Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
YOU are the ultimate selling point of your blog. Which can make you feel the pressure to be stand-up funny, or whip out your “jazz hands” and tap shoes and dance your way into readers’ affections. But you don’t have to. There are subtler ways to be endearing – and they all involve just being [...]
I won’t lie – this year we have been suffering from what I can only describe as Bloggers Fatigue. After more than 2 years blogging I guess we’ve lost some of our sparkle and enthusiasm for blogging. And as anyone who has suffered the same will know, once you lose your blogging momentum it can [...]
As if running a business around a family isn’t time consuming enough, you now have the added hassle of finding time to write your blog. Sometimes the inspiration and the material comes easily – but we’ve all had times when the ideas simply don’t flow and the days without posting turn into weeks and then [...]
Continuing her series of articles on the Art of Blogging, Natalie Lue tackles the subject of self-censorship and blogging. If you’ve ever had the experience of thinking twice about something that you want to write/publish on your blog, you’ve experienced self-censorship which arises out of your fear of how others will perceive or react to it. While [...]
We’ve had some new ideas for Mum’s The Blog this year, one of them being a new kind of Blog Carnival for Business Mums. Josie at Sleep is for the Weak has been running an incredibly popular Writing Workshop, with weekly writing prompts, for well over a year while Helen, from Business Plus Baby, launched [...]
This guest post is written by Erica Douglas who, working alongside Antonia Chitty as ACE Inspire, offer a range of courses to allow you to learn key skills and strategies to see your business grow by giving you the information and skills needed to unleash the power of the internet Do you have trouble generating ideas [...]
Continuing her series of articles on the Art of Blogging, Natalie Lue takes you step by step through the process of deciding whether a blog really is the right method of communication to help your business. In business, it can feel like everybody is using Facebook, Twitter, blogging and a host of other social media options for their business, [...]
In this post our blog PR expert Lesley Singleton looks at the ways in which bloggers and PRs can work together and enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship. My name is Lesley, I am a PR and I want something for free from bloggers. Shock horror! Allow me to explain… I’ve been working in PR and the media [...]
This is the first in a series of articles about the Art of Blogging by the Queen of Blogging herself Natalie Lue. Natalie earns a living from blogging at Bambino Goodies & Nest Goodies , Style Bambino , Baggage Reclaim and Self Employed Mum 1. Add Value Write content that supports your offering and by [...]
Up until 6 months ago I really didn’t ‘get’ blogging. Everywhere I turned I was being told that I should have a blog for my business. But in my mind a blog was just a very public diary and I had no idea how that could translate to the business world. Then in April Irene [...]
