Tina Gleisner in the News

Tina Gleisner, founder & CEO of 2 Online Communities

• My Handyman owner launches Home Tips 4 Women Web site, By Andrew Leibs in the Portsmouth Herald, November 2010

Cars come with owner’s manuals. Houses don’t.

And while there are professionals for every type of home project or repair, a knowledge gap prevents many from talking confidently with contractors. This group, said Portsmouth My Handyman owner Tina Gleisner, includes single women, who now account for 21 percent of U.S. home sales. For the full article, Tina Gleisner, launches Home Tips 4 Women Web site.

Note: This article talks about the launch of the Assn of Women Homeowners and www.HomeTips4Women.com. The second community, the Assn of Home Professionals at www.MarketingTips4Pros.com will launch in early 2011.

Tina Gleisner, founder of 4 Walls 1 Roof

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• 4 Walls 1 Roof brings women together, By Kelly Pearson in the NH Mirror, March 2007

Tina Gleisner knows that being a woman in the construction industry can be hard. It’s even harder when you start your own business and are suddenly overwhelmed with how to market your company, said Gleisner, president of My Handyman of Southern NH, in Greenland.

That’s why she co-founded 4 Walls 1 Roof, a network of women business owners and professionals who focus on helping homeowners in New Hampshire. To read the full article, 4 Walls 1 Roof …

Tina Gleisner, owner of My Handyman of Southern NH

Tina’s first steps as an entrepreneur involved a handyman franchise, My Handyman of Southern NH. Here’s what the press had to say about Tina as the owner of My Handyman.

• Tina Gleisner quoted in Portsmouth Herald, Women’s Business Center to celebrate 15 years of support, By Alexis Macarchuk, May 2010

When Tina Gleisner lost her job with a Fortune 500 company in 2002, her blood was boiling and she wanted retribution. But after starting two small businesses — My Handyman of Southern New Hampshire and 4 walls 1 Roof — in the last seven years, she has learned that success is the best revenge.

Gleisner said she owes part of her success to the Women’s Business Center, where she connected to other business owners, got tips on how to develop her business plan and became acquainted with marketing tools like blogging. Read the full article, Women’s Business Center …

• Q&A with My Handyman owner Tina Gleisner, By Cindy Kibbe in the NH Business Review, June 2006

Somewhere during her more than 30 years working at IBM, Tina Gleisner says, she and her husband were bitten by the real estate bug.” They responded by investing in coastal properties in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and California, but what began as a hobby eventually because a passion and turned into the My Handyman of Rockingham County franchise.

…  Gleisner was honored last year by the Women’s Business Center and invited to present at the WBC’s 10th anniversary celebration. To read the full interview, Q&A with My Handyman owner …

• Ex-IBM executive turns handyman, By Michael McCord in the Portsmouth Herald, January 2006

You have to give Tina Gleisner credit. When she puts her mind to something, she does it. To wit: A few years ago, this longtime IBM executive and computer geek decided she was tired of “living on airplanes.”

She stopped living on airplanes, but what to do? For a go-getter and self-confessed “rule breaker” whose intriguing resume pretty much mirrors the birth and growth of the PC revolution for the business sector, Gleisner decided to slow down and set free her inner entrepreneur. Read the full article, Ex-IBM Executive …

• She’s My Handyman, Tina Gleisner leads a team of local techs ready to fix whatever’s broken, By Rachel Forest in the Portsmouth Herald, June 2004

Red shirts, black pants, logo cap, red and white van with a 32-foot ladder on top — it’s standard issue for a My Handyman technician. In My Handyman central, a buzzing network of computers, beeping walkie-talkies and constantly ringing phones in the home office of Tina Gleisner — who owns our area’s My Handyman franchise — keeps track of the technicians out in the field in the homes of Rockingham County clients in need of a fixit or two or three. For the full article, reprint of She’s My Handyman …