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Sign Up for the Blogging for Profit – The Quick Guide to Online Advertising Web Seminar

18 November 2009

Welcome back to Self Employed Mum. Thanks for visiting!

There are lots of questions in the blogosphere, particularly on the ‘mummy blogging’ scene about online advertising – from how to get it, who to get it from, technical aspects, getting money from empty wells like PR peeps, ad networks, and even just the act of contemplating [...]

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From Bad Date to Full Time Blogger: My thoughts on how I make blogging work for me as a career

18 November 2009

Following on from my post last week about how I went from bad date to full time blogger, here are just a few of my thoughts on how I make my passion work for me as a career:
I’m not reliant on one source of income. This is less stressful in many respects. Advertising is great [...]

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From bad date to full time blogger: How it all started

10 November 2009

I’m frequently asked how I came to be blogging for a living and with Ali giving an insight into how she went from business idea to launch, I thought I’d share my own experiences, although it’s far from the traditional route. With a lot of talk in the UK mum area of the blogosphere about [...]

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Hot Click: School of Everything

7 November 2009

They say those who can’t, teach, but actually I think that whilst that may well be true, there are also a wealth of people out there that need to learn how to do something specific that’s not necessarily covered by a local community college course or in need of an Open University degree. [...]

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Do you have an elevator pitch? Tagline? One-line description?

6 November 2009

Can you describe what you do, your business, or your product in thirty seconds or under? If you can’t, you should.
Imagine you were in a lift and had that short period of time to wow that person that you really want to invest in your company or buy whatever you’re selling, what would you say?
It’s [...]

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