Why I started Independent Projects

I started thinking and planning the idea of Independent Projects back in 2006, before the economy took its largest downfall. I was laid off by one of the major financial institutes and was also seven months pregnant at the time. I struggled to find meaning and a new career path. Shortly after being laid off, I started working for an independent financial planner from home, but was still planning my future in my head. Do I go back to work with only enough salary to pay for daycare, or do I really start this business? I wanted a solid business model that would survive this recession. Business owners continued to struggle to keep their dreams afloat. Since I was already working from home for one person, I designed thoughts in my head of how I might be able to work with multiple business owners and entrepreneurs. From these thoughts evolved Independent Projects. A company that looked at the economy and thought of ways to support those business owners who didn’t have the means or desires to hire a full-time/part-time permanent employee, with the rising costs of healthcare and employee taxes. Independent Projects helps business owners keep their dreams moving forward by offering various support in administration, marketing, web design…all of those tedious, but most important tasks those same business owners keep pushing back because they need to focus their energy on surviving this recession and keep their business growing. Outsourcing those particular tasks to Independent Projects allows them to keep moving forward at half the cost of an employee. We don’t charge membership fees and by outsourcing you eliminate the need to offer or pay for healthcare, unemployment compensation, employee taxes and workman’s compensation. We only charge our clients for the work we do for them. Making this a win-win business model for both parties in this desperate time of recession. My team is also made up of stay-at-home moms. When I became a stay-at-home mom myself, I found it more challenging than I anticipated it to be. There are currently five million stay at home moms in the US. Many of which are talented and have degrees. Inflation keeps going up, but our payroll does not. Many of us choose to stay home, because we know that if we went back to work, we would be working just to pay for daycare. Currently, there is not a whole lot of funding for early childhood education and daycares in this area are expensive. My goal with Independent Projects is to not only offer support to business owners, but also offer a legitimate company that moms can work for from home.

Keep pushing forward…. you can only succeed if you believe in yourself and your ideas.