Press Releases

10.21.2008

What are Small Business Owners Really Saying in this Election? It’s Not About the Taxes, Stupid.

“Joe the Plumber” has become a central figure in the battle for the small business vote in the presidential election. While both candidates have focused on small business owners’ concern over higher taxes, these concerns are hardly important at all to businesses owned by one person with no employees (78% of all small businesses). Solo business owners are saying that they surprisingly really don’t care very much about tax cuts. The cost of insurance and access to health care is the number #1 cited worry by a margin of 3 to 1 over small business tax increases.

7.31.2008

Mom Bloggers Talk Business – And Get the Attention of the U.S. Government

Sparkplugging, the network of blogs founded to help small business owners who work at home, announced today a new content relationship with Business.gov. Sparkplugging will now be featuring content from Business.gov as a way to help the Presidential E-Government Business Gateway Initiative reach more home based business owners.

4.16.2008

eMoms at Home Reborn as Sparkplugging

The well-known internet home business magazine for parents, eMomsatHome, has taken on a new identity to better relate to its audience. The site, which relaunched Tuesday, is now Sparkplugging.com, for people who are “thinking big in the new work at home generation.” Founder Wendy Piersall said the cause for the change was the shifting of the home business industry.

9.20.2007

One-Stop Online Resource for Work-From-Home Parents Launched

Wendy Piersall, founder of eMomsatHome.com, “the internet home business magazine for moms and dads,” announced recently an expansion of the internet magazine. The new site will include seven blogs (written by nine authors) that cater to work-at-home parents, including both business content as well as parenting information…