Canadian Small Home Based Business Bio's

Two Women, With Kids, and a Mission!

Just thought we'd tell you a little about who we really are. We are two women (Tracey & Michelle) in our late twenties - okay - our thirties (early), with kids and a passion for computers, meeting new people and becoming independently wealth before the kids leave home!

We have combined our skills to create a financially viable Home Based Business. In our independent journeys to be self-employed, we found the road to success to be full of potholes and speed bumps. By Networking, we offered each other support, encouragement and lessened the sense of isolation we were both feeling. We quickly realized that our skills and work habits complimented each other and that by joining forces we would be better able to fulfill our dream of becoming successful!

Thus our Canadian Small Home Based Business Networking idea was born!

We decided to create this Web Site as a Networking Base for small home based businesses across Canada. It is our mission, that this site will be the place to go to share our experiences, ideas and insite into the wonderful world of Small and Home Based Businesses.

We intend for this site to be the forum where we come together to help each other deal with the various issues that we may or may not be aware of, that become stumbling blocks on the way to reaching our goals.

This is a call to all small and home based business owners to dust the cobwebs off your memory cells, reminisce a bit and submit to us your articles, ramblings, and life altering experiences (no we don't want to hear about your tie-dyed t-shirts or bell bottom days!) for us to post and share with other dreamers like ourselves.

Tracey: I'm the one in the early thirites. I have two wonderful boys, 10 and 11. I started in computers by helping out a business associate set-up a management office for a condominium complex. This involved putting in place a computerized property management software package. While doing this, they provided me with a computer for use at home. It's around this time that I stopped doing the housework, hid the dirty dishes, started using paper plates, and found the worlds cheapest babysitter -- T.V. By the way, I also discovered that my relationship with the computer was a deeper and more meaningful one than the one I had with my husband. So the computer stayed and I got rid of the husband.

I started bookkeeing from home to suppliment my deminished income. I then spent the next two years developing my computer skills by doing small jobs here and there for friends and family. A funny thing happened -- they told two friends, who told two friends, who told two friends-- and before I knew it, I was in business.

It's been two and a half years and I have, to my complete amazement, managed to support my family quite comfortably. It has been a very steep up-hill climb, yet I have maintained a loving relationship with my kids and a semi-uncluttered path to my computer. All I need now is to get a life!

Michelle: I have two wonderful children, a boy, 7 and a girl, 3. Oh, and a husband. HELP!

I have been a stay-at-home mom for seven long years. I have tried my hand at several home based businesses, but found the isolation and lack of creative critism to be my biggest stumbling block. I'm a people person (euphemism for I love to talk) so going it alone was not for me.

I have spent the last 4 years as an active member of my community. I sit on many education committees, and I am actively involved in local politics, which has allowed me greater insite to government and the banks' lack of respect for home based businesses. I believe that with a strong united voice we can wake them up to the financial gold mine that lies waiting to be tapped into.

Tracey turned me on to computers about two years ago and I have discovered an amazing outlet for my creativity. Up to that point, my computer had been nothing more the place to write letters to family, reports and to "spell check " them without having to whip out a dictionary. Thanks to Tracey and the computer specialist at my son's school, I have gained the skills needed to do more than just turn the computer on!

Between my political lobbying, and being the perfect mother and wife (yes, we eat off of paper plates too and I love Barney), I manage to find time to offer my computer talents, by being the writer, typist, and editor of various educational newsletters, developing and managing websites and educational chat forums from the up, all on a volunteer basis. Everyone has been telling me I could make money doing this - so world -- "Show Me The Money"!

Yes, "spell check" is still my very best friend, but I have now added so may other computer capibilities to my list of best friends. Networking provided me with the confidence and connections I needed to get in the GREEN!

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