10 MORE reasons you MUST attend the 2011 National Mumpreneurs Conference

10 MORE reasons you need to be at the 2011 National Mumpreneurs Conference!

A few weeks ago you may remember we wrote about the 10 reasons you need to be at the Mumpreneurs Conference - well we've found another 10! and here they are:

1.Be inspired – Hear the story behind the success of businesses like Aromababy, Babes In Arms, Michelle Bowden Enterprises, Food for Health
and Slim Secrets and how their journey to becoming a mumpreneur has created a new life for themselves and their families!

2. Become Social Media Savvy – The amazing Lara Soloman and charismatic Nick Bowditch will be sharing their tips and stories of how social media changed their life and helped grow amazing businesses!






3. Create the conference that's right for you! With a choice of 13 workshops to attend you can tailor your days to target the area's you need to work on! (see full program)

4. Connect with the best & the brightest – Meet the talented finalists of the AusMumpreneur Awards gathered together in one place for one very special night!

5. Lights Camera Action! – Get fabulous professional shots to use for your business with our professional photographer as well as join in the fun of photobooth snaps with your friends!




6. Work the room – network, network, network with up and coming mumpreneurs, business experts, inspirational speakers and the Connect2mums team! A sensational networking opportunity for you and your business at our exclusive networking event.

7. Support – Imagine being surrounded by a room full of people who truly understand where you’re coming from and what you’re hoping to achieve! That’s what this conference is all about connecting with like-minded people who understand your challenges and are excited by your success – get the support you need to keep going when times are tough.

8. Just Dance! – Join us at the AusMumpreneur Awards to dance the night away!


9. Win-win – Gorgeous prizes up for grabs throughout the weekend proudly donated by connect2mums members!

10. Reclaim your Fabulosity – Remember you? That person you used to be before you had children and started a business and got lost beneath the mountain of washing that never seems to end? This conference is all about becoming that excited, motivated, inspired person again! And helping you find the ability to take on the world and be the best you can be

So what are you waiting for? Book your spot for the 2011 Mumpreneurs Conference today!

Book your tickets online at http://australianmumpreneursconference.eventbrite.com/
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2011 Mumpreneurs Conference Speakers

Our Fabulous 2011 AusMumpreneurs Conference Guest Speakers (from left to right)

Julia Bickerstaff – Business Bakery

Julia Bickerstaff’s expertise is the art and science of designing profitable small businesses.

She is the founder of The Business Bakery and Butterfly Coaching, the author of How to Bake a Business, the finance expert on Channel 7’s Kochies Business Builders and the writer of Smartcompany’s profitable growth column.

Julia keynotes at seminars and runs workshops on the subjects of designing and growing profitable businesses and pricing for profit. She also works privately as advisor to a number of small and medium sized businesses.

Julia was formerly a partner at global consulting firm Deloitte where she chaired the firm’s Innovation Council, was on the Inspiring Women Executive, led the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, championed the firm’s SME strategy and was on the board of the Deloitte Foundation.

Julia has been working with small and medium sized entrepreneurial business across a wide range of industries for over twenty years. She is a chartered accountant, an economist and, most importantly, Mum to four fabulous children. www.thebusinessbakery.com.au/

Lara Solomon – Social Rabbit

Lara Solomon is a Telstra Award winning entrepreneur who brought Australia (and the world) the original mobile phone sock - Mocks in 2004 – now an iconic brand with over 1.6 million Mocks already sold worldwide in Australia, New Zealand, UK and USA.

In January 2010, after HUGE success with her Mocks brand on Facebook (12,000 fans in under 3 months and doubling of online sales), Lara saw that other businesses needed help with their social media. She created Social Rabbit as a way to offer education and consulting advice to businesses large and small. Her vision is to help businesses achieve their goals through social media.

http://www.socialrabbit.net/ www.facebook.com/socialrabbit

Rebecca Derington - Sourcebottle

Rebecca is an experienced public relations and marketing strategist, as well as a qualified drama coach and workplace trainer. These skills have helped her get results for clients for more than 13 years.

Before pursuing a career in public relations and marketing, Rebecca practised as a lawyer (for about three minutes), but quickly realised she was more passionate about public relations and marketing. So, she started over - completing a business degree and working up to executive and senior management marketing, public relations and corporate communication roles in the services sector. And she never looked back.

After the birth of her first child, Rebecca started her own public relations firm, Wagging Tongues. It was then that she recognised a need for a service that gave journalists and bloggers an opportunity to ‘call out’ for sources. She knew PR professionals and businesses would also benefit, since both could feel more confident their ‘pitches’ would bring about the desired outcome: highly coveted publicity and media attention.

