Mothers Who Work: Tips, Advice on Work, Starting A Spare-Time Business, Family and Wellbeing
For mums who are SERIOUS about making money
As a working mother, you know the pressures of trying to keep up in the working world while also making sure your family is well taken care of. You know what it’s like to work long hours and feel under-appreciated. Yet your commitment to family keeps you pressing on day after day.
The makers of ‘One Born Every Minute’ and ‘The Hotel’, Dragonfly Film and Television, are working on a new TV series about raising children and family life.
They are looking for families who would like to take part in a series about the ups and downs of being a parent, which will show what raising a family is really like – that it’s chaotic, exhausting and frustrating, as well as joyous, hilarious and fun.
Fancy yourself as the next best-selling author? Or maybe you have an idea for a book but have had little joy getting past the commissioning edit it’s desk? Perhaps you’re an expert in your field and just want to bypass the whole publisher’s route and get straight in front of a buying audience.
Whatever your reason, publishing your book on Amazon is a lot easier than you think – and it won’t cost a small fortune either, once you know how!
When you’ve spent time out of work making the decision to return to work can be a daunting prospect. You may have tackled the demands of being a parent, a 24-hour job – but the office is a different game.
You may be worried that there are younger, cheaper, ‘more employable’ competitors out there fighting for the same jobs. Someone who’s fresh out of university and up to date on the industry news and trends is unbeatable, right? That’s not technically true.
Are you looking for a way to make money without leaving your home because of childcare? Have you thought about taking surveys?
While they aren’t the most glamorous, you can take surveys in your own time, and even on your mobile phone, and be making money wherever you are.
Getting desperate to find a job can mean that many people apply for jobs on the off chance of getting an interview, during which they can blag their way through it. However, this makes the work of sifting through application forms and CVs a much lengthier process for recruiters, and scrapping poor applications and CVs becomes a nuisance…the same as you get irritated by persistent junk mail!
You could also be shooting yourself in the foot, because the same employer may advertise a job that’s relevant to your skills and experience later on, and they may remember your application to another (irrelevant) job and dismiss your application or CV based on that.
Yesterday, we featured our new partner Surveys.co.uk and the three campaigns that they are working on. Today, we want to share some don’ts when it comes to joining an online survey opportunity – we’re taking the pain out of learning the hard way.
So, here goes:
Job interviews are an opportunity for you to prove that you’re the best person for the job – and it’s also an opportunity for recruiters to check anything that doesn’t add up. And for many mums, this may be a gap in your employment history.
Many people get anxious when a job interviewer starts checking the dates on your CV and asking questions about any gaps in employment. For mums, this is almost inevitable because so many choose to take time out to raise young children before returning to work later.
Keeping children entertained at the evenings and the weekend during term term can be a challenge in itself. But when it comes to the school holidays, the pressure is definitely on!
Watch the following video to discover five apps you can use at home, or when you’re out an about to stop the kids climbing the walls:
Working from home is a great option for many mums. It tends to be a lot more flexible than a typical nine-to-five job and allows parents to spend more time with their little ones.
If you do want to go it alone, however, it’s important to create an adequate workspace and make health and safety a top priority. You might not have an office manager to whip you into shape, but there are plenty of things you can do to stay safe – and even improve your wellbeing.
Marketing is all about showing your potential customers why they are going to buy your product or service when there are so many competitors doing a similar thing.
That is the basic principle behind marketing, and with that clear objective in mind you can move forward and put together a strategy.
Prime minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg yesterday confirmed that working parents who each earn less than £150,000 will qualify for childcare tax breaks worth up to £1,200 a year for each of their children from 2015, while their stay-at-home counterparts will get nothing.
Despite recent changes at Yahoo! By the hands of CEO Marissa Mayer requiring remote workers to come in house or leave, and further comments by Vogue Head Alexandra Shulman, flexible working can be successful, and if you’re a manager who is managing someone who doesn’t work in the office all the time, or at all, it isn’t always easy and it requires advance planning.
Here are some tips to make it as successful as possible:
The joy of a new baby is certainly special and something that all new parents experience. However, sleep deprivation is also part of having a new baby and new parents notoriously get very little sleep, if any at all. It can be hard enough when you’re on maternity leave and staying home with your baby, but if you still have a sleep battle on your hands when you return to work,MIT can be quite gruelling.
Fortunately, there are some strategies and tips to help working mums get some sleep when to keep your sanity.
No one said it was going to be easy, but if you want to have your cake and eat it as a working mum, you need to dust yourself off and prepare yourself emotionally, mentally and financially because there may be a few hiccups along the way when you return to work after taking maternity leave.
Being a working mum can be fulfilling and if you can get everything in place before going back to work, it will be a much easier transition that you probably thought.
Here are some tips for a stress and tear free transition (or as close to one as possible!):
Work when you want, choose who you work with and for and name your price…these are some of the benefits of being your own boss as a freelance or consultant.
Watch this video tutorial to see how you can set yourself up doing just that, and find out how to get paying clients beating your door down for your services.
With the school Easter holidays just around the corner, many families are looking for getaways for the family – with the mother-in-law in tow!
It seems that despite the stereotypical jokes and jibes more than 50% of people would happily go on holiday with their mother-in-law.
There are hundreds of direct selling companies that offer work at home mums the ability to make money and stay home with the children…it’s just a matter of finding the best product that fits your interest, pasion and provides the best financial package for your needs.
When you work in direct sales you are an independent contractor for a company – your role is to sell their products or services, which you then get a commission for selling. We touch on in it our guide Affiliate Marketing: Selling Other People’s Products but this article will give you some more tips.
These days, employers want to get as much value for money as possible – and often that will mean more work, longer hours for less pay.
If you’re a woman, you probably know that there is a huge gender pay gap as it is, and effectively, you ‘stop getting payed’ around October when your annual salary is compared to your male counterparts.
Having a website is all about getting the right traffic to buy your product or service. Your website needs to be able to attract that traffic – and the right type of traffic. SEO is a way to do this, and most of it you can do for free.
This video tutorial will give you the insights you need to understand SEO and apply it to your website – or pay someone else to do it for you, without feeling like they are speaking another language!