| Speakers |
 An
award winning businesswoman with a highly successful global
operation will share her advice at the opening of the BusinessMums
Conference. With a high profile, product ranges across
numerous national chains, and guidance that almost every mum
follows at some stage in her baby or child’s life, Annabel
Karmel MBE is the symbol for long term success as
a mumpreneur.
Annabel
Karmel’s ‘Eat
Fussy’ range is the Number 1 Kids Chilled meals brand
and the fastest growing year on year. She is also the author
of 22 books with global book sales of over £4million.
At the BusinessMums Conference Annabel will
be sharing her advice for mums in business and would be mumpreneurs.
Annabel Karmel is pleased to be part of the event and says, “I
wish there had been a business mums conf when I was starting
out. The BusinessMums Conference in October in Brighton is a
unique and exciting event that celebrates the growing contribution
that business mums make to the economy. It has taken me many
years to build my business and I’ve learnt so much along
the way. I’m looking forward to sharing my
business advice and experience first hand to so many inspiring
mumpreneurs along with my top tips on how to manage motherhood
and a thriving company.”
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Mel McGee, author of Millionaire
Mumpreneurs, mum to three and founder of www.supermummy.com,
will talk on “Stop Marketing - Start Engaging. Extraordinary
Business Strategies”. |
 Julia
Chanteray, Business Expert, Director of The
Joy of Business and
resident business expert on Channel 4’s ‘Risking
It All'.
Julia started The Joy of Business because so many people
asked her for advice and support for their businesses when she moved
to Brighton. Julia has run a number of successful companies, including
an IT company valued at £48m, a housing association and a management
development company.
Julia is fascinated by the opportunities that running
your own business brings, and now acts as mentor for people
with great businesses that deserve to succeed. She provides
advice, support and help for growing businesses. |
 Carmen
MacDougall of The
Virtual Assistant Coaching and Training Company and Regional
Director - West Midlands The
Athena Network will be running the breakout session" Get
Out of Your Rut! Ongoing business development. How
to keep up the momentum and revolutionise your business practices"
In this presentation, Carmen will help you
to realise the price you could pay in your business and ultimately
your life if you were to stay in your rut, as well as effective
techniques you can use immediately so that you can change
negative behaviour patterns in order for you to create the attraction
factor. The aim is to help you to reshape your future
so that you can start to create a business that excites and motivates
you instead of overwhelming you and holding you back. The
result of this presentation is that you will be re-excited about
your future and start to cultivate your compelling future with
an overflow of business juice!
Areas Carmen will discuss with you:
- Break the patterns of your behaviour & turn
around how you feel about your business from overwhelm to passion
- Focus on what you actually want & train
your brain to create the reality
- De-clutter your business -
clarify key activities you must focus on to achieve results
you desire
- The importance of working SMARLY ON
your business by outsourcing (how to do it)
- Start to refocus, regain control and learn
how to find your own solutions to challenges
- The importance of a dream team – how
that can impact on your potential
- Take time for your life!! Yes even
for mums!
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Antonia Chitty is an award winning entrepreneur,
author and mum to three. She launched her own PR business in 2003
to enable her to carry on her passion for her work while also having
a great work-life balance and spending time with her daughter.
ACPR now specialises in PR training and advice for business owners.
Antonia wrote her first book, A
Guide to Promoting Your Business, while on maternity leave
with her son. She now writes on business, health and parenting.
Antonia also offers specialist
business advice for mumpreneurs through The Mumpreneur Guide. |
Jo Wise will be featured as a case study in the conference
to show how and why she developed a new service during the recession.
Watch out for some naughty photos!
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Nikki Backshall works with business mums and women and trains
them how to utilize Social Media tools to enhance their online
branding, traffic and long-term success.
Founder of the Web Mums
community and a single mum to three children,
Nikki recognizes the importance of working around the busy schedule
of family life and offers training and advice that fits around
family commitments.
“Harnessing the Power
of Online Networking – new methods of communication to get
your name out there”.
In this presentation, Nikki will discuss the main Social Media
sites that will give you the most bang for your buck and build
your online reputation seamlessly.
You'll also learn how to create
a social media schedule that is quick to implement and not a
drain on your time.
- The ethos of Social Media and why it can
make or break your business
- Creating a lasting impression on Twitter
- Making the most of a Facebook fan page
- The power of blogging
- Where and when to promote via Social Media
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 Sam
Willoughby set up her business What's On 4 (www.whatson4.com )
after having her baby when her employer wouldn't discuss a flexible
return to work. She put together her own business experience
and a situation she found herself in as a new Mum to launch www.whatson4littleones.co.uk. That
was over 4 years ago and now Sam manages 5 websites and has a
team of 12 Mums working flexible at home too.
Sam
is passionate about flexible working for parents. Her website www.mumandworking.co.uk offers
advice, support and opportunities for any parent looking for
that flexible career and the mumandworking awards supported by
Sarah Beeny recognise just that!
Sam and her business have
appeared in national and parenting press many times with features
in the Daily Express, Mirror, Times, Woman's Own, Practical Parenting
magazine, Prima Baby & Pregnancy magazine and many local
and regional publications. Sam has also won several business
awards including Practical Parenting Business Parent of the Year
and has contributing to several books for mums in business.
Her
business is now franchised in the UK and Australia giving parents
a flexible business just like she has. Sam's advice to
any woman thinking of starting her own business is "Get
support from family and friends and professional advice too,
then go for it. You will never have so much fun or work
so hard and it will take you places you never imagined!'.
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 Alex Stone is an entrepreneur and a strategic marketer
who effortlessly combines passion, talent, insight, charm, wit,
enthusiasm and knowledge with a positive and a can-do mindset.
A marketing “force of nature” and fuelled by an innate
business understanding Alex has an instinctive ability to bring
the very best out of the people she works with.
Following a successful media career which includes working as
a marketing consultant for a technology start-up business and
owning and editing a local newspaper, Alex founded the award-winning
company, Just Too Busy in 2005 after the birth of her first child.Alex
has been running her own businesses for nearly nine years and
remains as motivated, driven, inspired and dedicated to helping
other businesses, as she was on day one.
Her fun and open personality
complements her ability to really help businesses not only market
successfully but ultimately to become successful.
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The
UK's Leading Happiness Expert, Mother, best-selling
author of 'The Happiness System for Women' and founder of National
Happiness Day, Alexandra
Watson has appeared on The X Factor,
coaching Leona Lewis and was guest speaker at ‘The
Vitality Show’.
Alexandra has created
a proven 7 week program to boost confidence
and overall fabulousness and will be focussing on ‘‘Time
To Shine! The 7 Must-Haves for Unblocking Your Business
Success Right Now.'
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Robyn Hatley - Robyn is the creator
of Mums
The Business (business advice & mentoring for
start up mumpreneurs); and also Regional Director for 9 groups
of The Athena Network (a business networking organisation
for women).
Robyn is the first to admit that the most critical
key to her success has been in finding her confidence as
an entrepreneur, after a corporate career; and then communicating
that confidence, when networking for or promoting her businesses.
Robyn believes that we can all have Superhero Confidence
in our businesses - without having to wear our underwear
on the outside! Join her workshop, where the keys to confidence
for mumpreneurs will be swiftly unmasked! Robyn will show
you:
- Why confidence gives kudos to your business
- How to capture & carve your own confident space in the
world of business
- How to be confident in who you are & what you have to say
about your business
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