Just over two years ago, Rebecca decided to create this service and deliver it to everyone for free.
www.sourcebottle.com.au/

Susan Pearse Mind Gardener

Author Susan Pearse is evangelical about improving minds – and not just her own. The Brisbane-based author is one of a small number of experts bringing the science of neuroplasticity –literally changing the way you think – to Australia. Through her latest joint entrepreneurial endeavor, Mind Gardener®, Susan translates this science into a series of step-by-step guides designed to help people through various stages of their lives.

http://www.mindgardener.com/

Monique Filer BBox

Monique is the co-founder of b.box for kids, the company behind b.box - the award winning range of innovative, stylish and practical everyday baby essentials. After having children, Monique quickly realised that her high flying role in the corporate world was not what she was looking for. She wanted an avenue where she could use her finance and operations expertise that also enabled her to achieve the sought after family/work balance. Monique oversees all finance, operations and manufacturing for b.box, including sourcing and managing suppliers, negotiating production terms, pricing, quality control and testing. To learn more about the b.box journey visit http://www.bbox.com.au/

Nick Bowditch The Bowditch Group

Nick is an Australian online success story. Basically broke and with his young family expanding quickly, Nick took one of the bravest – and best – decisions of his life and chucked in his city job to start his own travel business, working from home.

He built up that business from a customer database of just four when he started, to more than 4,500 a year later – all without staff, a shopfront, and without any mainstream advertising in print, radio or television – instead opting to promote his new business using Social Media Marketing.

http://thebowditchgroup.com/

Paula Kuhnemann Smart Women

From generating $1,000,000 in sales in her first 18 months with ‘nutrimetics international’ to founding and creating online magazine and community, ‘connect2mums’, with thousands of members within 6 months, Paula has mentored and inspired hundreds of Australian and New Zealand women to success with her motivation, inspiration, enthusiasm, passion and biz smarts!

Johanna Baker-Dowdell Strawberry Communications

Johanna Baker-Dowdell owns and runs Strawberry Communications, a writing and public relations service that generates amazing publicity. Strawberry Communications is based in Launceston and was launched in 2007. Johanna is also a freelance journalist and blogger.

For more information email johanna@strawberrycommunications.com.au or log on to http://www.strawberrycommunications.com.au/

Alycia Edgar Bookzkeeper

Alycia Edgar is a fully qualified accountant, systems specialist and small business owner who developed Bookzkeeper, an accounting solution for small businesses and their accountants, ensuring both receive the information needed to satisfy tax requirements in a timely way. For more information about Bookzkeeper and Alycia visit http://www.bookzkeeper.com.au/ and http://www.numbersarelife.com/

Peace Mitchell Connect2mums

Peace is the co-owner of connect2mums and co-author of 'The 7 secrets to Standing Out'. Peace is passionate about supporting mums and has also been responsible for co-founding non-profit organisation Mothers Helping Others, and co-authoring the book, "What I wish I knew before I became a mother'. Peace was awarded the Johnstone Shire Australia Day Citizen of the Year award in 2008 for her work with 'Mothers Helping Others' and was a Board Member of the Playgroup Queensland Board of Management from 2008 - 2010. Peace is a qualified teacher and has also worked in publishing and enjoys the opportunity Connect2mums provides for utilising the skills learnt in each of these trades. Peace is mum to three boys and uses her experience as a mother to mentor and support mums.

http://www.connect2mums.com.au/

Karen Gunton build a little biz

karen gunton is the builder of a little photography and design biz which she runs from home, called smile.play.love. she is passionate about helping other busy, talented mums kick ass with their little biz ideas and started build a little biz to do just that.

http://www.buildalittlebiz.com/

Helen Butler Clutter Rescue

Helen is an Accredited Expert Professional Organiser who is the Director of Clutter Rescue and Organise Your Site (http://www.organiseyoursite.com.au/). She is also the manager, director and social coordinator of her household, husband Scott and five year old son Toby.

http://www.clutterrescue.com.au/

Simone Outteridge Outer Edge Coaching

Simone has rounded business experience having operated an online business on one end of the scale and working in senior sales positions at a global multinational company on the other end of the scale! Simone is passionate about helping small business owners achieve their dreams.Being a wife & mum to her 17 month old son, she understands the challenges of juggling family & business life.

www.facebook.com/outeredgecoach

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Mumpreneurs Conference Presenter: Leah Squire

