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Have you been in the situation where you’ve been faced with a difficult task? Whether you’ve been challenged to abseil or to pass an exam, what was your first thought? Did you think, “If I work hard and practice I can do it” or did you think, “I don’t know how to do it now, I’m not a natural at passing exams” or “I can’t abseil and no amount of practice will change that!”
Acknowledging the way your mind works is critical to business success.
The theorist Carol Dweck believes there are two …

Are you looking for a way to run your business more efficiently and know exactly what your cash flow is and how you can build on this in the coming years?
Well there are many ways in which you can do this but there is one important part of any business that needs to be kept on top of to make the business thrive and that is the books. Now this can be quite a time consuming task if not done correctly or done regularly, but there are ways of making …

Guest post by Suzy Greaves

Should we wait until we inspired until we take action or force ourselves to JUST DO IT?
I’ve been on team inspiration for many years. ‘You need to really want to do it versus forcing yourself,’ I would tell my clients. ‘Inspiration versus perspiration’ was my motto.
That was until I started writing my novel. I started it in 2010 and wrote 29,564 words. In 2011, I didn’t feel very inspired and waited for that inspiration. It never came. I didn’t write one single page.
2012 …

When you first start a business, you might be short on cash. Perhaps like me you’ve been making ends meet by budgeting and picking up bits of work here and there. If you’re working and looking to make the transition to being self employed this can also be a worrying time financially: starting up a business often means taking an initial drop in income. Whichever of these scenarios you are faced with, your response needs to be the same.  For a while you’re going to have to live on less.
That …

Just a quick post to say that our Become a Mumpreneur Course that we launched in Jan 2011 is having one more intake of members before it closes forever.
This course offers the most training for the least investment of all our courses and has been really well received. If you want to join be very quick as it closes at 9pm Friday 3rd Feb.
Watch the video about what’s included here >> Become a Mumpreneur

This post is for you if you want to find out how an eBook can make a real difference to your business, because I’m going to tell you how one started my business career.
In 2007, I was a stay at home mum. Due to illness I was keen to find ways to make money from home, so I tried out an eBay business. I spotted an information product about how to make money online, which was all about the value of information and how if you had the …

What’s your business ambition right now? Do you want to raise your business profile? Do you want to attract more customers? Put your prices up? Or make more profit? Or have you simply always wanted to write a book?
If any of those goals are ringing true for you join the From Knowledge to Profit course.
In this new course we’re giving a small group of people the chance to work with us to write and publish an eBook over the course of 3 months.
It is an amazing opportunity as we’re bringing …

At the beginning of the year I decided I’d spend a bit more time talking about my work this year as it’s become a much bigger part of my life since Erin’s been at school.
So what have I been up to?
Well I’ve just finished running a Social Media Skills that Sells course. The format was quite different to anything I’ve done before and it went down really well, the feedback has been excellent so very pleased with that.
Our next eCourse is due to start at the end of the …

I haven’t spoken much about my work and I plan to change that a bit in 2012 because it has become a much bigger part of how I spend time, alongside Uni still. Work wise I’m really excited about 2012, we’ve come up with some great new products for business women that I’m really enthusiastic about and we’ve pared down some of our other projects to focus on just training for the moment.
We have a fantastic range of free resources for 2012 that I’d like to share with you. …

Everyone is feeling the recession this year and we will no doubt all spend too much over the festive period. So if like me you are dreading the new year and having no money here are some ways to make the money you do have go that little bit further.

Watch what you buy when you are shopping. Did you know that most food is free from VAT but some of the more common groceries we buy such as confectionary, snacks and drink aren’t? Which foods qualify for VAT can be …

In 7 years Innocent went from a turnover of ?0 in 1999 to ?75m in2006. From 3 employers to 105. From 0% market share to a staggering 62%. It’s the kid of growth many small business owners can only dream of.
Today the company turns over ?113m, and all this from a headquarters called ‘Fruit Towers’. So what’s the secret of this succesful British company run by three Cambridge grads and what can the rest of us learn from them?

Less is More
Innocent bucked the 330ml trend and brought to market their …

We’ve all heard the word innovation bandied around but what does it really mean and why is it so important to a business?
In a nutshell innovation is progress. It’s taking an opportunity or idea and bringing it to market in the form of a product, service or improvement. However innovation isn’t just amazing new inventions and never seen before gadgets. Some of the most innovative innovations are the ones that take an existing idea and improve on it in a way that nobody had even thought of …

I’m at the Business Mums Summit today down in Brighton today, but I thought I’d share this interview between Suzy Greaves and Antonia Chitty. The interview is packed full of really good stuff related to starting a business.
Listen to it here – How to Build a Business Online