Hi Motivated Mums!

If you are a stay at home mum,  working from home or thinking of starting a home business then you have come to the right place.  Motivating Mum is full of goodies and freebies for businessmums, including

• Affordable Business Mentoring - specific help for your business from mums who have done it themselves
  
  
• Business Networking Events  - always child friendly - come and join us
  
  
• You can now also get a Daily Dose of Motivation from me and the team in your inbox every morning.

Mummy Mentoring Month

March is Mummy Mentoring Month at Motivating Mum.  Those of you who were here last year may remember that this is a month where you can get all sorts of great useful information for your business, for free, or at very reasonable prices - and all money spent goes to charity.

I have decided this year to stick with the same charity - Nema, helping women to care for their families in Mozambique.  Last year we raised £650 so I want to beat that figure this year.

So to start off with, I am looking for contributors.  I'm making it a bit more simple than last year.  What I am looking for is:

Guest blogs - on any subject that will provide support and advice to mums - see last year's blogs for inspiration

Mentors - donate one 30 minute phone session to mentor a mum who is starting up in business

Trainers, mentors , consultants, coaches, and anyone who supports mums - donate one session of whatever it is that you do, for a grand charity auction of services. You decide the length and terms and conditions of what you are donating, but you will receive no payment for it

You can donate in any or all of these categories and there are rewards for all, in terms of advertising and social media coverage for your business, not to mention the warm glow of doing something nice for charity.  If you would like more details please sign up to my Mummy Mentoring Month participants mailing list and I will send you the full information pack.

Saving Money with Motivating Mum (Extreme Couponing)

If you have come to Motivating Mum, because of one of my recent press outings on the subject of Extreme Couponing, please see my new blog Money Minding Mum, or join my Money Saving Tips newsletter. My money saving activity was starting to take over at Motivating Mum, so I have now given it a site of its own....

How to Get Noticed On The Internet

Andy Bailey from Commentluv has just released a brand new free video series called How to Get Noticed on the Internet. All he wants is your email address and you can watch this great series of emails for free.  If you have a website, blog, facebook or twitter account and want to increase your following, I would recommend that you take a look at these videos while they are still free. Andy is a very engaging speaker, and these videos are very well produced and full of good and useful tips.  You can get these great free training videos at the Commentluv site.

Motivating Mum on Facebook

Other opportunities for mums in business include:

Business networking: networking lunches, brainstorm sessions and our exclusive Businessmums' Club;

Small business support: business mentoring by phone with established mums in business, articles, and a bookshop;

Mums forum: with questions answered by our own legal, accounting and marketing gurus.

Also, check out workingmums.co.uk to find out how you can benefit from a new job opportunity that suits your schedule.

Enjoy, and if this site gets you even one step closer to realising your goals, then I've done (one of) my jobs!

Cheers!  Debbie x

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