Get It Done Business Mum:

Do you feel overwhelmed by the pressures of being a Mum sometimes? Or perhaps you put unrealistic pressure on yourself to be the absolute best mum you can be, forgetting that you are only human and sometimes it ain't always going to go to plan?!!! Gervase Kolmos of Shiny Happy Human shares how she deals with the pressures that come along with being a modern-day Mum as we try to do and be it all, and how she helps other Mums in her Mommy Soul Tribe cope with the pressures as a mum life coach. As Gervase says, Motherhood is definitely challenging (and really messy) but beautiful, if you know how to focus on what really matters and stay true to yourself. As each experience (and challenge) is unique for each Mum, we need to stop comparing ourselves to other Mums, and instead find encouragement and support from one another. Learn how to be guilt-free, let go of unrealistic expectations, and embrace your role as a Mum no matter how far from perfect you may be in this inspiring chat between Jo and Gervase. You can watch or listen-in to the interview here ->> http://www.getitdonemum.com/e049/ #GervaseKolmos #ShinyHappyHuman #MommySoulTribe #mumpreneurs #mumcoach #lifecoach #getitdonemum

Creating a balance between your business and family life is no simple task. Having a business is like nursing a baby - you have to give your full attention to it but you also have to have a REAL relationship with your spouse and kids. It can be tough to do both of these things well, as we're sure many of you know! In this week's episode, Tarisha Tourok of Deeply In Love Again, shares her journey from being an unhappy accountant who felt disconnected with her former partner, to a relationship coach full of energy and enthusiasm for her new life and highly successful coaching business. Don't miss this interview as she reveals how to get the mojo back in your relationship, and how to approach a partner who is not supportive of your business. Learn more by watching the interview here--> http://www.getitdonemum.com/e048/

Ready to discover Maria Foy's tips for building a social media following? If you've spent weeks, months or even years posting content but haven't got a good number of followers, then this interview is for you! Maria Foy started the Happy Mum Happy Child page on Facebook 2 years ago, reached her target of 10,000 followers in the first year and now has over 50,000 followers! Amazing, right? Plus Maria achieved it while taking care of a baby and toddler all at the same time! Find out how posting her activities with her kids grew into a hub of information, making Maria a well-known mum on social media. Watch the full interview here >> http://www.getitdonemum.com/e047 #MariaFoy #HappyMumHappyChild #blog #audience #mumpreneurs #getitdonemum

Do you own an online store or run a product-based online business?

After deciding that she wanted to convert her passion for swaddles and sleep into a business that would secure her family's future, today's podcast guest Louise Tanguay has since gone on to launch and grow The Sleep Store, a highly successful online shop devoted to helping tired parents find sleep solutions for their kids. The Sleep Store is now recognized as one of the best online retailers in New Zealand and Australia with over 50k customers in their database and a huge product range. How did Louise manage this? What business strategies and tools does she use to keep her business growing, and how has she built such a loyal following of customers who continue to buy from The Sleep Store again and again? Find out the inside story by watching or listening to her interview.

For the full show notes, including links mentioned, please visit http://www.getitdonemum.com/e046/.

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Do you have a clear business blueprint but gets stuck in building your website? Neta Talmor has worked with so many entrepreneurs and realized most of them are having difficulty when it comes to building their own website, which prompted her to launch the No Hassle Website. For someone who has created so many websites, Neta has mastered the formula for a website that sells. In this podcast episode she shares with us some great tips in building a website. Neta also provided website critique to point out the things to avoid, what to focus on, and how to make the visitors stay and become interested in what you offer. Learn more by watching the interview here ->> http://www.getitdonemum.com/e045/

Do you struggle to convert your hard-earned Facebook likes to new business? Perhaps your target clients are on LinkedIn, but you're finding it hard to connect with them?

Our guest for today, Vanessa Leota, has a knack for finding clients on social media, growing her virtual assistant business from a solo, part-time practice to a multi-VA company in a very short period of time at low-cost, by connecting with her ideal clients on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.

In this interview, Vanessa shares her top tips for connecting directly with clients on social media, so that you can do it too!

Facebook Ads - a source of confusion and stress? 

We know that many of you are playing around with Facebook Ads and getting mixed results. Vanessa also shares her personal experience and success running Facebook Ads, and reveals how you can make them work for you.