Leah Squire is founder and owner of internet based travel company BYOkids ...your family travel gurus.  Leah started the now multi million dollar business just over 3 years ago with a marketing budget of zero. http://www.byokids.com.au/ specialise in the niche market of family holidays.  BYOkids was awarded best new business in Australia in 2007 and best micro business in 2008.  Leah started the travel company out of frustration at not being able to find a travel consultant that understood that travelling with kids although rewarding has plenty of challenges and that good planning is essential for a family holiday.  Leah is also the author of "Marketing with No Money ....how to get your business the attention it deserves" where she shares the strategies she used to build her brand and business http://www.marketingwithnomoney.com/

We are so excited to have Leah present this topic at the Mumpreneurs Conference.
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Mumpreneurs Conference Presenter: Johanna Baker-Dowdell

Johanna Baker-Dowdell of Strawberry Communictions

Johanna has more than 15 years experience writing for newspapers, magazines, websites and blogs and 11 years in marketing and public relations in both Australia and the UK.

This experience includes interviewing, researching and writing for a range of different media and audiences, editing, proofreading, media and client liaison.


Johanna works with SME businesses, providing article writing, newsletters, press releases, blogs, copywriting, editing, ghost writing, media liaison, promotional opportunities including speaking and competitions and PR strategy through her business Strawberry Communications. Some of her current clients include G Corp Consulting, Footprint Recruitment, Web Chameleon, Milestone-Belanova and The Transcription People.

She has worked at many Cumberland Newspapers publications, including the Central Coast Express Advocate, Lake Macquarie Times, Hills Shire Times and The Glebe covering news, business real estate, government, entertainment and crime.
Johanna also writes for business publications including My Business, Australian Anthill and Dynamic Business and is regular contributor to Flying Solo. She has a weekly blog on the Parenting Australia website and has also written for the Brentwood Gazette, The Franchise Magazine, whichfranchise.com and The Scotsman in the UK, Kidz on the Coast, Business Mums Magazine and Essential Baby. Her eBook, The 21^st Century Guide to Promoting Your Small Business, was published in 2009.

Her marketing experience includes working as the Communications Manager for the BFA (British Franchise Association) and work with PANPA (Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association) as the Marketing Services Coordinator. In her time at the BFA, Johanna wrote articles, press releases and website copy, promoting the organisation and franchising as a business model, spoke about franchising at exhibitions and events, as well as media liaison as the BFA spokesperson.

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Mumpreneurs Conference Presenter: Susan Pearse

 

Author Susan Pearse is evangelical about improving minds – and not just her own. It’s a fact that her husband and two young toddlers will attest to, having lived and breathed the advice that Susan, along with fellow author Martina Sheehan, has made her life’s work.

 

The Brisbane-based author is one of a small number of experts bringing the science of neuroplasticity –literally changing the way you think – to Australia. Using scientific know how and drawing on her own personal experience, Susan specialises in translating the theory that explains how our minds change into simple, practical tools which can be applied to everyday situations – from parenting techniques to personal relationships.

 

As a working mother and entrepreneur, Susan understands better than most the challenges of juggling a busy career while still maintaining a rewarding and fulfilling family life – and the importance of taking timeout to reconnect with your partner, children and yourself on a daily basis.

 

“So many couples get caught up in their individual routines and forget to appreciate one another – fromthere it becomes all too easy to fixate on the negatives in a relationship. Cultivating your own mindsetso you think positively about your partner and recognize and avoid the signposts which lead to negativeattitudes and behaviours is actually very simple – it just requires a little awareness.

 

“Likewise, the way you interact with your children – even before birth – is all in the mind. Just a fewsimple mental exercises practiced on a regular basis can make all the difference in producing resilient,emotionally-balanced and happy children.

 

”Susan was born in Mackay in 1972 and moved to Brisbane to undertake a business degree at QUT.While her background is in consulting and facilitating organisational change, it wasn’t until meeting fellowmind fitness fanatic Martina Sheehan a decade ago that Susan began practicing techniques for training hermind and discovered where her real passion lay.

 

This new direction ultimately led to the creation of a highly successful consultancy business Reinvention,established in partnership with Sheehan in 2001. Reinvention has a reputation of transforming leaders,organizations and teams with ground-breaking brain based development programs.

 

It was through Reinvention’s involvement with the Mind and Life Institute and His Holiness the Dalai Lama that the pair became fascinated with the science of neuroplasticity – the concept that the humanbrain changes form and output over time and that individuals can cultivate their minds to improveperformance, increase happiness levels and ultimately change their lives.

