5 must-have time management tips for mompreneurs

December 13, 2011

Today I’ve got a guest post for you from Meagan Visser, business coach for creative people. Over to you, Meagan! Hello. My name is Meagan. I’m a wahm & a recovering multi-tasker. Okay, too AA meetingish, I know. My point is that most of us out there who have creative businesses, whether we’re a WAHM, [...]

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December’s blog carnival is live!

December 11, 2011
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It’s the last Business Mums Blog Carnival of the year, so grab yourself a mince pie, take a break from that wrapping and head over to Cambridge Business Mums Club to take a look Thanks to this month’s host, Ally Pinney, for putting it together. If you’d like to join in next year, you can [...]

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Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Your Adverts

December 8, 2011
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Today’s post is by Tim Freed, editor of Toddle About magazine. Running a magazine is a great way to see the best and the worst in advertising practice, and believe me we’ve seen both! Here are our Top 5 Mistakes and how you can learn from them to design great adverts and generate plenty more [...]

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Working from home with toddlers around: how on earth do you do it?

December 5, 2011
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Question: I’m at the research stage of setting up a small business while I look after my two toddlers. I  work most evenings once they have gone to bed but I’m also trying to fit bits in in the day. I feel I’m not giving my children the time I should as I’m distracted by [...]

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Desperate Artwives: Mothers who create art behind closed doors

December 1, 2011
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Being a working mum means that anything other than earning a living and caring for children is usually pushed aside. At least that’s the picture for many of us. Yet having young children so often brings about a burst in creativity. Perhaps it’s the shift in our priorities, the fresh perspective that children bring or [...]

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Business Mums Blog Carnival for December

November 29, 2011
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Whoa, it’s that time again!  If you’ve got a business blog, why not join in the December Business Mums Blog Carnival and get yourself more readers and comments? (If it doesn’t seem long since November’s carnival, you’re right. The carnivals late in the year are squeezed closer together so we avoid the Christmas period.) You [...]

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Get 90% off courses from the most respected online entrepreneurs (plus my interview with Man vs Debt!)

November 28, 2011
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For the next 72 hours, you can grab e-courses by top online entrepreneurs for 90% less than their full price in the Only72 Sale. This isn’t your usual internet marketing hype, either. All of these course are for sale at full price on their owners websites now. I grabbed the first ever Only 72 pack [...]

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