It’s hard to believe, but it’s over three years since Mums The Boss’s first networking meeting in Bedford. (Well, perhaps not so hard to believe for me as I went along with my then 4-month-old baby….and she starts school this September!) Since then, Mums The Boss has grown across the UK and branches are still [...]
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Keeping on top of your finances is one of the keys to success as a small business owner. That’s easy to say but not so easy to do! Many of us are so busy with the day-to-day tasks like dealing with customers and suppliers that there isn’t much time left for accounting. We are often [...]
It’s January and everyone in the personal development world is urging you to set goals. I have to admit that every January, when I see the old chestnuts ‘SMART* goals’ and ‘New Year, New You’, my heart does sink a little. Some years I’m not ready to make any meaningful goals on January the 1st [...]
Even if you’ve never written a book before, you can (and should!) publish on Kindle. With millions of fans, low prices and the current buzz around the Kindle devices themselves, Kindle books are flying off the virtual shelves. So grab yourself a piece of Amazon’s amazing marketplace – and promote your business at the same [...]
When I looked into selling advertising space here on Business Plus Baby the first place I went was Google. Unfortunately, most of the information I found was way too advanced and technical for someone like me who was just starting out with web advertising. In the end I decide not to go down the advertising [...]
We often think of entrepreneurs as building big companies to making themselves richer. But last week I found this video that explains why innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs are critical to the wealth of society as a whole… The statistics are for the USA, but the theory is the same wherever you live in the world. [...]
Most mums don’t need to get a start-up loan (although that would be nice!) Instead, we tend to choose businesses that need very little start-up capital and fund them either from our savings or just keep feeding our profits back it the business. We don’t need a heavy-duty business plan to convince an investor to [...]
