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Written by: Mandy Garner

Business moms on the run - Click To Read Article
Jane Kelly and Zoe Friskney set up their business selling homeware after creating a jogging blog. Here they describe how they did it and their plans for the future.

Holiday nanny - Click To Read Article
Nicky Grant started her Holiday Nanny business after needing a babysitter on holiday. Just over three years later, she has won awards and is going global.

Employees matter - Click To Read Article
Zoe Sinclair felt that she lacked support for the transition from motherhood back to work so she set up her own business providing that support to parents while they are at work. Now she has just launched a telephone expert service.

How to...launch a successful business - Click To Read Article
Mark Smith and Nick Beeny think they have hit on a winning business formula - a website designed to tell people how to do just about anything. How did they set it up and where do they see it going?

How SMEs can go global - Click To Read Article
A new book by home business guru Emma Jones explains how SMEs and sole traders can go global to increase their income during the recession.

Why mums make great entrepreneurs - Click To Read Article
Mums often make natural entrepreneurs and have the motivation to set up their own business to balance work and family needs, says a leading business expert who is promoting grassroots entrepreneurialism.

Networking for parents - Click To Read Article
Caroline Artis is a partner at Ernst & Young. When she went on maternity leave she realised that more support was needed for returning mums. Now she heads a Parents' Network which provides a growing range of advice and help for working parents in the firm.

The business of childminding - Click To Read Article
Lisa Williams knows about looking after children. Having been a childminder for several years she is now putting her knowledge to the test by setting up a business which aims to help them negotiate new mounds of bureaucracy.

Top tips on how to manage flexible workers - Click To Read Article
Flexible working is all the rage and many companies are using it to get round the recession. It saves on overheads, helps recruitment and retention of experienced staff and reduces absence. But what are the barriers and how do you manage flexible workers? Here are some tips on how to make flexible working work for you.

Any time, any place, anywhere - Click To Read Article
Flexible working is normally conceived as working part time, compressed hours or starting earlier/finishing later. But what if your work was so flexible that it meant you could move to the other side of the world with virtually no impact? That is what Lysette Parbhu has done. She set up her ethical children's clothes company, Babies in Sheep's Clothing, in the UK and has just moved to South Africa for her husband's business and is still able to work more or less as normal around her two children.

Shoes Glorious Shoes - Click To Read Article
Maria Darling started her own shoe business after she found it hard to buy nice shoes for her small feet. Now the business is being franchised nationally.

Trust is a two-way street - Click To Read Article
Giving employees a little flexibility and trusting them to do their hours can reap companies a lot of benefits, says Rachel Fellows, UK Corporate Communications Manager at Kellogg's.

Inside the teen mind - Click To Read Article
Sue Scott-Horne knows about teenagers, as a mum and as a social worker. When the number of attacks on teens started increasing, she thought she could do something about it and has set up a business producing educational resources to help parents and others communicate better with young people.

Working for working mums - Click To Read Article
What do you do when your children are off sick or there are medical checks, clinics to attend, inset days or other myriad child-related appointments to keep? There are only so many days you can take off work, as many mothers have discovered. Flexible working can seem the only solution for mothers who want or need to work, but how can you find it? Enter Gillian Nissim. She is a working mum of two boys and found herself and many of her friends in a similar position, needing flexible yet challenging work, but not being able to find it. She set about doing something about it.

Virtually legal - Click To Read Article
More and more companies are setting up virtually and using technology to cut overheads and offer more flexible working conditions to employees. They include lawyers. Mandy Garner looks at one virtual law firm.

Top tips on starting up as a franchisee - Click To Read Article
Have you ever considered setting up as a franchisee? It could be the answer for you if you want the freedom of being your own boss, but also the security of working within some sort of established framework. Here are some tips on what to consider before you take the plunge.

The business of being a mom - Click To Read Article
Trying to balance work and life can be difficult at the best of times, but what if you are doing the work bit with a three and a half year old at your side? If you can do that, launch a successful business venture and stay sane, you have got to have a huge range of skills. Jane Hopkins, who has built up a business as editor of a mom's networking journal, knows how.

The business of childcare - Click To Read Article
Amber Jones was a recruitment consultant, but when she had her first child she was angered by the lack of quality childcare available so she decided to set up her own childcare recruitment business. It has now gone national.

SMEs and Flexible Working: the Perfect Match? - Click To Read Article
Flexible working could be a match made in heaven for small but ambitious companies because it allows staff to grow with the business. One company tells why it works for them.

Promoting women - Click To Read Article
Executive coach Suzanne Doyle-Morris has written a book about how women can rise up the career ladder in male-dominated fields. It includes lots of advice for women themselves and for the companies that employ them.

Putting the fizz into flexibility - Click To Read Article
How do you address the issues which affect women returning to work after having children? For Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd, you start by finding out what women who have done it think.

Getting creative about flexible working - Click To Read Article
The advertising and marketing industries are renowed for their last minute bursts of frantic activity as deadlines loom. It doesn't have to be that way, though, says Gary Reid, managing director of Nude, a UK-based creative company.

Flexible relocation - Click To Read Article
How do you relocate your firm and yet manage not to lose all your experienced staff? One organisation in the UK is using flexible working to ensure it doesn't have to start from scratch when it moves to another part of the country.

Could the future be virtual working? - Click To Read Article
New technology allows an increasing number of people to set up virtual businesses from their homes. Lilach Bullock set her own company offering virtual office administration and is going from strength to strength, often supporting other virtual businesses. She spoke to Mandy Garner.

Charity begins at home - Click To Read Article
Mia Woodford and her friend Emma Leschallas have set up their own business running a website which auctions gifts donated to charity and returns the proceeds to charity. Building on her background in advertising, the site has auctioned everything from Bridget Jones' knickers to Roger Federer's tennis shirt.

Businesswomen by chance - Click To Read Article
Anna Gibson and Philippa Gogarty are unlikely entrepreneurs, but, although they did not go into business intentionally, they have taken the UK toy world by storm and are branching out in the US using a highly successful mums network model.

Building women's business networks - Click To Read Article
Amanda Frolich is not only a woman with a thriving business, but she is also setting up a network for working mums like herself.

A woman with potential - Click To Read Article
Roberta Jerram has spent her life setting up businesses and running party plan organisations so she is well qualified to moderate a social networking forum for businesswomen.





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