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On The Panel: PR & The Media One Day Conference 24th Feb 2010

11 January 2010

Welcome back to Self Employed Mum. Thanks for visiting!

I’ve known about this for a couple of months but it’s creeping closer and I’ve got the flutters as I’m going to be on the panel at PR & The Media, a one-day conference produced by Haymarket’s PR Week, the industry B2B magazine for public relations professionals. [...]

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Tomayto, Tomato: Understanding why PR people get confused about how to approach you

17 December 2009

Recently I attended and spoke at the Mumpreneurs Meetup at Ping Pong (yum yum dim sum) and almost immediately got drawn into an interesting and slightly heated discussion about how to be approached by PRs. If you’ve been in the blogosphere for longer than a nanosecond, you’re probably aware [...]

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Facebook Pages – Do you need one?

2 December 2009

It seems like everyone (myself included) has got a Facebook page for their business but I have to admit that on numerous occasions I have asked myself why the frick I have one because I’m not actively using them and haven’t looked at some pages that I’m a fan of for ages, if at all. [...]

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

18 November 2009

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 running advertising.
We’ve decided to run our first web [...]

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Email Marketing Utility: Mad Mimi

17 November 2009

If you’re someone who dreads sending email newsletters because they’re time consuming to create or the software’s a pain in the arse, and like me, find yourself saying at 11pm at night ‘Shag! I haven’t written the email newsletter yet!’, you need to check out email utility software Mad Mimi. The duo behind it created [...]

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