A Stay-at-Home Business Mom

Dana Davis, DJ’s Desktop, tells businesses, “I can put your image of your business on paper.”  She designs all sorts of business documents and forms, and for fledgling entrepreneurs, Davis developed a New Business Starter Kit. In the near future, she’ll be offering websites to her clients and a 2010 calendar. Davis is exceptionally particular about quality, so she does the printing herself. Someday, she’d like to have her own store front, offering a full-service design business.

Davis’s career started when she donated design work to her son’s Cub Scout troop. The other parents were so impressed, they encouraged her to start a business. While Davis had figured out how to design by herself using her native artistic talents, she had no one to teach her the ins and outs of self-employment. She credits her mother-in-law for bringing Washington CASH to her attention. Davis muses, “I don’t know if I would have been able to start a business without their help.”

“Washington CASH supports you on the business side,” Davis says. “They help you get around obstacles. You have someone to go to for answers. They find resources and make micro-loans to Washington CASH Members. They really get you started. And it costs little-to-nothing!” She gives special thanks to the program’s mentors. “They still open my eyes every day to new information about running your own business.”

Davis works from home. She has established regular business hours, although occasions do arise where exceptions have to be made for family or clients. “However, working for myself means that I control my own schedule. I am able to volunteer one day a week at my sons’ school. And all the profit is mine.”

“Running your own business is not easy, that’s for sure!” emphasizes Davis, “but the time that I spend with my family and the F-R-E-E-D-O-M I have to raise our children means the world to me.”