Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
So, you’ve got a blog and it’s meant to be helping you build your brand and your credibility – but instead it’s starting to feel like a millstone around your neck because you’ve run out of time and ideas. Well don’t despair, because the Queen of Blogging, Natalie Lue, has some tips to help you [...]
While the jury may still be out on whether Google+ will be the next big social platform, you cannot deny that the power of being associated with Google is something that shouldn’t be dismissed lightly. People search on Google billions of times a day, so if you’re in business, then it would be a wise [...]
OK, so you’ve bought your ticket, jumped on board the Social Media train and you’re ready for a great journey. This is a positive step for you and the growth of your business. However there is one catch. The train is full to capacity. Everyone else is on the train too. But do you know [...]
In this guest post Heather Townsend looks at why the really savvy mumpreneurs are using both online and offline networking tools and techniques in their quest to generate referrals when networking. I’ve bet you’ve found, like me, that unless you have an enlightened group like Mums The Boss near you, business face-to-face networking and childcare responsibilities [...]
YOU are the ultimate selling point of your blog. Which can make you feel the pressure to be stand-up funny, or whip out your “jazz hands” and tap shoes and dance your way into readers’ affections. But you don’t have to. There are subtler ways to be endearing – and they all involve just being [...]
As if running a business around a family isn’t time consuming enough, you now have the added hassle of finding time to write your blog. Sometimes the inspiration and the material comes easily – but we’ve all had times when the ideas simply don’t flow and the days without posting turn into weeks and then [...]
Are you a Twitter virgin or an experienced Tweeter? Do you have a clear focus in mind as to why you are planning to or are using Twitter? Do you just tweeting aimlessly, in the hope that other Tweeters (and there are millions of them) will decide to follow you or like what you tweet [...]
By the time you read this post, we will be off on our holidays. Today both of us are going up to Derbyshire with our families to stay at Dove Farm. And this all came about when we started tweeting with @dovefarm last year on Twitter. But that’s not all. Coming with us is another friend we got [...]
You’ve heard the hype, maybe you’ve been seduced by the latest buzz of this social media or that, and suddenly everyone is an expert and can tweet, like, recommend, etc. Essentially people are talking to people as they always have, but they are talking more and faster and louder – so how to tap into [...]
As we have been running Networking events for over 2 years now, we have decided to share some of our experiences and produce a series of Networking Niblets to help you get more out of your networking. 3. Have Interesting Conversations One of the things that makes you remember the people you meet at networking [...]
Continuing her series of articles on the Art of Blogging, Natalie Lue tackles the subject of self-censorship and blogging. If you’ve ever had the experience of thinking twice about something that you want to write/publish on your blog, you’ve experienced self-censorship which arises out of your fear of how others will perceive or react to it. While [...]
This guest post is written by Erica Douglas who, working alongside Antonia Chitty as ACE Inspire, offer a range of courses to allow you to learn key skills and strategies to see your business grow by giving you the information and skills needed to unleash the power of the internet Do you have trouble generating ideas [...]
Continuing her series of articles on the Art of Blogging, Natalie Lue takes you step by step through the process of deciding whether a blog really is the right method of communication to help your business. In business, it can feel like everybody is using Facebook, Twitter, blogging and a host of other social media options for their business, [...]
So how did you all get on with the first tasks from last month? Easy huh? Bet they got you thinking though. The trouble (or even benefit) of any aspect of internet marketing is that the internet constantly changes. So you need to keep up with the times to make sure whatever you are doing [...]
At the start of the month, in our newsletter, we launched the first of our Monthly Internet Marketing Workouts, kindly brought to us by Sally Walker of Walker Media Labs. By her own admission Sally is a bit of a geek! She likes pressing buttons, messing about with servers, developing new features for applications such as WordPress, [...]
