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!
Calling all mums in business. We want to hear your story if your business has been running for more than a year.
How did you start out? How did you fund your business? How have you managed to run your business and juggle the demands of family life?
Complete the short form fellow and we’ll share your story with output 105,000-plus mums.
More Britons are setting up in businesses in their spare time and from their bedroom, according to a survey released today.
According to their research there has been an increase of 34% of businesses being set up in spare time in the past 12 months. All of these so-called bedroom entrepreneurs revealed that they did so because starting a business is now easier, with costs a lot lower than a few years ago, thanks to being able to start up online.
Looking after children is a full-time job, so much credit goes out to business mums and mumpreneurs who regularly juggle looking after the kids with working from home.
If this is something you want to do and don’t know how to make working from home while looking after the kids work for you, here are some tips:
Married mum of two Rosemarie Mansfield, 32, runs Tilly & Tabitha – a personalised online jewellery store using genuine Swarovski elements with her sister Heather Brice.
She tells Motherswhowork.co.uk about the highs and lows and whether she has any regrets about leaving her job as a Deputy Manager of Ernest Jones the Jewellers to run the business.
Sarah Buchanan, 31, is mum to Hermione, four, and Eleanor, two in May. She runs Baby-Birth (www.baby-birth.com) and started the business after her own positive experience of giving birth. With her husband also running his own successful website, just how do they get the balance right?
Jo Shaw, 38, a mum of two girls, and a wife works part-time in marketing while running her online bakery supply store.
Find out how she juggles her family and work commitments while having fun making her business grow.
They say that friends and family and business don’t mix. But if you can get the basics right, it can be very successful…even with young children.
Isobel Thompson, 48, shares how she’s managed to get everyone from her husband to her teenage son, and her eight-year-old twin daughters involved in her business.
