Welcome! Thanks for stopping by. If you're one of those women
who wants to work at home but has struggled to find work at home
businesses
that are legitimate opportunities, you found the right place.
At Women's Work, we help find work at home
opportunities
for working women by offering step-by-step guides to getting you started with your own home business, as well as articles and online videos that will assist you.
HISTORY In 1997 Women's Work was initially created. It started as a women's (general) business site. It received a lot of recognition, but the mistake I made was trying to do too much...to make it appeal to all working women...an Internet version of Working Women magazine. I got side-tracked for a few years...paying bills by designing websites, which I still do today. Unfortunately, Women's Work languished. Then I got involved into a home-based business that to this day the company denies is an MLM company (it is). This was a time where I lacked focus, but I was learning a lot. Still, I kept designing websites and carved out a nice little niche in the independent/private school market, which I continue to work on. But it nagged me that I was neglecting Women's Work...
Meanwhile, during this time my husband and I were raising our young son. It worked out well for our family because my husband had the benefit-paying corporate job while I had my business and the flexibility that it offered. My friends would often tell me that I had the "best of both worlds"...I had a wonderful business that satisfied the "achiever" in me, but one that was flexible enough so that I could be the mom who saw my son off to school in the morning, greeted him at the door when he got home, and occasionally chaperoned a field trip or two.
And that's when I got to thinking...why not recreate Women's Work so that more women could benefit from the "best of both worlds"...Design Women's Work to be the resource for women who desire a more flexible environment working from home while raising a family. So that's exactly what I'm doing...partly because "Corporate America" isn't doing a very good job. Sure, there may be some window-dressing, even good intentions, but it can't be surprising to anyone that women have been leaving corporations in droves. Some to raise a family, others to find better opportunities, still others to start their own businesses, but all want more flexibility.
Now, to be honest. I 've made my share of mistakes along the way...the biggest was being too general, lack of focus, trying to satisfy the masses but appealing to no one. But all of that has led me to a very clear vision where Women's Work will be THE site to provide step-by-step assistance in building your work at home business. We'll tell you exactly where to look for telecommuting jobs. We'll let you know what work at home jobs are in demand. And we will be launching our very own instructional work at home product line that gives you dozens of businesses that you can start now and takes you step-by-step through the process of building your own work at home business. Each work at home business tutorial will be complete with videos, podcasts, and webinars with the experts in their fields. Stay tuned!
But before I go any further, I'm asking for your help. Let me know what you specifically want to see in Women's Work...what you need help with. You can post a comment on our blog or send me an email. I appreciate each and every one of your comments.
Thanks for stopping by,
P.S., to address the complaints that we've received and will continue to receive from men and women about the name of the site, Women's Work, and the emphasis of the site, women in business, you need to know the site's origin. Back in 1995 when I got my first taste of the web, I was in the process of creating a business site aimed at the general population of business people. Well, once that site went online, it was an immediate hit, winning some awards and gaining a steadily increasing audience. This was at a time when the World Wide Web was in its infancy and there was a lot of skepticism about whether the Internet was a viable medium or whether it would be our next CB radio. Nonetheless, it was getting a lot of attention and many surveys were underway to understand who exactly was using this new medium. The surveys at that time were saying that mostly men were signing on. They were technical and young. Women, on the other hand, were only 5-10% of the population signing on. But, that didn't jive with the numbers we were seeing on the site and the emails we were getting. It was at that time I decided to change directions a bit and target a niche that I thought would be growing. And that was the genesis of Women's Work. There you have it! That's all there is to it. It had nothing to do with who we like and don't like. It was a marketing decision, nothing more, nothing less.
