How to build a business in your spare time
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How to build a business in your spare time

 

Juggling motherhood, employment and all of life’s other challenges can start you thinking about the practicality of starting your own business. Being able to work to your own timetable and not having to answer to a manager could definitely alleviate some of the pressures of being a working mother.

So, if starting your own business is a pursuit you’re giving serious thought to, here are a few tips to get your plans off to a strong start and guide you in the direction of success.

read a book a day
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No time to read? Here’s how you can read a book a day

Yes – we all know the excuses (reasons) why we can’t read. We are busy working, or sorting out the children, or too tired, or need to help someone in the house do something. But the truth is, reading doesn’t mean you have to stop everything you’re doing.

According to a recent YouGov survey, a staggering 4 million adults don’t read for pleasure. If you’re one of these statistics and want to change that, then audiobooks are the way forward.

Podcast: Sunshine through the rain – Lorena Oberg talks success after acrimonious divorce
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Podcast: Sunshine through the rain – Lorena Oberg talks success after acrimonious divorce

Divorce can be tough no matter how grown up you and your other half choose to be about it. But when it’s acrimonious and you don’t have a penny to your name, and you need to stay afloat so you can keep your children, what do you do? Well, start a business – of course!

How to not let your colleagues make you feel like a skiver
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How to not let your colleagues make you feel like a skiver

There’s nothing more irritating than doing your job (really well!), working your contracted hours and being made to feel like you’re doing something wrong because you’re leaving on time.

But how do you manage that when you’re colleagues are constantly making comments that make you feel like you’re letting the side down, or aren’t doing enough?

Five online tools you’re probably not using in your business, but should be
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Five online tools you’re probably not using in your business, but should be

When starting up your own business, it is important to take advantage of the wide range of online tools at your disposal. From comparison sites to cloud services, there are a multitude of services you can utilise to make your start-up more efficient and more profitable.

Here we look at five of the online tools all start-ups should be using.

Thinking of collaborating with another business? Here are some things to consider…
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Thinking of collaborating with another business? Here are some things to consider…

On paper, it sounds like a dream – you have your skill set and need someone with another area of experience and interest, and you’d like to work with them to reduce your costs.

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Five time wasters and how to cut them out of your life for good (Part 2)

If I had a pound for every time a working mum bemoaned how they wished there were more hours in the day, I’d be writing this from a palatial villa somewhere far away with iced cool drink in a tumbler.

Not that it’s always an invalid comment, sometimes, we could all genuinely do with more time to work through all the projects we need to complete.

Five time wasters and how to avoid them – part 1
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Five time wasters and how to avoid them – part 1

These days, it seems that everyone is trying to fit a week’s worth of work into a day. While it may look like the epitome of efficiency efficiency,  are you really making progress of just deceiving yourself?

Here are five time wasting activities you probably don’t even realise that you’re doing and how to avoid them.

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Homeworking: how we’ve become so dependant on it

Over the past decade there has been a 13% rise in the number of people working from home. The reasons vary, but it is the development of modern technology that has made it possible to work just as effectively as in the office.

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Two simple ways to boost your selling power overnight

There’s not much more demotivating than having poor or no sales when you start a new business. All the dreams you had conjured up if stick flying off your shelves (or out of the garden shed) suddenly start to look like it’s going to turn into a nightmare. But the truth is, if you’re planning to build your own business, you have to be ready for the challenges. If you give up at the first hurdle, you really aren’t giving your business the chance to succeed.

The breakup: how to end a client relationship
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The breakup: how to end a client relationship

There come a time in every relationship when people don’t always see eye to eye – marriages,  parent and child relationships…even business relationships.

When it’s your loved ones there are ways that you can express yourself that you can’t in a business relationship.