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It’s the Business Mums’ Blog Carnival for June!

June 13, 2010
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Would you like more traffic to your blog, plus more links and more comments? How about a chance to network online around the business mum community? It’s free and will take you just a couple of minutes. (The sparkly bikini is optional…) Then join this month’s Business Mums’ Blog Carnival! Here’s how it works. Each [...]

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11 Top Tips For Business Mums from Karen Sherr of Musical Minis

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Last week Karen Sherr told us how she started her business, Musical Minis. Today she gives us her eleven top tips for running a business as a mum. 1. Research the market and competition. 2. Start small. Let the business grow as and when you can cope with expansion. 3. Have a clear idea what [...]

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‘Mumpreneur’: Love It Or Loathe It?

May 28, 2010
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At first, I was happy to call myself a mumpreneur. After all, it is a combination of 'mum' and 'entrepreneur' and I'd be proud to call myself either. It meant I was stepping off the career treadmill and doing my own thing. Then I discovered that other mums in business didn't like the word. When [...]

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I Started A Business With A Baby – Kayte Judge of Good Things

May 24, 2010
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My business is just a little younger than my two-year old son, Jim When I first set out my stall I primarily offered corporate social responsibility (CSR) support to micro and small businesses.  Small businesses annually give more to CSR causes than big business every year– but they rarely harness the benefits in the same [...]

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Need Help Promoting Your Business Online?

May 12, 2010

Then take a look at The Mumpreneur's Guide to Online Business Success.  This new programme being launched next month by Antonia Chitty  and Erica Douglas. Antonia runs the blog Family Friendly Working and is author of The Mumpreneur Guide. You might know Erica as  Little Mummy and Little Mumpreneur. So these ladies really do know [...]

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Inspirational Business Mum: Vikki Horner of Maths Extra

May 11, 2010

Today, Vikki Horner of Maths Extra tells us how her daughter Charlotte inspired her to start a business to help children with special needs. My business is a labour of love My daughter Charlotte has Down Syndrome and wasn’t ‘getting it’ in the classroom. So I developed a new method for learning how to tell [...]

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New Business Mums’ Networking Group in Warwickshire

May 10, 2010

If you're near Coventry, don't miss the launch of the Warwickshire branch of the  Mum's The Boss networking group.  The first meeting will be held on Monday 24th May at the Alan Higgs Centre, Allard Way, Coventry, CV3 1HW from 09.30-11.30. Host Amanda Farren (of Ella Announcements, Kiddy Canvas, The Baby Fair and The Mumpreneur [...]

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Getting moving again after maternity leave. (I’m Still Working On It…)

April 29, 2010
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It’s been a very long time since I last did a post about how I’m getting on with my new business. It was 1st December in fact! It’s not that I haven’t been busy. It’s just that I haven’t  actually finished anything, so there hasn’t been much to talk about. I don’t know about you, [...]

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