Locating the Ordinary and the Extraordinary All Across America

California mompreneur creates a different kind of online shopping directory.

West Hills, CA (PRWEB) October 13, 2005 -- Sara Hoos spends a lot of time discovering quaint family businesses on the back roads of the USA. She also is part of a vast network of work-at-home moms with online businesses that can’t be listed in telephone directories. She wanted to create a way to make this information available to everybody. As a result, www.YourHometownMarketplace.com, listing small businesses in over 30,000 American cites and towns, was born.

Ms. Hoos grew up traveling around the country in an RV with her family for several weeks at a time. She scouted side streets in small towns for unique gift shops, often finding the perfect present for friends or relatives. When health issues made it difficult for her to do this, Ms. Hoos decided that she would travel the USA through the Internet, looking for the same types of family businesses in small towns that she was accustomed to visiting.

“Much to my surprise,” this enterprising entrepreneur states, “I came up empty-handed. I couldn’t even find telephone numbers for the shops I knew existed.” So the logical thing to do was to create an online directory with listings by town and cross-listed by product category to make it easy to get that one-of-a-kind gift made in Anytown, USA.

As a work-at-home mom, Ms. Hoos also wants to help fellow moms publicize their online businesses, often lost in the search engines. Many of these mompreneurs offer unique gift items, but some sell ordinary products such as kitchenware or make-up. “They’re an untapped resource for their local communities,” owner Ms. Hoos comments. “You could be living down the street from someone selling an item you need in a hurry and not know it!”

YourHometownMarketplace.com is user-friendly, unlike huge online shopping directories that often are filled with dead or irrelevant links. “At YourHometownMarketPlace.com, it’s easy to come in, get out, and be over in no time at all!” Ms. Hoos proclaims.

Ms. Hoos is owner and operator of www.YourHometownMarketplace.com. Ms. Hoos is also a single mom to 2 girls Rebekah and Abigail.

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