to her first, second or fifth child…the Business Baby Shower was developed to support mom entrepreneurs both financially and mentally to help prepare them for professional and personal transitions as they start a business or take an existing one to the next level.
The concept was developed by Lucinda Cross of Corporate Mom DropOuts and Traci Bisson of The Mom Entrepreneur both of whom have spent many years supporting and educating women entrepreneurs about how to start and grow a business.