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Contestant's Case to Win

TheWAHMmagazine is the only content-driven digital magazine for work-at-home parents. Conceived in 2006 and launched January 2007, its mission is to validate, empower, encourage, educate and support work-at-home parents in their professional, personal and family goals.

Experience, Leadership, Involvement:
As the publisher and editor-in-chief, I'm a writer, editor and work-at-home mom married to a telecommuting husband, I've taken my entrepreneurial spirit and my decade of experience in publications and parlayed it into creating a bi-monthly digital magazine that addresses the business, parenting, personal, mental and spiritual growth issues that work-at-home parents face regardless of industry or method of working from home.

"See A Need, Fill A Need"
To borrow the phrase from the Pixar movie "Robots," theWAHMmagazine exists because the time is now for a cutting-edge, eco-friendly publication that speaks directly to parents who work from home about their (our) lifestyle with well-written, useful, engaging and informative articles. TheWAHMmagazine is for telecommuters, freelancers, independent contractors, consultants, professionals in private practice, home-based business entrepreneurs and other parents (and hopeful parents) who work from home. There is no other WAHM producing such a comprehensive look at the work-at-home parenting life in digital edition, which uses flash-based page-flip technology and can be read on-line or off-line.

Green Commitment:
By publishing full content of the magazine as a digital edition, we reduce the waste and energy generated to produce and send a full print run to subscribers of the magazine. It reduces the number of trees needed to be harvested for the paper, and in turn reduces the mailbox- and home/office clutter for readers. For those readers who "must have" a hard copy of the magazine, for limited content, we will be using a print-on-demand service that uses Forest Stewardship Council approved pulps and recycled fibers, has PCB-free and chlorine-free paper in a LEED-certified facility. And, in-part to offset our POD-demands on the environment and give back to the environment, for every new subscription acquired, we donate a portion of the proceeds to plant ten new trees world-wide through a partnership with the non-profit organization, Trees for the Future.

Print is not dead, but the eco-friendly option and multimedia capabilities of digital editions are gaining a strong foothold in the magazine industry according to statistics from Folio Magazine and the MPA. TheWAHMmagazine is here to be a part of that and is poised to be ready to take advantage of e-paper solutions when the technology becomes more universal and affordable, all the while helping current and hopeful work-at-home parents succeed in their professional and personal missions for a greater work-life/family-life balance.