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How to Grow Your Home Business in a Sustainable Way
Aussie mums are finding better ways to join the economy and build careers without sacrificing their motherhood duties. 7 per cent of mums are self-employed and building their own business from their home. The global shutdown driven by COVID-19 will forever reshape how...
How To Build A Pandemic-Proof Career As A Full-time Mum
As the global economy unifiedly comes to suspension at an unprecedented scale, the remote or work-from-home culture that has been on the rise since the boom of startups in 2012 is being recognised as the new future. Some predict that the current Covid-19 quarantine...
How to Become a Work at Home Bookkeeper
If you have ever worked as a bookkeeper or in some similar capacity, you can work at home keeping the books for local or online businesses. This is an ideal position for the work at home mum who wants to make a nice income but who wants to work exclusively at home. To...
50 Best Freelancing Ideas
Many mums looking for a great work from home option choose freelancing. Freelancing in effect involves you setting yourself up to do certain tasks for individuals and businesses who need assistance – either on an ongoing or one-off basis, depending on their...
How to Get Your Employer to Allow you to Work From Home
It’s a tense moment when you ask the question about working from home. You worry your boss or colleagues won’t take you seriously; that they will suspect you are looking for an excuse to slack off. You wonder whether it’s too good to be true; if all those people who...
How to Work from Home Productively with Kids
Staying on task can be a challenge when you work from home. The children are fighting, your partner is nagging you, and the dog is making circles around the front door needing to be walked. So how do you deal with the constant interruptions when you work from home?...
How to Study After Having Children
Studying anything with success is time consuming. It is especially difficult if you have other commitments like working or raising kids. Making the decision to study after having children can be tough, more so if they are young, but it can also be very rewarding....
Back to School Budgeting Tips
It’s school holiday time! And while your kids enjoy time away from school, it will be gone before you know it which leads to the other problem parents face during school holidays…. back to school shopping. Back to school time can cost a fortune. And if you're not...
5 Ways to Make Your Home Based Business More Sustainable
Even if you don’t take any other steps, working from home is already quite a sustainable practice. You don’t burn fossil fuels commuting to work; and, in many cases, you also don’t need to maintain a separate career wardrobe. So, as a work-at-home mum, you’re already...
75 Fun Activities to do at Home with Kids
School holidays, weekends, and over the last few years, lockdowns. There's so many times you might want to to entertain kids and you don't have to spend much money, or go out on endless outings to do it. "Mum... I'm bored!" How many times have you heard that lately?...
When do I Need to Charge GST in My Business?
One of the most confusing things about running a business in Australia is whether or not you need to charge GST on your invoices. You may think that just because you have an ABN (Australian Business Number) and people are charging you GST that you need to do the same,...
Tips for Going Back to Work After Maternity Leave
Maternity leave - blink and you might miss it. With everything that goes on in the first months of having a new baby your maternity leave can sometimes feel extremely short. Most mums have mixed feelings when your leave is coming to an end and you are eyeing your...