Do I need a business plan?

November 7, 2011
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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 [...]

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Be careful who your friends are

November 3, 2011
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The people we hang around with influence us more than we think. That’s because our perception of  what’s normal comes from the people around us. Hang around with struggling self-employed people who have  clients-from-hell and are working their butts off just to make minimum wage and you’d conclude that’s just the way that self-employed life [...]

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Twitter changes at Business Plus Baby

October 31, 2011
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This weekend I did something I’ve been procrastinating over for about eighteen months now. I switched Business Plus Baby’s Twitter account over from @HelenLindop to @Bizplusbaby. This feels like I’ve dropped back from over 3000 followers to…er…11! No wonder I’ve been procrastinating, eh? Actually,  I haven’t lost any followers and I’ll still be tweeting at [...]

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October’s Business Mums Blog Carnival is Live – and I need your opinion!

October 28, 2011
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This month’s carnival is a monster! No, not because it’s almost Halloween, but because this month we had double the number of entries we normally get! This month’s host Emma has very kindly done two carnival posts, one today and another next Friday, so your post has the best possible chance of being read and [...]

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I started a business with kids: Louise Villis of KidsDoTravel.co.uk

October 27, 2011
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Tell us a little about your business We offer a complete solution to travelling with children offering everything from practical advice to some very innovative ideas such as the inflatable BubbleBum car booster (the booster seat in a bag), not forgetting the all important fun games to entertain young (and old!) minds during the journey [...]

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From Tweet to Telegraph

October 24, 2011
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Proving that PR is possible on a tiny budget (in fact no budget at all!) Business Plus Baby guest contributor Frances Weir had her children’s book box featured in last week’s Telegraph Magazine, as the direct result of a Tweet… “I had read the ‘Children’s Notebook’ column in the magazine before and thought it was [...]

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Everywoman Conference: Take a friend and get a discount!

October 21, 2011

This year’s National Everywoman Conference is on the 1st of November at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London. (I’ve still got childcare issues so I’m missing out on conference season this year, otherwise I’d be there!) If you’d like to get a ticket for yourself and a friend for £95 + VAT, book your place [...]

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