Starting up a new business as a mumpreneur is challenging in itself. Starting up a business as a foreign mumpreneur can be even more challenging because there are various cultural issues on top of the everyday business challenges and the colossal task of juggling motherhood with an entrepreneurial career. I am an American mother of three British born children and I’ve been living in England with my British husband since 1999. I started my design business in 2003 after being made redundant from my full time position as senior Internet …

New Start Scotland
Nov 18 and 19, 2011
SECC Scotland
Running over two days, New Start Scotland offers over 100 exhibitors as well as 50 seminars and workshops, giving people a chance to develop their entrepreneurial skills, meet new contacts and get advice on how to turn their business dreams into reality. Over 8,000 entrepreneurs and business owners are expected to attend. This year’s key speakers include online Dragons’ Den panelist Shaf Rasul.
Highlights:
 
•         Bright business idea competition
 
•         Business planning kiosks
 
•         Online demonstration area
 
•         Small business clinic
 
•         Networking area
 
To find out more or book …

Then you need the BusinessMums Summit Scholarship Programme.
We know that it can be hard to invest in the business training you need when you are starting a business and supporting a family. 
For the second year running the lovely sponsors of BusinessMumsSummit: BabyTod, Baby Signing Mummy, TotsToTravel and Become A Mumpreneur have agreed to help other mums come along to the conference. 

More and more mums are turning to blogging, and many are making money from it too. If you’d like to become a mum blogger, get products to review and receive payments for sponsored posts, read on:
Many mums start to blog about something they have a passion for, and for many that is parenthood. You might want to write about your daily life, or you might focus on a particular interest such as baking, making, photography . There are no limits as to the topics you can cover: it is up …

We know that it can be hard to invest in the business training you need when you are starting a business and supporting a family. That’s why this year we’ve created the BusinessMums Summit Scholarship Programme.
In 2010, some lovely business owners sponsored a few people to attend the conference. This year we wanted to expand the programme and make it open to as many people as possible.  In this way we hope that it won’t just …

“A great resource for any mum looking for flexible working inspiration and ideas. The Mumpreneur Guide is well researched, using fascinating real life case studies to support the its sound business information and advice, there are a lot of inspiring mums out there and it’s great to see their efforts recognised. A must-have for the bookshelf of any aspiring Mumpreneur!”
Jane Hopkins of MumsClub – The Business Club for Entrepreneurial Mums

‘Taking Online Payments’ teleclass – 8pm Tuesday 5th April
A few years ago, pretty much all my clients paid by cheque on receipt of an invoice. A few sales went through paypal, one or two people had set up a standing order, but most of the time I had to send out a manual request for money and wait to get paid.
Fast forward to 2011, and a conversation with my bookkeeper, who said, “I was going through your books, Antonia, and wished I had so many …

..even if you are at home with the kids, can’t find a job or have a job but need more money.

To help kids become fitter in a fun way, Pineapple Leisure Ltd is releasing
the inflatable Jump Gym and offering the chance for local owner operators to
run their own Jump Gym businesses in individual towns throughout the UK.

As the first group of mums work through the Become a Mumpreneur eCourse, we thought you’d like an insight into what they are learning.
Pamela has only recently joined the course, but has found a great way to start earning with guaranteed sales! She listened to the latest teleclass with our expert Helen Lindop and then took action to test out her business idea: