Operating a mum-owned business can be quite a juggling act. Generating sales, monitoring finances, keeping abreast of admin, understanding valuable marketing techniques and how to implement them, and taking care of family life can be exhausting! At times you may feel like Jack-of-all-trades and master of none!

Have you considered the benefits – and power – of outsourcing various elements of your business? This is especially useful for the areas of business you don’t enjoy or in which you lack experience. Although additional costs will be incurred, you will soon get this back in terms of the t...

As a busy working mum, do you find it difficult to take a break and spend quality time with your children? It can often be the curse of the successful mumpreneur who is doing so well with the business, and enjoying the financial rewards it offers the family, that little time is left to enjoy quality time as a family.

If this sounds familiar to you, how does that make you feel? It is likely you set up your business so you could work around your family and attend to their needs in a flexible manner. Why not go back to basics and realign this as one of your key goals? The summer months offer the...

Calling all mumpreneurs who are feeling burnt out, frazzled and at the end of their tethers! Well, who would be surprised if you are all those things as you continually endeavour to take care of the children, the household and a successful business! Those mumpreneurs who have children at home during the summer holidays must feel particularly shattered!

You should and must all realise it is OKAY to take a break, to chill out, to escape the bedlam, to have a KitKat! You must allow yourself time to recharge your batteries: in your absence your children will survive, the house will not fall down,...

As a budding entrepreneur, allowing self-doubt to consume you could be catastrophic for your future success. Theoretically entrepreneurs exude self-confidence and have an absolute belief in what they set out to achieve. In reality, mumpreneurs face an inordinate about of challenges that can test self-belief, and the pressure only rises once doubt sets in.

Of course life for many mumpreneurs differs greatly from those cash- and time-rich entrepreneurs. When you consider failure, not only is your money and reputation at stake, the future you had in mind for your family could also be threatened....

Ces Loftus (known as @Ces_Creatively on twitter) is a mum of 3 from Poole. In May 2006 her 4th son was still born at full term and she has overcome adversity to make a successful new cyber career. Ces says: "When my son died I almost died too. During the following few years I had several miscarriages, was grief stricken and went through a rough time on many levels as I lost my business, got into debt and felt like my life was collapsing around me.

Having worked as a brand image designer in agencies across the UK during my fifteen year career before becoming self employed, I set my business ba...

Are you procrastinating about setting up your own business or have you been deferring the growth of an existing venture? Do you have tangible reasons for this lack of action or do you simply fear failure and the unknown?

Fear can be an all-consuming emotion that causes inactivity and results in unfulfilled dreams and aspirations. Allowing fear to control your decisions will damage your self-esteem and create a void where there was once potential.

Everyone, even the most successful entrepreneurs, fear failure. However, success is only achieved by those individuals who know how to manage their...

Throughout the Empowering Mums website, our monthly e-newsletter and our blog articles, we have discussed the many benefits of becoming a mumpreneur. The main benefit is about fulfilling your potential, your entrepreneurial spirit and your lust for life: attaining goals that give you a significant boost in self-esteem. A plus point is the greater flexibility it offers you, enabling you to regain financial independence by generating your own income.

However, you may be reading this thinking, “Can I really do this?” Do you have the business ideas, acumen and confidence to attain your ultimate g...

On 2^nd July 2011, Mums Club will host the National Business and Baby Show, the UK’s premier mumpreneur event, at New Bingley Hall in Birmingham. The Business and Baby Show is the UK’s first ever ‘work from home’ show and will give you the inspiration you need to start up your own business or expand your existing enterprise so you can become a successful and empowered mumpreneur!

The show is dedicated to mums seeking flexible employment, post maternity options and ways to become a prosperous mumpreneur! This exciting event includes:

• Business start up and growth workshops
• Expert speakers
• W
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This month we have discussed ways to overcome Working Mum Guilt but we often feel guilty for failing to live up to the ridiculous standards we set ourselves. All mums have an idealised concept of perfection, but with kids and a business thrown in, how fair is it to apply these pressures to our lives?

Perfection does not equal happiness

If you are striving to achieve the perfect life it is likely you are stressed, uptight and very unhappy! Why not stop to consider your true values, the goals you want to achieve and how you would prefer to spend your time?

No-one is perfect

You might think y...