The Babyworld Parentpreneur Award

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Remote Employment is delighted to announce The Babyworld Parentpreneur Award, where parents who are self employed, run their own home business or any Small or Large Business that employs a remote or home working team can enter and win a holiday! 

Haven are delighted to provide an Annabel Karmel break with Prestige Accomodation as the main prize for this Award!

Win a Haven Holiday

Win a  four night ‘Tops for Tots’ break staying  in ‘Prestige’ accommodation on a Haven Holiday park worth £500!

Haven Holidays have 35 parks around the UK in some stunning coastal and country locations. 

They are perfect for families with a wide range of first class facilities, entertainment and activities.

All the parks have heated indoor and outdoor swimming pools; pool activities including their acclaimed ‘Learn2Swim’ programme for children.

There's plenty to keep you active from fencing, archery and football (including mini-versions for younger children); kid’s clubs (for all ages) and daily entertainment that ranges from pantos and wrestling to talent contests, music , dancing and cabaret.

As part of their programme for younger children, Haven have arranged a number of special four night breaks aimed at Mums, Dads and Under-5’s. 

The Parentpreneur  winner and their family will be able to choose any of Haven’s ‘Tops for Tots’ breaks in 2011.

These are likely to include ‘Fun & Fitness’ breaks with lots of extra activities to encourage little ones to keep active.

‘Creative Cooking’ breaks with a whole programme of food related fun and ‘Character birthdays’, with an invite to join Rory the Tiger, Bradley Bear, Anxious the Elephant and all their friends when they celebrate their birthdays.

There’s plenty of choice of dates and destinations for you to choose from!

The winner will stay in a comfortable and well-equipped  two or three bedroom ‘Prestige’ holiday home  sleeping  up to six people and will be able to enjoy the facilities and entertainment on their chosen park.

The prize in subject to Haven Holidays standard terms and conditions, is non-transferable and no cash alternative will be offered.

For more information on Haven Holidays and the special breaks click on www.haven.com or call 0871 230 1900. 

The Babyworld Parentpreneur Award
Criteria: Parent (s) showing the most successful business and family life combination

* Must be a parent/guardian of babies or children – i.e. parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, foster carer
* Must have started their business as a result of having children (birth) or from a direct result of caring for babies and children and therefore wanting a business with a family based lifestyle
* Must have started their business in the last 5 years
* Can be a global or UK business
* Must be a member of babyworld.co.uk.  Registering on the site is free for both individuals or businesses
Click to join babyworld http://www.babyworld.co.uk/register/register.asp

Runner Up Prizes:

Grow Your Business Package for 2 Runners up to the value of £450

Includes:
* Business Mentoring – £200 of individual mentoring with Antonia Chitty. An initial session to work out where you are at and the key business issues you’d like to address, plus a follow up session.
*Online business development programme - £100 – six months access to a programme to help you break through business barriers and increase your profits
* Over £50 worth of books by Antonia Chitty – the Mumpreneur Guide’s Start Your Own Business book, A guide to Promoting Your Business, plus e-books The Mumpreneur’s Guide to Moving Your Business Forward, and the Mumpreneur’s Guide to Online Business Success.
*A profile on Family Friendly Working worth £97

About Antonia Chitty
Antonia Chitty is an award winning entrepreneur and author. She changed the way she worked after the birth of her daughter, choosing to set up ACPR so she could combine training businesswomen to do their own PR and being in control of her working hours.  Antonia now offers advice and mentoring for mums starting and developing a business alongside continuing to run ACPR and writing on business, health and parenting.

* Inspirational Business Mum of the Year 2009
* Finalist: Women on Their Way Awards
* Finalist: Switched On Awards
* Nominated: The MAD blog awards
* Freelance Writer and Author of books including: A guide to Promoting Your Business - The Mumpreneur Guide

Finalist Prizes
A finalist will receive a copy of Paula Wynne's book 'Create a Successful Website', published in Autumn 2010. Read more about Paula's biog here.

Create A Successful Website ...
is aimed at new business start ups, small businesses and individual business owners who see the benefit of some sound ‘Do It Yourself’ advice.

As a Do It Yourself enthusiast, Paula Wynne shares a set of ‘DIY’ ethics to help you avoid online potholes and guide you into creating a successful online business.

Do it Yourself Websites has extremely comprehensive chapters on keywords and how to use them as well as search engine optimisation (SEO) and how to become Googles No 1 with on page and off page optimisation.

What you’ll learn when you read this book:
* Planning, research and branding
* Free websites, hosted sites and bespoke development
* Finding content and earning revenue
* Keywords and search engine optimisation
* How to become Google's No 1
* Go live and marketing your site.

Jam packed with:
* To Dos
* Pros and Cons
* Bulleted lists
* Checklists
* Questions to ask
* Dos and Don’ts
* Expert’s advise
 
This down to earth book will give you the basics of creating a successful online business or web presence, plus a good foundation in which to direct your online business.

About The Author

After a career as a publicist and marketer, , Paula Wynne is now an award-winning businesswoman, an online entrepreneur, woman's ambassador, speaker and a panelist.

Paula is Co Founder of Remote Employment, a job board that champions remote and home working. And she is the organiser of The Remote Worker Awards, in association with BT Business. 

Workshops:
If you don't want to wait for the book to hit the bookstores and Amazon sales in August 2010, why not sign up for a workshop or masterclass.

Or win a free workshop.

Paula's Business Awards:
* Winner of BT Small Business Week 'Responsible Business Day' Award
* Winner of BT FreshIdeas Events Mentor Competition
* Nominated Top 100 Business in Barclays Trading Places Award
* Runner Up in the Enterprise Challenge in the 2009 Enterprising Women Awards
* Finalist for Best Online Business in Women on their Way Awards

Questions you will need to answer:

1. Demonstrate Your Home Based Business.
* What does your business do? When did your business start up and why? What is innovative or unique about your family business? Give an example of a family or parenting issue you have had to overcome to get your business started. Please show the issues or events surrounding the reasons why your business started, possibly as a result of having children (birth) or from a direct result of caring for babies and children and therefore wanting a business with a family based lifestyle.
 
2. Why should you be Home Business of the Year?
* Why does your business deserve to win the Babyworld Parentpreneur Award?
* What impact have you made on commerce or customers?
* Use this opportunity to show our judges why what is unique in your business and how it relates and resonates with the parenting or baby community.
 
3. Your Parentpreneur Business in Action.
* How many employees do you have?
* What percentage are home or remote workers?
* What remote technology drives your business?
* What is the biggest impact remote or home working had on your business? Please give details of why you feel you have the most engaging parenting business.

Early entrants who are shortlisted as a Semi Finalist will benefit from extra publicity!

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