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June 21, 2004

(PRWEB) June 21,2004--According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), home-based businesses account for 53 percent of all small businesses. The decline in the economy, -i.e., rise in unemployment, rise in cost of child care, as well as the dream of Americans owning their own business, has spurred an extraordinary demand for work at home small businesses.

As a work at home grandma, Francine York, the organization's president and publisher of Modern Opportunity, is producing the Expo to offer myriad business opportunities, services and products, to everyone who wants (or needs) to work from home. Visitors can attend sponsored workshops and seminars, and can win one of many valuable door prizes being given at the Expo.

Exhibitor and sponsor positions are still available with an "Early Bird Registration Special: 10% off exhibitor fees when booth is reserved with a deposit by May 17, 2004!

To receive a FREE Modern Opportunity newsletter, and to learn more about how exhibitors and attendees can get the most from trade shows (a Direct Marketing magazine reprint by Andrew Linick, Ph.D-columnist and Visionary Direct Marketing Strategist�.), Email newsletter@modernopportunity.com. "Trade show participation can generate quality leads and repeat sales virtually overnight,"

advises Dr. Linick. For further information, contact Francine York at 631-673-3208 or email: fran@modernopportunity.com. Visit Website, http://www.modernopportunity.com for upcoming announcements.

Since 1992, Modern Opportunity, has been providing people with opportunities and resources to inform and empower them in small work at home businesses. Modern Opportunity.com is fast becoming the quintessential business opportunity web site with many informative articles and columns geared to assisting small business entrepreneurs in becoming successful.

Personal Message from the Publisher, Francine York

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A personal message from the publisher...

How I became a proud, single, work at home grandma.

My name is Francine York, publisher of Modern Opportunity Web site and newsletter. I welcome you to what is fast becoming the quintessential business opportunity web site. Not only will you find a wide variety of interesting and profitable opportunities; but you will find services and products as well. Feel free to browse the site and read the many informative articles and columns geared to assisting you in becoming a successful entrepreneur. My email "door" is always open to you; so email me anytime and you will receive a personal reply from me.

And now, about my background and how I came to publish this site and newsletter... Due to budget tightening, my job at a not-for-profit agency was cut back to part time. Because I needed more of an income, I set out looking for a new position. At about the same time, my daughter and son-in-law gave me the wonderful news that they were expecting their first child and my first grandchild! My joy was boundless until the reality of economics deflated my euphoria. My daughter would have to go back to work three months after the baby was born. I started envisioning he/she being cared for by strangers in a day care setting. Fortunately, when I had my three children, I was able to stay at home until the youngest was in full day nursery school; but she could not financially do the same.
EUREKA! It suddenly became crystal clear...I would stay home and care for my grandchild.

First I headed for my financial advisor to review my finances and see if I could do this. He politely and firmly said, "Get a job, send your grandchild to day care like so many others do; sell your house; giveaway your three dogs; and rent a small apartment, then maybe you can afford to stay home." Needless to say, I was horrified and angry. You see, I had recently separated from my husband of many years and could no longer rely on him to help with the income.
The more people told me what a crazy idea this was, the more I was determined to do it! I began looking in the classifieds for home based business opportunities. Most listings were for opportunities for which you needed a great deal of money; and that I would not be able to run from my home. That was not going to do. Unfortunately, at the time, I was not knowledgeable about the myriad business opportunities available which can be operated from the home. Finally, I saw an ad for newspaper for sale. The same week my grandson, Ethan Jacob, was born (May 11, 2002), I became the new owner of a business opportunity newspaper. Since I knew the impact the Internet has on today's existence, I immediately started designing a web site. Today, after a year of changes, improvements, redesign and hard work, the site has grown to over one hundred pages with more on the way.

I am a proud, single, work at home grandma now; and loving every minute of it! And...guess what? On March 18, 2004, I became a grandma for the second time with Ryan Caleb!

To give readers, some info about my educational background...I graduated from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY with Bachelor and Masters of Science degrees in the field of education. I spent the next four years teaching in a N.Y.C. public junior high school. Coming next was a move to the "burbs" in 1973 followed by the birth of my third child. When he turned four, I returned to teaching in a Brooklyn High School. The commute, the conditions and having a mother who was quite ill caused me to rethink the teaching profession. I decided that I needed a change, a challenge and to be closer to home. My next venture was opening a retail business...a Hallmark card and gift store on Long Island. Fifteen successful years later, that was sold. Not at all ready to sit idly by and watch the world pass me, I sought a new focus. I found a job working for a small marketing company. Since writing was always my hobby-I have been published several times-I was able to write copy, marketing plans, radio commercials and the like. It was during that time, after many years of marriage, that my husband and I decided to separate. The week after my daughter was married, 8/13/00, I lost my job. Luckily, I was hired to do public relations, write press releases, oversee the computer program, assist with development, etc. for the not-for-profit agency at which I had been volunteering as a crisis counselor since 1995.

My story comes full circle...I am here, it's 2003 and I am a very happy stay at home, single grandma whose mission is to offer money-making opportunities, services, products and essential information so others who desire, or need to, will be empowered and able to stay at home; and they will be able to find all the resources necessary to do just that right here...so, WELCOME and much success in your endeavors!

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