Don’t forget to enter this month’s Business Mums’ Blog Carnival, hosted by Antonia over at Family Friendly Working.
This is a great chance to get new readers for your blog, plus get a backlink and some comments too. Check out my post ‘Introducing the Business Mums’ Blog Carnival‘ for everything you need to know about how the carnival works.
Please email posts to antonia (at) familyfriendlyworking (dot) co.uk by 19th February and the carnival will be posted on the 25th February.
Here it is, the first Business Mums’ Blog Carnival! And what an amazing response! Thanks to everyone who contributed and everyone who has offered to be future hosts.
(If you want to know more about the blog carnival and how to join in, all the details are here: Introducing the Business Mums’ Blog Carnival.)
I’ve had a few tricky decisions to make this week. Such as should I include posts with reviews? What do our readers actually want to read? After a bit of a think, I decided to keep the rules down to a minimum and just go with the flow – well, for this month at least.
Lots of fabulous posts came in giving advice on running a better business. First up we have Karen Sher, founder of Musical Minis, who shares her tips for mums who have their own business. Karen’s been in business for twenty years, so I could certainly learn a thing or two from her! Iveta Tancheva of Mums Like You has a useful post if you’re thinking of getting revenue from online advertising.
Antonia Chitty of Family Friendly Working talks about how being a single mum can actually make women more enterprising. Very inspiring. Ovcr at Hire My Parents you’ll find a post explaining how to get your blog posts to work harder for you. Sam and Helen at Mums The Boss give some handy tips on PR and Sam Thewlis of Mumazing give us her business writing tips.
There’s huge variety in the businesses that mums run. Claire Willis of SnugBaby tells us about baby wearing and Toniann Harwood talks about the history behind Knot Just Jig‘s toy Noah’s Arks. Meanwhile Independant midwife Valerie Gommon tells us about the challenges of doing her job in the snow. And for something completely different, you can read why Tracey-Jane Hughes is inspired by cake (she’s in the bra business!).
Some of us contributed posts with a focus on family. Andrea Daly of the Accidental Business Mum relaxes with her Wii after a tough week. I’ve listed my top eight tips for saving time on household tasks (it would have been ten, but I had to clean the kitchen!). Becky Goddard-Hill, author of ‘How To Afford Time Off With Your Baby‘ has some brillient tips for saving money and Maggy Woodley of Red Ted Art shares her tips for potty training.
Finally, Emma Warren of Portfolio Directors reminds us to take some time to look around us.
Next month…
Next month’s carnival will be over at Family Friendly Working. Email posts to antonia (at) familyfriendlyworking (dot) co.uk by Monday 19th February and the carnival will be posted on the 25th February.
Each month, a different business mum blogger will be hosting the blog carnival, listing the best business mum blog posts that month. If you're a business mum with a blog, you can submit your own favourite post of that month to the carnival.
Why? Well, it creates traffic, links and comments for your blog as well as sharing expertise around the business mum community. We're looking for posts that add value in some way, so maybe they inspire, inform or make us smile. It's OK to talk a little about what you do (we're all in business after all) but a post that's just a sales pitch isn't going to be much of a read.
And if you fancy being a host, please send an email to helen (at) business plus baby (dot) com.
*Update* I'm allocating hosts to months on a first-come-first-served basis so apologies if you've offered to host and I've not got back to you yet.
I'm getting a lot of offers from people who want to host and I don't really want to start allocating hosts beyond the end of 2010 just yet! Feel free to offer to be a host anyway as I'll keep a reserve list if I get more hosts than there are months left in the year.
Email a link to your post to the carnival host for that month – see the list below…
Don't forget to read other people's posts and comments when the carnival is published. The more comments our blogs get, the more popular our blogs look to new readers!
January 2010 – www.businessplusbaby.com
Email posts to helen (at) business plus baby (dot) com by the end of Friday 22nd Jan and the carnival will be posted on Mon 25th Jan
February 2010 – www.familyfriendlyworking.co.uk
Email posts to antonia (at) familyfriendlyworking (dot) co.uk by Monday 19th February and the carnival will be posted on the 25th February.
March 2010 – www.mumstheblog.co.uk
Email posts to info (at) mumstheboss (dot) co.uk by 13th March and the carnival will be posted on the 15th March.
April 2010 – www.selfemployedmum.co.uk
Email posts to contact AT selfemployedmum.co.uk by 15th April and the carnival will be posted on 19th April.
May 2010 – www.theefficiencycoach.co.uk
Email posts to heather AT theefficiencycoach.co.uk by 24th May and the carnival will be posted on 30th May.
June 2010 – www.ivyhouseinteriors.co.uk
Email posts to sarah AT ivyhouseinteriors.co.uk by 18 June and the carnival will be published on 22nd June.
July 2010 – www.mumazing.co.uk
(email and dates to follow)
August 2010 – littlesheep-learning.blogspot.com
(email and dates to follow)
September2010 – www.littlestuff.co.uk/blog
(email and dates to follow)
October 2010 – www.sizzlingscience.co.uk
Email posts to info (at) sizzlingscience (dot) co.uk by end of Monday 11th October and the carnival will be posted on Monday 18th October
November 2010 – www.andreadaly.com
(email and dates to follow)
December 2010 – www.redtedart.com
Email posts to maggy (At) familywoodley (dot) com by the end of Friday 24th Dec and Carnival will be posted by Friday 31st Dec.
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