Wow, it's been an incredible journey for BabyQuip over the past six months! We've experienced tremendous growth and achieved remarkable things that truly showcase our commitment to making life easier for families like yours. Expanding Network and Market Presence Our network of Quality Providers (QPs) [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has definitely shaken up family travel in ways nobody could have predicted. But hey, who says change can't be a good thing? Let's take a look at some of the pandemic-induced trends that have improved the travel experience and benefited local communities. [...]
After domestic travel sales topped $972 billion in 2019, travel was expected to grow by 11% in 2020. We all know what happened in 2020, and then travel started coming back strong in 2021. At BabyQuip, we’ve already seen record bookings this year, far exceeding [...]
Just as family travel was returning strong, the Delta variant came along and messed everything up again. We support you, whether you choose to travel now, travel later, or cancel altogether! If you are among the young families out there choosing to keep your travel [...]
Earlier this month, BabyQuip turned 5! Always a milestone for a startup, but especially so now, as we survived the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and are happy to say travel is back! Like most travel industry and hospitality businesses, we saw our business decline [...]
BabyQuip works hard to ensure that our customers, mostly parents, and grandparents, are happy with BabyQuip's services. So each year, we send out our annual customer survey to get honest feedback about BabyQuip. We do more than any other service like ours to make sure [...]
I am happy to announce that BabyQuip has formed a strategic partnership with Inhabitr, the fastest growing online furniture rental company. We are now providing long term baby gear rentals to millennial families in select cities with more coming in the near future. We all [...]
BabyQuip, like every other travel related business, has been hit hard by the Covid-19 Pandemic. For good reasons, families with small children cancelled their travel plans this Spring, opting instead to stay home and stay safe. As some parts of the US and Canada started [...]
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Fran Maier is CEO and Founder of BabyQuip, the leading baby gear rental service for traveling families and now offering local cleaning services too. She is a serial entrepreneur and brand builder with over 25 years experience in B2C and B2B internet businesses. She is best known for her 10+ years leading TRUSTe (now TrustArc), the leading privacy trustmark and compliance provider, and as Co-Founder and first General Manager of Match.com.
Fran speaks widely on several topics relating to women in business, including opportunities for women in the collaborative economy, addressing the lucrative family travel segment, women in entrepreneurship and on boards. She serves as an advisor to many start-ups including Portfolia, Women’s Start-up Lab, Sign-up.com, Kango, and Dabbl.