Proofreading from home is often advertised as an ideal second career but can you really earn a living doing it? There is good advice over on Writing World, and you can find out what it is really like if you check out proofreader Ruth Rayment’s mumpreneur profile.

To celebrate the start of a second successful year in business, www.findatvexpert.com is giving experts who want to be considered for TV&Media opportunities the chance to win a year’s free membership worth £100. “Britain’s Got Experts and I want to help promote them to TV researchers, development producers and commissioners who are hungry for ideas, inspiration and the next ‘big thing’,” says Claire Richmond, ex TV producer and founder of findaTVexpert.com. Everyone with the skills, training and qualifications to prove they’re an expert in their field of business can enter …

 
What business are you in?
I offer freelance marketing and PR support for SMEs
Why did you start your business?
I worked for Boots for 17 years in a marketing role and after the birth of my first son, went back to this job full time. This was OK until my second son came along three and a half years later. Going back after my second maternity leave, coincided with my first son starting school, and I found it too difficult to juggle the school and nursery as well as a pressurised job. …

 
 
 
 
 
Name of Business: Family Friendly Working, The Mumpreneur Guide, PRBasics and ACPR
Tell us about your family: I’m 38 and live in Sussex with my partner, David and Daisy, 6, Jay, 3 plus number 3  should be here by the time you read this.
What did you do before coming up with your business idea (previous career, stay at home mum etc) and how was it making the transition?
I started off as an optometrist. I took to heart careers advice about a ‘good career’, but this didn’t take into account what I …

Tell us about your family
Married to David for 13 years, we’ve got two sons, Harry (4) and Joe, 2 months. We live in Lancashire.
What did you do before coming up with your business idea (previous career, stay at home mum etc) and how was it making the transition?
I was an Administrator in Corporate Recovery and Personal Insolvency, which was just about as depressing as it sounds. I always knew I wanted to write, but I’d been focussing on fiction. Then, one morning, sitting in Starbucks before work, I realised that I could …

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Name of Business: 
Tell us about your family.
My lovely family consists of my husband Michael, plus my two boys: Jonny – five and Jimi – 20 months.
When did you launch?
January 2008
How did you go about getting started?
Hitting the age of 40 led to some soul-searching .I decided that what I really wanted to do was to indulge my passion for writing and satisfy a long held ambition to own my own business. A friend mentioned magazine publishing so I decided to look into the reality of what this would entail- …

Name of Business:www.motheratwork.co.uk

Denise Tyler

Tell us about your family: Daughter, Freya aged 7, husband, Stephen, aged 45!
What did you do before coming up with your business idea and how was it making the transition?
I previously (and still do) worked in sports PR. I have run them side by side though the sports PR work has become less in the last few years. I no longer go to big international sports events as it would mean too long away from home (up to five weeks)
When did you launch? September 05
How did you get …

The market for case studies within women’s magazines and newspapers is exploding. Natasha Courtenay-Smith explains the appeal and how to use case studies to gain publicity for your business or client.
Ten years ago, I rarely used the term ‘real life case study.’ Save for women’s weekly magazines such as Take a Break, which have always predominately featured individual’s personal stories told in first person (as though it is they themselves writing the piece), there simply wasn’t such a demand for what is termed ‘real life’ within the press.

 
Name of Business: The Writing WellTell us about your family
I currently live in the Netherlands with my Dutch husband and our son. I am British and moved abroad in 2000 after meeting my husband in an internet chat room. I therefore know all about the power of technology from a personal and business perspective!
 

 When did you launch?
 
 I set up my freelance writing business in January 2008. After my maternity leave, I did not want to go back to my full time role in Human Resources and I had been …

Name of Business: Generation Publishing Ltd
Tell us about your family
I am married to Dominic, who’s 38 and an Assistant Head at a local secondary school. We have two children: Jonathan, who’s 11 and just started secondary school and Charlie who is 3. We have 3 cats – Bramble, TC and Jess, 6 chickens and approximately 80,000 bees! We relocated to the countryside from London two years ago, and becoming a mumtrepreneur was very much part of the “relaxed living” plan. I can’t honestly say it’s been that relaxed, but it’s …