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Starting a business may seem like a daunting prospect, but do you want to live wondering “what if?”.
Find out why you should bite the bullet and start a business:
Yesterday, we looked at Facebook Marketplace and how to use it to sell your products. Today, we want to show you how to get started with some step-by-step instructions.
Every time I get an email that says: ‘Sent from iPhone’ it makes me cringe! Especially if it’s from a business person.
With the school summer holidays starting (for some children it has already started!), all the juggling and activities you’ll be doing to keep the children entertained will likely have a huge impact on your working week – especially if you’re a mumpreneur.
Trying to create an ebook is something that most authors want to do but they think that you will need to have a big budget, but times have changed and it’s actually a lot cheaper than you think.
The simplest ebook is just a PDF – its as simple as that. Its an electronic document that makes it easy to share with thousands of people and they will pay a fee to read it.
People create ebooks for various reasons, these days, and you will need to first determine what your main purpose of creating yours is – is it to increase your newsletter subscription rates? Is it to educate others about a particular subject, or is just to publicise your brand?
A website without any visitors can be very demotivating. The main goal for most businesses with an online presence would be to try and get as many visitors as possible. This can be very easy for some while it can be an impossible task for others.
If you’re feeling a website visitor drought, the problem really lies in your strategy and the things that you write about. Is it worth reading? Is it something that people will click on if they see a mention on Facebook? Will they be happy that they read that article?
Here are three things to consider when trying to get more website visitors:
One of the biggest problems that people have when it comes to making the most of the working day is that they simply have bad time management. This is something that hinders many mums from ever achieving their full potential success in life and something truly needs to be done to correct that.
Most people will admit that they have trouble with this problem but successful people will talk about how they are able to master the art of managing their time, squeezing more ‘time’ into the normal 168-hour week.
There are two things that you can do to manage your time better and to use your 24 hours to the fullest:
The juggling never stops, and the tiredness and wishing there were more hours in the day. So how do you get more done as a busy working mum? How can you fit even more into an already busy day?
The truth is, it isn’t always easy plain sailing – there will be times when you feel like you’re so busy that your feet don’t even touch the ground. But, how you manage your situation can make the difference.
Here are seven tips that can help you get more done:
Are you getting ready for the summer sales slump? If your business isn’t seasonal or doesn’t peak in summer, there’s a good chance that you’ll have to work a little harder for your money in summer.
School holidays and people going away to get some summer sunshine, or just a break in general means you need to find a way to get the customers and website visitors you have spend more.
If surveys and site traffic from social networking sites are anything to go by, we now spend a significant amount of our time on websites like Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook…and so do our customers.
The majority of business owners now use social media to grow and promote their businesses – from the mumpreneur online store to big global brands, they’re all doing it.
If you want to tap into social media successfully, it’s therefore essential that you know how to effectively use effectively so you don’t waste your time updating your Facebook page, and sending out tweets when no one really has any interest in reading them.
Here are the five social media tips to get you started and to improve the results that even experienced social media butterflies can gleam:
If I had a fiver every time someone said “it’s only a little hobby” I’d be a rich investor on Dragons Den!
Hobbies are often a goldmine that people just cast to the side as something they do for themselves, or help friends an relatives out with and that’s it. But if you’re looking for a way to make some extra money, why not earn it doing something you love doing?
Here are 10 hobbies that you can turn into a business or use to make extra money:
1. Organising – call it obsessive compulsive if you like and laugh off your organising skills, but use them wisely and you could be laughing all the way to the bank!
Don’t take your skills for granted – people will pay (a lot) to have someone come into their homes and businesses and organise things for them – wardrobes, filing you name it!
Now, more than ever, mums around the world are taking control of their income and starting a business.
On Motherswhowork.co.uk, we’ve seen hundreds of success stories, but one of the key themes is the ability to bite the bullet and go for it.
The following start-up road map comprises the fundamentals you need to know to set up an online business, or a business that has an online presence.
Follow the roadmap and you’ll be well equipped to start your online business, or start to make improvements and grow an existing online business.
N.B. You must be a member of the Mothers Who Work Club to view the videos – membership costs just £5 a month, and you can cancel at any time.
Learn how to manage your time and improve your business productivity so you can run your online business effectively.
School holidays are typical times of the year when website traffic goes down – with juggling the demands of the children at home and just not having enough time or energy to browse, the impact hits everyone, so don’t get despondent if you notice that your website traffic suddenly takes a dive!
The main goal for most internet marketers would be to try and get as many visitors as they can. And yes – if you have an online business that you are promoting online, you fall into the ‘internet marketer’ bracket, too!
Driving more traffic can be very easy for some people, but for others it can be an impossible task – especially if you don’t really know what you’re doing.
The problem really lies in your strategy and the things that you write about on your website. Is it worth reading? Is it something that people will click on if they read the excerpt on Facebook?
On the back of the success of our sister set, www.babyonboardbadge.co.uk, we know that selling online is a lucrative way for anyone to make money. And for mums, it can give the earning potential and flexibility that many crave.
Is this your dream, too? Or maybe you already have an online store but aren’t making the money you know you can and should be making…
Once you’re successful enough to establish your own business online, you should move on to coming up with ways on how to increase your sales overnight. Here are two quick and effective tips to help you seeing a change in your fortunes:
Did you know that you can claim tax on your utility bills if you work from home? Did you know that you can claim tax on that mobile phone you took out just for business?
Whether you’re self-employed or own a limited company, thee are tax breaks that many of us are unsure of the legality of claiming, or don’t know at all.
Listen to this podcast with mum, accountant and partner of Wellers Accountants Norma Stewart to find out what you should be claiming, and start clawing back something from the tax man in time for the January online tax return deadline.
