Business Ideas For Mums

Many work at home mums would love to earn a living as a freelance writer. But if you think the best way to earn an income as a writer is to spend nine-to-five writing novels, think again…. With the book publishing industry going through massive changes due to electronic books, the Kindle, IPads and blogging, [...]

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One of my weaknesses is my talent for over-complicating things. Whenever I have an idea, it usually expands into a massive project that would take me years to work through. And that’s not good while I’m working part-time around children. Like many mums of small children, my life is very much online these days because [...]

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Five Reasons To Buy a Franchise

Pippa Highfield

by Helen on January 10, 2011

Many family friendly businesses can be started either by buying a franchise or from scratch. It can be tough deciding which way to go, which is why it’s great that today’s guest blogger, Pippa Highfield, is going to give us her own reasons for buying a franchise 4 years ago. Pippa is the Bedford editor [...]

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This is the second part of Karen Gunton’s article on starting a photography business. Karen runs her own photography business www.smileplaylove.com and has a blog that helps mums start their own businesses called Build A Little Biz. If you didn’t catch part one, you can read it here:  Business Ideas for Mums: Photographer (part 1). [...]

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I’d like to introduce today’s guest blogger, Karen Gunton. Karen runs her own photography business www.smileplaylove.com, in Adelaide, Australia, which is a very long way from where I live in England! We met (virtually) because we both own blogs that help mums start businesses – Karen’s is called Build A Little Biz and is great, [...]

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Running an Online Shop: Pros and Cons

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by Helen on July 27, 2010

Today I’m introducing my first ever male guest blogger Trevor Ginn of Hello Baby!  Dadpreneur Trevor is going to give us the basics on running an online shop. It would be great to have a few more blokes around here, so if you’re a dad who started a business to spend more time with your [...]

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This is part 2 of a post by Sarah Sharp of familiesrecommend.co.uk. You can read part 1 of How to run an information-based website here. Adding information submitted by others to the website One thing that people expect of the Internet is that everything happens instantaneously! If you receive user content and  moderate it before [...]

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