My Story

Mumpreneur mistakes number 1

by Helen on June 22, 2009

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 [...]

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Is there a market in my gap?

by Helen on June 16, 2009

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A bit of an update…

by Helen on June 9, 2009

“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 [...]

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When I was pregnant with my first baby I was in a permanent, full time job. I fully intended to go back to this after six months of maternity leave. OK, I knew this wasn’t ideal but I felt I had no choice. I thought it would be tough for a few weeks but that [...]

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Thank you!

by Helen on May 30, 2009

Big, big thanks to everyone who has filled in my survey so far. There’s loads of really useful information there and it’s going to take me a little while to think through exactly where I go next with this business idea. In the meantime, it’s the weekend and I’m going to enjoy the sunshine…

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… and small business owners to tell me what they think of my new business idea. Click Here to take survey and you could get invited to a free training session as part of the pilot!

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Welcome!

by Helen on May 20, 2009

My first post on my new blog, how exciting! My aim is to use this blog to help me plan, research and launch my new business.  Also, to help me network online and face-to-face and to help me grow my own website. I’ve kept my previous business ideas close to my chest until I’ve been [...]

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