 

Through their latest joint entrepreneurial endeavor, Mind Gardener®, Susan translates this science intoa series of step-by-step guides designed to help people through various stages of their lives. In fact, thehugely popular Bump to Baby Guide was written by Susan during her first pregnancy – and she practicedit religiously during her second a year later.

 

“I’m a firm believer in practicing what I preach – not only do my long-suffering family function as MindGardener’s official ‘field testers’, but I myself dedicate at least 20 minutes every day to exercising mymind. The beauty of it is that the exercises are seamlessly integrated into my daily routine – after morethan a decade of practice, it’s become as habitual as brushing my teeth.”

 

Susan enjoys days at the beach with her family and experimenting in the kitchen. She’s also busypracticing the mind exercises which will feature in Mind Gardener’s forthcoming range of guidesincluding the sought-after parenting guide.

 

Susan is presenting the following topics at the Mumpreneurs Conference

Setting Goals

Why does setting goals make such a difference to your motivation? By revealing simple and fascinating facts about your brain, we explain why having goals can make all the difference to your performance.

We are wired for complacency and distraction. Let’s face it, we regularly cook the same tried and tested meals, and we can’t help but check that new email no matter how busy we are! This session will make you more aware of your brain and the traps it lays for you every day. With new knowledge and practical exercises on setting and achieving goals, the future is yours for the taking.

Common Traps in Business

Yes, there is a lot to learn when starting or running your own business. But no matter how much others tell you or show you, you are bound to blaze a new trail. This session will arm you with the tools to recognise the common mindset traps that can trip up even the most well prepared or experienced person.

The business world is based on rational thinking…or so you thought! Evidence shows that biases, preferences and strange mindsets litter our decision-making and mostly go unrecognised. We will enlighten you to these traps and provide you with practical tools so you can catch them before they catch you.

If you would like to attend the 2010 Mumpreneurs Conference Tickets are avilable here

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Mumpreneurs Conference Presenter: Helen Butler

Helen Butler - Clutter Rescue

Helen Butler is an Accomplished Professional Organiser who is the Director of two Professional Organising businesses – Clutter Rescue and Organise Your Site. She is also the manager, director and social coordinator of her household, husband Scott and four year old son Toby.

Helen has had a varied professional life, originally training as a secondary school teacher but eventually finding her way into Primary School where she taught a variety of year levels over ten years. In this time Helen developed an interest in technology and integrated it effectively in her classroom as well as teaching colleagues through workshops and conferences how easy and fun technology could be!

After leaving teaching, and having just finished her Master’s degree, Helen worked at RMIT as an Educational Designer in the Online Teaching and Learning Unit, redesigning the Masters of Business Administration and Bachelor of Business for online teaching. After leaving this position she then worked at The Australian Children’s Television Foundation as an Education Officer, working with schools to implement software the Foundation had developed.

When Helen returned to Brisbane in 2004 she worked at The University of Queensland as an Instructional/Educational Designer before falling pregnant. Following maternity leave and a return to work Helen realised that there was now more to life – and thus Clutter Rescue was born.

Having always had the organising gene, the move to Professional Organising was a natural transition. Clutter Rescue’s goal is to provide each client with clutter-free physical spaces that are well designed, efficient and suit the client and their organising style. Our clients vary from working Mum’s to retirees however all have the same goals – to become (more) organised and to feel the benefits of this organisation.

When she has time Helen enjoys pilates, yoga and swimming. She loves spending time with her family and seeing the learnings that take place in her son every day. And one day she hopes to have enough time to schedule monthly facials!







Clutter Rescue provides a professional organising and decluttering service for busy households. We work with our clients to declutter their physical space, create an environment that is efficient and harmonious, and supports the organising goals and style of our clients.

Clutter Rescue has four different services to choose from – Clutter Rescue Consultation, DIY Clutter Rescue, Virtual Clutter Rescue and Full Clutter Rescue. We also run workshops, teaching skills to organise your home, office and life, allowing you to create calm, save money and have more time for the things you love.

Clutter Rescue website – http://www.clutterrescue.com.au/

Mumpreneur Conference Workshop Presentation

Title: The 3 ½ secrets to Time Management for Mumpreneurs

Description

Ever felt like you’re juggling too many balls? Do you manage to run your business, look after your family, AND look after yourself? Is your daily schedule planned so that you can reach the goals you want personally and professionally, or do you work through your ‘to do’ list putting out fires?

Running a business, family and home takes great energy, patience, compassion, mutual respect and most importantly time management skills.

