Phyllis Pometta is a woman who wears many hats. She had started her entrepreneurial career as the founder and designer of a unique product business, Bandana Boutique. While marketing her business she found that her love for marketing never did go away, it was just buried within the day to day life of raising a family. Phyllis was faced with a difficult decision on whether or not she should close Bandana Boutique to persue her life long dream and passion, marketing. On September 6, 2009 she started her own celebrity gifting company, Baby Swags. It has become a mission of Baby Swags to provide marketing and public relations strategies to other entrepreneurial women in business who do not have the big time budgets as some other businesses do. Since it's start, Baby Swags has successfully 'gifted' well over 500 celebrities, helped over 400 WAHM companies and provided products to several charitable organizations.
Client products have been seen on many A-List celebrities. Baby Swags has hosted the "Rockin Lollipop Lounge" during the 2009 Baby & Tween Celebration LA Expo as well as providing gift bags for 250 audience members viewing the hit medical show, "The Doctors". Baby Swags partnered up with little maven by Tori Spelling for a Mother's Day gifting that reached out to ten celebrity moms. Phyllis has contributed to various entrepreneurial books and magazines such as Inc. Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens and has been interviewed by various media and print outlets. As part of the Baby Swags growth Phyllis will launch her own online and digital magazine, Tots To Teens Magazine. In addition, she has created a parent company that will cover all areas of her business that includes, Tots To Teens Magazine, Baby Swags, and The Mommy Mentor. The parent company, ASG Media Group will officially launch in September 2010.
Phyllis has built up relationships with many start-up businesses and has offered them ways to brand their business and products to celebrity new moms and their babies via celebrity gifting. She has also built strong relationships with many of Hollywood's "Gatekeepers" and Celebrities and has a strong belief in that communication and customer service is the most valuable asset in any company's success. She has and will always put the needs of her clients first.
Above all, Phyllis is a mom to three beautiful children, Alyssa 11, Scotty 8 and Gianna 5, and has been married to Steve since 1995. They are currently residing in Plainfield, Illinois. Phyllis has been able to bridge and maintain a healthy balance between work and home. She is a role model to her children as her oldest daughter has started her own blog, appropriately titled, Celebrity Teen Blog and is an aspiring young entrepreneur designing bracelets for friends, family and celebrities.
URLS: www.babyswags.com, www.totstoteensmagazine.com and www.themommymentor.com and coming soon, asgmediagroup.com
Twitter: @Babyswags @asgmediagroup @totstoteensmag @themommymentor and you can follow her daughter @celebteenblog
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Posted on: 08-31-2010 @ 11:40 am EST