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- Hometown or Country
- Bexhill
- Relationship Status:
- Married
- What Are You Hoping To Gain From Joining Web Mums?
- Friends, business advice, business contacts (networking, marketing opportunities, knowledge
- A Little About Me
- I'm mum to D, 6 and J, 2. We live right on the coast, and I love writing, reading, and being out on the beach.
- A Little About My Business
- I write books and run a PR business. My latest book is Family Friendly Working (www.familyfriendlyworking.co.uk), for mums and dads who are looking for family friendly business ideas and info on flexible working rights. I have written a book for mumpreneurs about business promotion, A Guide to Promoting Your Business, which has a useful website full of free PR and business resources to accompany it, www.prbasics.co.uk.
For individual help to do your own PR, check me out at ACPR, www.acpr.co.uk. I started ACPR in 2003 after my daughter was born, and discovered the jov of working for myself - which has really led to the books too.
- Website:
- http://www.acpr.co.uk
- What Do You Aim To Achieve In The Next 12 Months?
- Get an agent for my book writing
- Favourite Reads
- I'm reading Anyone Can Do It right now - and wish I'd written it!
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- serendipity
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- Yes, I can't wait to get stuck in!
Antonia Chitty's Blog
New course for mums who want family friendly work
From the author of Family Friendly Working, inspiring ideas for making money when you have kids
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Posted on 3rd July 2008 at 7:30am —
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Getting back to work - tips and advice for mums
There are several things a mother can do to help get back to work. Gillian Nissim of WorkingMums.co.uk suggests:
Ø Find out what your rights are by looking online, and talk to friends who have requested flexible working
Ø Research your company’s policy on flexible working and find out the experience of others who have applied for it
Ø Before you go on maternity leave, work out the contact level and regularity you would like to maintain with your employer. Ask for things that would help make y… Continue
Posted on 2nd July 2008 at 1:00pm —
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Flexible Working: If you don’t ask, you don’t get
Posted on 1st July 2008 at 1:21pm —
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Running a competition on your website
A competition can be a great way to get new people to visit your site, but how do you make sure that you get genuine entries, and your competition meets UK law? I'm a member of Mumszone parenting forum which has a great section for parents running a business. On the forum, Chell of BabySigning store Chelltune pointed out these useful articles if you are running a competition. The… Continue
Posted on 26th June 2008 at 10:23am —
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WAHMs (Work at Home Mums) GET BOOST FROM NEW TAX ALLOWANCES
1,400 home businesses are started every week in the UK and ‘mum’ businesses contribute an estimated £4.4billion to the economy, and now HMRC are putting their weight behind the growing trend, with new tax breaks for people working at home.
New guidance in HMRC manuals, published on their website, contain examples of the level and nature of home expenses that can be claimed. There are two areas of particular interest: spe… Continue
Posted on 20th June 2008 at 10:06am —
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Working From Home! Is it a Real Job?
Of course it is, but do you ever get the impression that others don’t take it seriously? How many times do friends or family call for a chat? Or even turn up on your doorstep!
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Back to Basics in Online Marketing
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I am totally guilty of this at times, writing about RSS feeds and Blogs and just assuming that everyone knows what I am talking about. My aim is [...]
Have You Taken a Break Today?
It’s OK to take a break!
Yep – you heard me correctly – it’s ok to take a break. If you are not at the stage where you can outsource a lot of your work or you have people in your employ, then working your own business relies solely on your input and that is a [...]
Patience is a Virtue - Whatever!
I have a theory and I believe that I am on to something here……I’m certain that when you give birth to your first child you are awarded with an area in your brain called ‘additional patience’. This is a wonderful thing, as if we all had the same amount of patience we [...]
Dropshipping & Wholesale - How Does it Work?
Dropshipping is a great way to enable you to have an online store or to sell at auctions without having the hassle of storing all of the products. There are many companies out there nowadays who incorporate dropshipping as part of their service in addition to wholesale.
There isn’t normally a great deal of money to [...]
Can, Will & Do - not Can’t, Won’t & Don’t
These powerful words are what all successful individuals put into practice every day and these are the words that you too need to focus on if you want to be a success.
How many people are out there today or reading this now that think to themselves ‘I’d like my own business’ and then immediately follow [...]
Sarah Steel - Designer for Pumpkin Primrose
Interview with Sarah Steel
Designer for Pumpkinprimrose.co.uk
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Pumpkin Primrose is a sister team of designers who are based in a small whitewashed village in Andalucía, originally from London we moved here over 7 years ago and both have small children who love Spanish life.
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My name is Lyndsey, I have a product that I have designed, developed and now had produced which I want to market to the mother/toddler/green market. I would like to the product featured in a mother/toddler magazine and Nikki suggested you may be able to help. Count On It™ is an easy to use, food freshness label which takes the guesswork out of freshness at a glance, to help consumers make the most of the food they buy and waste less of it.
Count On It tracks how long food has been opened, so consumers are able to enjoy all of the product, secure in the knowledge that it is still fresh and safe to eat and subsequently reducing the amount of edible food which could have been thrown away. Food waste and safety is such a current topic which I need to capitilise, so any help or suggestions you may have will be greatly appreciated, for more information visit www.count-on-it.co.uk. I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards Lyndsey
Welcome! I love the beach also, there's nothing more relaxing than sitting on the beach looking at the water and listening to the waves.
Linda
I'm closer to Brighton myself - it's so nice to be near the coast but would rather live on it than near it!
Helen x
If you ever want to add anything to the site with linkbacks to yours - then just let me know as I have a seperate area for articles.
I really admire you for having a couple of books under your belt - it's something that I would love to do ......one day. I'm just waiting for someone to pop about 6 extra hours on to every day so that I can get everything done!!
Catch up with you soon - I'm off to get some PR tips from your website. :-)