Being a Mumpreneur

Running a Business without Having to Travel

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by Helen on April 14, 2011

For work at home mums, travel is the ultimate enemy as it will take up a huge amount of time and take you away from your child. Indeed, a day spent going to visit a client will force you to arrange child-care and break up your daily routine. This is the kind of hassle no [...]

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Work At Home Mums Around The World

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by Helen on April 4, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I had an email from Diona Moustri and Kalliopi Fountoulaki-Hanioti of Mammas Work at Home, a website for work at home mums in Greece: Starting a home based business or working from a home office are emerging choices for mothers who wish to spend more time with their family and [...]

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Nine Things About Me

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by Helen on March 18, 2011

The other day I was tagged by Nicki Cawood of Curly and Candid on the Three By Nine meme. This is a nice quick and easy one – all you have to do is give three answers to each of the nine questions, so here are mine! Three names I go by: Helen, Mummy, Hel [...]

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I Suffer From ‘The Doubt’ – Do You?

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by Helen on March 16, 2011

Erica Douglas posted an article on the Become a Mumpreneur blog this week about The Doubt. The Doubt is Erica’s name for the fear that you get when you try something new. What if you’re not good enough? What if it all goes wrong? What if you look a fool? I know what she means [...]

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Family Friendly Business For Sale

families recommend

by Helen on February 18, 2011

You might remember Business Plus Baby’s guest blogger Sarah Sharp? She’s the owner of Families Recommend, a UK based online family review site. Sarah’s post on how to run an information website was one of the most popular here  last year and still regularly brings in visitors to BPB. So I was really sad to [...]

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Is Working From Home Getting You Down?

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by Helen on January 24, 2011

Working from home sounds the perfect solution if you’re a working mum. You can save time on your commute (by reducing it to…er…30 seconds!), you can work flexibly around the kids and you can even work in your pyjamas. That’s all true, but there are downsides. It can be lonely, plus if you need to [...]

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Mumpreneur Louise Guinda is on TV!

Louise Guinda

by Helen on January 20, 2011

Business Plus Baby guest blogger Louise Guinda is on TV! Louise is the inventor of the Safe Dreams breathable cot wrap and she was being interviewed on Scottish national TV as part of a report on getting advice from Business Gateway. You can see Louise talking about Safe Dreams here. It’s great to see a [...]

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