Pay off your debt. Do what you love.

September 21, 2011
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I want to tell you about You vs Debt, an e-course which launched this week. I already have a promotion on at the moment for my e-course Earn What You Deserve as a Mumpreneur (save over 30% if you buy before 30th Sept), so why I am I telling you about someone else’s course? Well, [...]

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Will you be ready to take your clients’ money this Christmas?

September 20, 2011
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You could make more money in the next few months that at any other time of the year. And that doesn’t just apply to businesses selling gifts, either. Christmas is the party season so we want to look good (health, fashion, beauty products), we want to entertain family and friends (food, party supplies, TVs and [...]

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September’s Business Mums Blog Carnival is live!

September 19, 2011
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It’s that time in the month where you’ve got a great excuse to put your feet up and grab a coffee…the Business Mums Blog Carnival is live! Head over to Become a Mumpreneur to read posts from everything from sewing and breakfast to burnout and making money from blogging! Big thanks to Antonia, Erica, Carol [...]

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National Insurance for self-employed mums: Claiming back Class 2 contributions

September 19, 2011
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This is the third in the incredibly popular series of posts by Frances Weir of bigbooklittlebookcardboardbox.co.uk. Frances and I are on a mission to help self-employed mums get the money they should be entitled to. It’s very easy to miss out on maternity allowance because you have a Small Earnings Exemption certificate – many mums [...]

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Are you wondering if you could start a business?

September 16, 2011
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Are you wondering… I could offer a better service than that / I wonder why there isn’t there a service for that? Why doesn’t anyone sell them, I wonder if could source and sell them. I love making them, I wonder if people would buy them? Do these sound familiar to you? Do you find [...]

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Quick blog post ideas: Online business basics

September 14, 2011
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(This is the eighth article in my Online business basics series. You can find links to the other posts in the series on this page: Online business basics) Blogging is great for online marketing – the steady stream of fresh content keeps both your readers and the search engines happy! The trouble is that sooner [...]

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Simplicity and starting from where you are now

September 12, 2011
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I’ll admit it, I’ve been suffering from blogger’s block lately. When I first started Business Plus Baby there were hardly any books or resources for mums wanting to start businesses. In fact that was the reason WHY I started BPB. Now, just over two years on, there are tons of resources for parents in business [...]

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