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Address: 7363 Marla Drive
Phone: 491-5051
Web site: www.parmeleewdbng.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Founded: 2000
Founder/owner: Kris Parmelee
Service/product: professional services, focused on written communications
Employees: 0
Revenue (2005): $100,000
One-year goal: Take on new projects that challenge professional and intellectual comfort zone while continuing to balance work and family.
Industry outlook: strong, as more businesses and not-for-profits outsource grant writing
You could call Kris Parmelee a matchmaker.
After all, the 33-year-old writer makes a living "marrying" the financial needs of her not-for-profit and small-business clients with assorted funding opportunities.
Launched in 2000, Parmelee Creative and Technical Writing grossed $100,000 last year. Parmelee says grant writing represents about half of her business; the rest comes from any other type of written communications clients might needfrom marketing materials to newsletters.
Parmelee started the business in her north-side home the same year she graduated with a degree in public affairs from IUPUI. She also was pregnant with her first child. Today, Parmelee and her husband have three children.
Starting a business where she could...