After last week's light bulb moment (see Mumpreneur mistakes number 1) I've been working through 'Finding your perfect work' by Paul and Sarah Edwards. It's a much bigger book than I expected! And it's full of worksheets, which will take me a little time to work through, but I'm hoping it'll be time well spent. [...]
June 2009
I’ve researched quite a few business ideas since my daughter was born just 14 months ago and while I wait for the right one for me, I thought I’d share what I’ve learned. First up are direct selling and party plans. What is it? Direct selling is selling a product for commission on a self-employed [...]
Excellent article on how to avoid guilt as a mumpreneur – How to escape the guilt trap. The rest of the Mums The Boss blog is well worth reading too!
Remember in my last post I said I had a few more Mumpreneur ideas on my drawing board? Well, I was playing around with one of these (was there a market for it? How would I get clients? How long would it take before I got an income from it? And so on). I felt [...]
My background is in training, mostly IT training. So I thought there would be a a good opportunity to bring the online training I’ve delivered in big organisations to small businesses. A few weeks ago I asked solopreneurs and small business owners to take my survey to see if there really was a market for [...]
My maternity leave was coming to an end and I’d arranged a six month contract back with the employer I’d worked for before my daughter was born. I was going to use my spare time in that that six months to research and launch my new business. That was the plan anyway. Two weeks before [...]
“New mum returns to work – how it was for me, part 2″ is still in the pipeline, I’ve not been too well over the last week . Fortunately it’s nothing to worry about, just generally feeling rubbish due to being in late pregnancy. I’ve started to analyse the results of my online training survey [...]
