Mumpreneur UK are looking to compile a list of their top 100 business women to help raise the profile of women in business throughout the UK and Ireland.
So are you a mum, grandma or mum to be who wants to raise the profile of your business and hopefully appear in the list?
If you are then visit Mumpreneur UK to see the full T&C’s and enter using their entry form.
Closing date Friday 18th November and the list will be published 1st December.
Good luck!

Right you have managed to create a great press release and want to include other items to reinforce how great your product/service is. Well a press pack can do this.
Press packs are a great way for promoting your business and here are some tips on how to create them.
Press packs contain your press release along with additional information and samples. Sending the pack through the post can be costly but you can be creative by doing it this way.
How can you make your pack stand out? …

When you are starting out in business, funds can be very limited and you have no doubt already spent a lot of money setting up so when it comes to generating interest and customers for your business, you may not have a lot of spare money left to pay for PR.
So here are some tips on writing your own press releases which will save you valuable money for other important aspects of promoting your business.
What is a press release? A press release is a newsworthy story about your business which …

Promotion is an important part of growing your business. There are many ways to achieve this and here are three top tips to help you with promoting your business.

You need to plan your promotion. Using this simple acronym, SMART, meaning specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely, will help you do this effectively. Specific means being clear about what you want to achieve from your promotion, Measurable means you should be able to measure whether you are achieving your desired goal, Achievable means can you actually do what you have planned. …

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Firstly, what is USP?
Well your USP is your Unique Selling Points. Your unique selling points are the points which make your business or service different or ‘unique’ from other companies and if used to promote your business or service will attract the right customers to you.
Now you may think you already know all the points which make you business different from the rest but a great way to find out what you may have missed is to ask friends and family what they think.
Also another way …

SuperScrimpers: Waste Not Want Not, a new Channel 4 television series is on the hunt for Britain’s thrifty men and women who are happy to share their tips on how to spend wisely and not waste unnecessarily.  Every week our presenter Mrs Moneypenny is also helping a family, couple or individual who wants to get their spending under control.

Looking for more media exposure for your business?  Awards and competitions are a great way of getting column inches!
Thanks to Boost Marketing for this useful list of awards to enter:

Are you a female entrepreneur in need of help?
And would you be happy to be filmed getting that help?
Independent production company, Handle and Spout, has teamed up with Lynette Allen to make a pilot television programme.

Journalist Glynis Kozma is looking for  pairs of friends who met online ( not through a mumsnet type site) but any other forum.