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Calling all mums! MumsClub’s Awards

Calling all mums! – it’s time to get nominating to vote for the UK’s top mums in business at MumsClub’s 4th annual Business Mum Awards – with headline sponsors MyFamilyClub. The New Year has seen lots of headlines; Prime Minister David Cameron has announced his ideas for a more entrepreneurial Britain and the founder of…

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WIN! 5 Gold memberships worth £1000 to promote your Home Business!

Get your home business promoted in the media, trade with other home business owners and buy, sell and swap on iHubbub’s home business network. iHubbub is a new website to address the needs of the start-up and home working community. It focuses on: Supporting start-ups, home businesses, freelancers with real hands on business development tools…

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How to get PR for your business

Author of Pimp My Site, Paula Wynne, shares her top tips for getting free publicity for your business. Free publicity, either at a local or national level, is the perfect way to promote your business and drive traffic to your website. The media look for news stories not marketing messages from a company, so it…

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Meet the Mumpreneurs : Women like us

Karen Mattison, mother to Ben (10), Joe (7) and Noah (2) recently won the Yell.com Inspirational Business Mum of the Year’ Award for her recruitment agency Women Like Us. Here she talks about how she came up with the idea and why mums are a great asset in the workplace. Why I did it I came up with…

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Kitchen hygiene and organisation

We can take you through some basic rules of kitchen hygiene and gives some handy tips on how to make cooking for your baby simple. Babies are especially vulnerable to bacteria that cause food poisoning, so it is very important to store, prepare and cook food correctly, and keep your kitchen and equipment clean. Always wash your hands…

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Stress management for working parents

Work stress is a major challenge facing the UK workforce at present with Government figures showing that one in five people suffers from workplace stress. A recent article in The Times about the long hours being worked in the UK includes statements such as: Millions would happily put in a few extra hours during 2010…

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Shopping online for your baby

Shopping online for your baby is a very attractive proposition when you are pregnant or have a little one in tow. There is no journey to make, parking to pay for or boxes to carry but is it safe? Are there pitfalls? Shopping online ought to be infinitely safer than giving your details over the phone, by email…

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Babyworld goes underground : the full results

290 TRAVELLERS on a busy London Underground line were asked: “If you saw a pregnant woman standing during a journey on the Underground, would you get up and give her your seat?” Overall results: No. of people Percentage Always 221 76% Sometimes 58 20% Never 11 4% TOTAL 290 100% Breakdown of results: Gender of…

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Nannies paid up to £22,000!

25 January, 2001 Nannies paid up to £22,000! NANNIES working in the middle of London now earn around £22,000 as parents battle to keep well-qualified and experienced staff. Just four years ago, nannies in London earned an average of £15,330 but competition to keep the best nanny has led parents to pay an average of…

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Bread, milk and childcare

2 December 1999 Bread, milk and childcare WANT a childcare place? Have you tried the supermarket? Special touchscreen kiosks are to be set up in supermarkets to tell parents about a range of childcare and early years services in their area, from next year. A national information line and website has also been launched, to…

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