Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

London Mums' fab coffee mornings - the Italian way

On Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th December 2014, London Mums teamed up with illycaffè to host two coffee tasting and training days for its new brand ambassadors. We had a fantastic day, starting off in illy’s Regent Street café where we had a delicious Italian lunch, and then moving on to illy’s Islington University of Coffee where we learnt to tell our cappuccinos from our lattes! At the…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Spanish mumpreneurs

Spanish Mumpreneurs? Spanish women entrepreneurs- using Spanish to better your business is not all there is to it…. So here I am for the past three years giving my dream a go. My background in Psychology, Social Work, Youth Work, supporting children with disabilities, Massage Therapy and now lots of Language Teaching. Oh the magic of languages! I grew up bilingual (Spanish- English) and love…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Turn your passion for coffee into cash! Fun & flexible roles for mums as brand ambassadors for illycaffè

London Mums have partnered with Premium Italian coffee roaster illycaffè to launch a pioneering new and fun initiative to allow mums to earn money flexibly from home by doing what they love – holding coffee mornings for their friends and family at home, chillaxing and chit-chatting over a cappuccino. illycaffè is looking for 20 brand ambassadors in London and the surrounding areas .
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Calling all coffee lovers in London! Turn your PASSION for coffee into CASH

Calling all London Mums who are Coffee Lovers! Turn your PASSION for coffee into CASH Premium Italian coffee roaster illycaffè has launched a new initiative to give 20 mums the chance to earn money by doing what they love – holding coffee mornings for their friends and family at home, chillaxing and chit-chatting over a cappuccino. If you want to get involved, email…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

5 Ways To Gain Rock Star Exposure For Your Business

Rock stars have all the fun, don’t they? They’re in the limelight all the time and their fans follow everything they say and do. Which makes their fans perfect advocates for their brand. Their message gets spread far and wide, which results in – yep you’ve guessed it – more fans! For the likes of you and me running our own business, gaining rock star exposure doesn’t seem at…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Flexible work opportunities for mums with The Home Club

I know a lot of you mums out there would love to go back to work. You may have a child and feel like there is just something holding you back from getting back to work, like child-care, or that sudden lack of flexibility you will suffer from stepping back into the office. Believe me, I have lost count of the number of times my mum has told me she gave up a brilliant career to mother the four of…
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PR Support for Mumpreneurs

You have just started your kitchen table business and you don’t have marketing budget. You just need to build a website and create content for it but don’t know where to start. You have been told to write a press release to announce the launch of your product, service or business but you don’t know how to do it. You want to ramp up your social media presence but you don’t…
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Do Blogging & Social Media cause you Anxiety? You may need a Digi Detox ...

Every Summer at the end of the school year, I head off to Italy and I start a period of real digi detox by switching off my social media due to high roaming charges on the smartphone. The result is increased quality time spent reading, writing and deep thinking not to mention the added family activities. My digi detox also involves no TV or screen time of any kind (except for my checking work…
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EXCLUSIVE! World-renowned photographer Anne Geddes talks babies and her 30-year career

EXCLUSIVE! World-renowned photographer Anne Geddes talks babies and her 30-year career at the launch of a global health campaign to highlight the impact of meningitis.  Bacterial meningitis is the leading infectious killer in children under 53 and MenB is the leading cause; the disease can result in death within 24 hours and life-long disabilities for survivors. Some of these survivors have been…
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Want a better work-life balance? Try going slow...

The thorny issue of work-life balance never seems to go away, particularly for working parents who are often so under pressure to stretch their time available to fit everything in that they can feel like an elastic band about to snap! Interestingly I was listening to a radio programme recently where 3 people were seeking help to slow their lives down. The volunteers had noticed how they never…
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