In this presentation you will learn the secrets to time management for Mumpreneurs – 3 ½ secrets to be precise! You will learn:
to recognise what’s important to achieve your personal and business goals

simple but effective time management strategies

how to schedule yourself into your diary (yes, it is possible!)

Tickets to the Mumpreneurs Conference are available to purchase here!

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Mumpreneurs Conference Presenter: Nick Bowditch

Nick Bowditch: The Bowditch Group

Nick is going to tell his story of how he built up three successful small businesses in less than 2 years without spending a cent on conventional marketing or any traditional advertising and how you can do it too.

Nick is an Australian online success story.  Basically broke and with his young family expanding quickly, Nick took one of the bravest – and best – decisions of his life and chucked in his  city job to start his own travel business, working from home.

He built up that business from a customer database of just four when he started, to more than 4,500 a year later – all without staff, a shopfront, and without any mainstream advertising in print, radio or television – instead opting to promote his new business using Social Media Marketing.

In the last year, he has gone from having one online business to three, his e-books and electronic products have now been downloaded thousands of times, and he is now a sought-after keynote speaker for small business seminars and the author of The Business of Being David - How to use social media to make your small business big which is now in its 4th print run.

At the conference, Nick is going to tell us his story, discuss the different social media marketing options he used to build his businesses including Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and FourSquare and how you can also use these media to help you compete with the bigger, longer-established and better-funded businesses out there. The title of his presentation at the conference is "How to use social media to make your small business big".

Find out more about Nick here: www.thebowditchgroup.com
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Mumpreneurs Conference Presenter: Tanya Love

Tanya Love - Love Bytes Photography

Tanya Love was going to be a lot of things when she grew up, but never did she dream that one of them would be a photographer. A scientist, yes, a lawyer, maybe, arty farty photographer type, no!

But Mother Nature had other plans and one day, Tanya became a mum. Almost immediately, she found herself with camera in hand a LOT. Pretty soon, Tanya felt as though she was born to be a photographer, and came to realise just how much she loved colour, and light, and cute little faces smiling back at her! Putting them all together was the easy part, learning the techie stuff was not!

After a embarking on a steep learning curve including a lot of online mentoring from some notable international photographers, a trip to the USA, and a whole lot of reading, Tanya embarked upon a busy career as a wedding photographer and make-up artist, regularly flying interstate for her growing client base. Fast forward a few years, and Tanya temporarily "retired" from photography when it became clear that shooting 2 or 3 weddings every weekend just didn't suit a mum of 5 kids. Tanya instead returned to University, to commence a degree in Community Development and Child Welfare and started an online eco-business to pay the bills.

Even so, photography never was too far away with Tanya shooting products for her own website and taking on the role as the sole photographer for the International brand of organic kids clothing, Bacche, that her company was distributing in Australia.

But it seems that photography always was Tanya’s calling and late last year, she returned to it with a new found energy and enthusiasm! This time, it is different though. Now with over 10 years of photographic experience and knowledge to her credit, and many lessons learned, Tanya is avoiding the wedding game, and instead is making waves in the commercial industry as a unique and eclectic photographer of kid and baby products. Henceforth came the inception of Love Bytes – http://www.lovebytes.com.au/

Tanya’s style is vibrant, whimsical and bold. Quirkiness and “out there” have become her trade mark and her images are often instantly recognisable due to their intense colour saturation, distinctive styling and diverse use of posing ideas.

Currently, Tanya’s ever-growing client list includes international brands such as Agoo Canada and Bacche, with many smaller boutique brands closer to home also benefiting from her unique style. Tanya is also in the throes of the production of a series of instructional guides, sharing the secrets of product photography, photo editing basics and children’s photography in a way that is aimed at women, and which cuts through the technical jargon and teaches in a way that any woman truly appreciates!

Never without a long term project on the horizon, Tanya has recently embarked on a very special venture in a bid to raise awareness and much needed funds to assist in preventing child abuse and neglect in Australia. The project is called “Great Expectations” and aims to be a beautiful presented journal of black and white images showcasing intimate moments in the lives of well-known Australian celebrities and sports people. All profits raised from the project will go to ACT For Kids which is an amazing organisation that works with families and children at risk of child abuse and neglect in putting their lives back together.

Above and beyond it all, Tanya is a mum to 5 little cherubs that make her smile both inside and out during every moment of every day. Tanya is excited to be speaking at the Connect2Mums Mumpreneur Conference in 2010, and looks forward to sharing what she has learned with all of the wonderful, hard-working mums that she will meet there!

If you'd like to attend the 2010 Mumpreneurs Conference tickets are available now, click here for details and to book your ticket.

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