✳ Reel It In

Want to be a star? Now's your time to shine. We've partnered with SparkReel to help you promote your business -- in under 15 seconds -- with your smartphone. Connect with Founding Moms from across the country while you practice selling your business's story (can you ever practice your pitch too much?). You can even get feedback in this new video platform and use it to build your audience. Check out fellow Founding Moms' videos right here and add your 15 cents. We'll be featuring you on Facebook, too!

✳ Share This

Want to figure out how to sell your services or products online? I'll teach you! I've partnered with Skillshare.com to bring you my "Quintessential Guide to Mom Entrepreneurship." If you want to launch a company, or if you’ve already launched but haven’t started selling online yet, this class will do just the trick. The class happens online so you can be based anywhere in the world to attend. Use code "TWEET" for $5 off over here (and then feel free to tweet that you did to @foundingmom.) We start in February so hurry it up, will you?

✳ Fund It

Feeling glamorous and fundable? The Cartier Women's Initiative Award offers funding, coaching, networking opportunities and exposure to early-phase women entrepreneurs. Win one-to-one personalized business coaching, networking, media exposure and the possibility of $20,000 in funding. Oh, and Finale Week in France! Deadline is March 8, so apply right here right now.

✳ Drive Forward

Know a business owner in the creative arts community? Are you one? Because Scion wants to give you a car. And some money. Scion will be selecting those in the creative arts community who can prove how seriously passionate they are about their plans. They're starting a program to help entrepreneurs take their business to the next level and picking 50 people to fly to the Scion Motivate Event in LA in March. Then we’ll be picking ten of those folks to receive $10,000, the Scion of their choice and continued access to mentors to help mobilize their venture. Deadline is February 1, so hop to it.

✳ Create Opportunity

Have an idea for a website, mobile news service or interactive opportunities to engage, inspire and improve news and information in a geographic community or a community of interest? J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the McCormick Foundation are seeking to fund four women-led media projects that show promise in creativity and sustainability. The McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs award provides $14,000 in funding to women who have the vision, skills and experience to launch a new venture. That you? Then head over here.