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From Business Idea To Launch – Part 4 – Testing

7 January 2010

Welcome back to Self Employed Mum. Thanks for visiting!

Launching this new bizz has been a different kettle of fish to my other businesses.
For a start, I’ve had to get to grips with a whole new type of website software to help me deliver the customer experience I wanted. One of the biggest changes though has [...]

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Do You Send Free Samples?

25 November 2009

I’ve just come off the ‘phone from having a conversation with someone about the organic baby clothes I manufacture.
The caller was actually on behalf of members of his family who want to start an online business retailing ethical children’s clothes. I’m assuming that he must be quite new to the business as he first wanted [...]

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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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Office Candy: Cork Board Pins From funkychickendesign

3 November 2009

Loving these cool marble push pins from Etsy seller funkychickendesign.
Just the thing to brighten up the old cork pin board and inject a bit of retro style onto your message board.
Set of 9 marble push pins. Approximately 3/4″ round with a tack attached.
Price: $5.00, ships to the Uk from the US for $4.50

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The Mumpreneur Guide by Antonia Chitty

10 October 2009

Hot on the heels of my post about the mum label wars, I’m back using the ‘M’ word again as I got a copy of Antonia Chitty’s new book The Mumpreneur Guide a few weeks back. Antonia’s a journo, owns her own PR company, writes about family friendly working on her blog, and author of [...]

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