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As part of our series on improving your blog, this week we focus on monetizing your blog. What better place to get information on how to set up your blog to make it attractive to PR’s than from a successful PR? Here we interview Kerry Jean Lister, Social Campaign Director for Doco. BritMums: As a [...]

It seems I neglected to start a discussion this week over in the forum, so I have no fodder in the form of your wonderful input from which to construct a well-balanced, interesting, topical, thought-provoking post I wondered where all my BritMums emails had gone! So instead I will begin a new topic here, which [...]

Professional blogger and eBook expert, Erica Douglas shares some valuable tips for turning your knowledge into a profitable eBook.  Got a successful blog but wondering what to do next?  Creating and selling your own eBook is the perfect next step. You’ve already honed your voice and built your audience so creating something to sell is [...]

Recently, in Spending a fortune on ovulation kits Heather told us about her difficulties conceiving her first child. After that experience, Heather and her husband couldn’t have known the near impossibility of having a second child. Here, Heather shares the rest of her story in hopes that it helps others trying to conceive. Since it [...]

I’m baaaaccckkkkk! Well, I’m back with BritMums Blog Prompts that is! Did you miss me? No? Oh. Darn. Well, you’ll have to put up with me a teeny bit while I give you a bit of inspiration for the week ahead. I know I’m in need of it! When thinking about blog prompts for this [...]

Welcome to my first photography blog round up for BritMums! Today, I want to focus on the topic of inspiration. I used to spend heaps of money on pictorial coffee table books. Let’s put it this way: I’d need an awful lot of coffee tables to display my library and it got to the point [...]

Family Quest app update Hey BritMums! It’s been a while since we updated you about Family Quest, the pirate themed app we developed as part of our ‘On the Go Mum’s’ campaign. Well, good news as it seems to have reached the heady heights of 400 downloads and counting. It’s currently being downloaded around 15 [...]

A few months ago I asked my readers why they read blogs. I was in the inevitable blog doldrums, no motivation to blog, and felt no sense of inspiration. I wanted to know what it was all about and why I should bother. I wrote a post, asked my readers ‘Why do you read blogs?’ [...]

On Wednesday BritMums attended the Johnson & Johnson Beauty Care Journalism Awards at RIBA in London. (Special thanks to Family Affairs and Other Matters who was our fabulous plus-one.) An impressive array of beauty journalists was in attendance, from publications ranging from The Financial Times, The Times, The Stylist, Stylist, Psychologies, European Cosmetic Markets, ElleUK.com [...]

Clare Macnaughton, who blogs at A Modern Military Mother, has been featured in Get Hampshire about her speaking engagement at BritMums Live! alongside Ruby Wax, Sarah Brown and Carla Buzasi of the Huffington Post. The article highlights Clare’s blog, her bi-monthly column with Wiltshire Life magazine, and the book she ghost wrote, called ‘Immediate Response’, in conjunction with a serving Royal Marine Major, [...]