Do you need some PR advice? We’re a Motivating Mum mentor

If you’re not familiar with Motivating Mum yet, let us introduce you. Motivating Mum gives support and advice to mums in business. They run some really fabulous events like speed mentoring and brainstorms in a teacup. It’s a great way to meet likeminded women and get really inexpensive business advice. Throughout March, the Motivating Mum team is running Mummy Mentoring Month in which …

World Book Day – 3 little products to encourage reading

It’s World Book Day today.  My children love books. But there’s the hypnotic pull of the television, their DS games, my ipad, the computer and the wii, which all vie for their attention. It’s a permanent battle of screen vs books. But there are some great ways to encourage kids to read or look at books instead of  a screen. First of all, support …

Feedback we’d like to share

We got called by a PR agency this week in need of some help with a project in which they needed to reach mums. On a tight deadline, we had to help them understand the best way to reach mums and how to do it. Now I’ve got tell you that doing work for another PR agency is always a little …

Why kids ruin your PR career. Not always

I read this blog post from Hacked Off Flack today called ‘Why kids ruin your PR career’ . The author had a poorly child and was wondering how to tell the boss that he/she wasn’t going to make it into work. The piece had some interesting insights into why kids ruin your PR career. And a lot of what was said is …

Fab job opportunity for mums looking for better work/life balance

Tots to Travel is a long standing client of ours. And if we weren’t so busy doing their (and other people’s PR) we’d be very interested in this job opportunity that they’re advertising. Here are just some of the benefits: – being self-employed (no more begging for time off from disinterested bosses) – having the flexibility to work around (or …

How to be a good client

Well it’s been straight back into it here at Peekaboo HQ this year. Barely time for a cup of tea much less a blog post. But to kick things off in 2011, we thought we’d tell it like it is. And our first top tip for this year is: how to be a good client. If you pay someone to …

5 questions every start up should answer – before you invest in PR

I spent the day yesterday acting as a mentor to 16 business women in a Speed Mentoring session run by Motivating Mum. It was fascinating finding out about their businesses – so many fantastic ideas. It was also mentally exhausting deep diving into 16 different businesses in 8 minutes segments! But no matter what their business, I found myself saying the …

Christmas pressie for your business: the top parenting press contacts

If you have children, you’ve probably already been given a long list of what they want for Christmas. You might even have had a few ideas of things you’d like for yourself (cashmere jumper or sparkly necklace?). But have you thought about what your business might like? While a new office chair or colour printer would be nice, what is going …

So summer’s over, what about Oct half term then?

This year I have gone slightly long on the holiday front so I don’t think we’re going to go anywhere this October half term, but for families who are looking for somewhere to go, I have just the place. Incidentally, it’s also the perfect spot for families who are lucky enough to be able to travel outside of school holidays, …

Life is too short to commute

Before I set up Peekaboo, I used to work in a big PR company in London. Every day I travelled for an hour each way – that’s 2 hours a day, 10 hours a week or 40 hours a month travelling. 40 hours a month is equivalent to a full time job. I hated it. And once I had children, it became …