Posted inFoodie Fridays
Chorizo and olive pasta bake
Ingredients
- 400g pasta
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 crushed garlic cloves
- 1 tsp paprika and 1 tsp thyme
Posted inFoodie Fridays
Nelsons Mini Fab Fish Pie
Ingredients (serves 4)
- 400g potatoes, peeled and chopped
- 100g carrots, peeled and chopped
- A knob of butter
- 2 tbsp milk
Illegal pyramid schemes and how to tell the difference between them and legitimate businesses
Hands up if you know or have known of at least one Avon lady? Somehow when you see that brochure, you know exactly what to expect.
Did you know that Avon and other businesses like it (Virgin at Home, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Kleeneze…) are all network marketing businesses?
How to spring clean your finances
In times of austerity just about every savvy mum is looking for ways to claw back money and use it elsewhere, or save for those rainy days. It’s dull, boring, and sometimes a bit disheartening when you look at the cost of living your life and having a family to look after, but if you don’t take the bill by the horns, no one else can do it for you…
Here are three quick tips to help you deck utter your finances:
Free course for childminders from HM Revenue
Are you a childminder? Would you like help with understanding tax, National insurance and learn how to keep your financial records in order?
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is offering self-employed childminders free online webinars to help with tax issues.
You can watch and participate in the live webinars from you laptop or mobile phone (if it’s a smartphone).
Posted inA mix Family life
Free your family from secondhand smoke
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.
Posted inA mix How to look for a job
How to win the job war against young, cheaper graduates
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.
Money for your time: why surveys are an easy win for mums looking to make some extra cash
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.
Posted inA mix Work and career tips and advice
Health and safety advice for work at home mums
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.
Posted inA mix Business ideas What's in the news?
Marketing: why your business needs it
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.
Posted inCareers Coach Blog Family life
How every working mum can make returning to work after maternity leave as easy and stress-free as possible
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!):
Posted inA mix Family life What's in the news?
How to keep an eye on the kids while working from home
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:
Five mistakes even smart working mums make and how to a avoid them
Every mum tries their best, but sometimes circumstances can seem to take over our lives and then caps sets in.
Here are five red flags to watch out for, and tips to change their impact on your life:
Posted inStarting and running your business
Marketing and advertising: what is the difference, anyway?
Are you new to the business world and getting confused with all this talk about having to do marketing and advertising for your business? Fear not, this article will help to demystify the two.
While the two sound similar, advertising and marketing are not the same thing.
Thinking of taking on an extra job? Read this first
Are you thinking about taking on a second job to bring more money home? Do you work already and have young children? Have you worked out how much time you actually have to take on another job – with the responsibility of juggling a family?
Here are some things to consider before you take on the extra job, so that you don’t end up adding more stress with no gain actual financial to your life:
Posted inFamily life
The 15-minute rule and how it can make a working mum’s life easier
We all know what it’s like when you come home with the children having picked them up from nursery or school and you know that you’ve got a mountain of work that you need to get through.
It’s not unusual to shove a quick snack in front of them and get straight back into the work asking for “10 minutes” to just fire off a quick email.
Posted inA mix Business building
What is professional indemnity insurance and why is it necessary?
We live in a world where compensation claims have entered the popular psyche. This puts the individual and more prevalently the business owner at great risk of being sued. Some of these claims may be entirely justifiable due to gross professional negligence whereas others may be more innocuous; the point is that they all need to be legislated against in terms of a decent Professional Indemnity Insurance policy.
Is going to work making you broke? Find out how with this infograph
Do you feel like a dog who’s chasing its tail when it comes to work and money? Working all the available hours and still come short in the money stakes?
Posted inA mix How to run a successful website
Three ways collaborative working helps your business succeed
It’s been an industry buzzword for a couple of years now but collaborative working seems to have exploded in popularity in the last year; with new co-working centres being set up in Bath and London and in many other cities across the UK.
Two simple ways to boost the sales of your online store overnight
If I had a pound for online stores with the perfect products but the poorest website structures that I’ve come across I’d be sipping ice tea on a beach somewhere…all year round.
If you have an online business, you have to come up with strategies to help you generate more sales than your competitors…and what better way to do that than by making those customers who are already on your website spend more.