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Outsourcing poses a dilemma for mumpreneurs. On one hand, you know that you need extra hands to get all your tasks done. There's a blog post waiting to be proofed and formatted but you can't get it to it because you're busy connecting with potential clients on Facebook. Meanwhile, there are dozens of emails sitting in your inbox and a stack of bills that have to be recorded and filed. To have a virtual assistant helping with all these tasks would be lovely.

On the other hand, you're not sure if you have the budget to hire extra help. That money could go to a new website which you've been saving up for a while now, and you might not even be paying yourself much (if anything) yet so it's hard to justify paying someone else. And what about your concern about letting someone else into the business. You've heard too many horror stories about outsourcing and you'd rather not deal with the stress. Can she or he take care of your customers like you do? What if they make a mistake or disappear on you?

If you can relate to these thoughts, you're not alone! The push pull about outsourcing is a strong one.

We faced this dilemma in our early business days and we knew we needed to outsource long before we were finally able to take the plunge - and we never looked back! Now, we have a team of virtual assistants supporting us in different aspects of our business, allowing us to work 25 hours a week combined.

It's such a relief to know that you've got capable people working on your business while you're taking care of the parts of the business that you love and generating more income, or spending some quality time with your kids.

We want you to experience the same bliss so we have invited our good friend, Justine Parsons of Your Virtual Assistant, to walk us through the key steps to getting started with outsourcing. Justine has been in the business of providing virtual support for the last 18 years and is one of our most trusted partners. She started out as a solo practitioner (and struggled to outsource herself!) but now she has a whole team of VA's supporting her numerous clients.  She's the perfect person to help you break through any barriers you might have stopping you from outsourcing and walk you through the process of hiring your very first virtual assistant.  And if you've been burned by a virtual assistant before, Justine will help you figure out where you went wrong so you'll be able to hire the right person the next time around.

Are you ready to get the help that you need? Watch or listen now!

To access the full show notes, please visit http://www.getitdonemum.com/e042.

How one Mum built a highly profitable 4 hour week business Tim Ferris Style with Sophie Howard

Sophie started her business two years ago, selling products in the United States through Amazon. The first few products were sold pretty fast, so she re-invested all the profits to sell more products. Now, she has over 300 products on Amazon, and works on the business for only four hours a week!

Maximizing Resources

For Sophie, Amazon is a very good platform for business. She discussed how Amazon pretty much takes care of everything when it comes to selling the goods. All Sophie has to do is choose products that will sell, ship the products directly to Amazon, and wait for the profit every two weeks when her products are sold.

Since Amazon's business structure has been proven to work favorably for Sophie, she's not keen on advertising her products on Facebook or other platforms. For her, Amazon already does the job, and advertising on Facebook would only cost her time and money.

Hollywood Tea Party

Sophie's products were such a hit that she got invited to the Oscars for her tea. A celebrity chef wanted to be her brand ambassador and the products were featured in a couple of TV shows in the US, putting her and her products on the spotlight. Isn't that enough proof of how successful her tea brand is?

Paying it forward

Because of the success of her business on Amazon, Sophie now helps New Zealand companies sell their products globally. She also offers an online course and coaching sessions for those who want to get on the right track in building a business through Amazon. What better way to learn the tricks of the trade than from someone who actually made it big?

Can't wait to find out more about the success story of Sophie's 4-hour week business? Listen to the fill interview here.

If you are a Mum building a business part-time you have to be smart and maximise your productivity.

The cry  'if only I had more time' is one that we hear so often from our Mums that we decided to dedicate today's episode to sharing our tips around productivity for Mums, because like you we work part-time, from home.

At the moment, Jo works around 8 hours a week and J9 works 15-20 hours so between us,  it's still not equivalent to one full-time position!  In this time, we manage a team, host a video podcast, deliver our coaching programmes (VIP coaching, mastermind groups, webinars and workshops) AND juggle the other admin and marketing sides of running a business online.

And we get that you are just like us. Whatever stage of business you are at, start-up or established, you are juggling a heck of lot in your part-time hours too. So that's why we have dedicated this episode to sharing our take on productivity, specifically for Mums who are working part-time and who don't have 40 or 50 hours a week to build a business.

Regular content creation is SO hard to fit in alongside everything else!

As we've said, we know what it's like to struggle to fit everything in - and that was before we threw a video podcast into the mix!  Perhaps we were crazy to start a podcast, but we know that if we want to continue attracting regular, high quality leads we need to be putting out regular, high quality content.

But there's a big BUT that comes along with that because whether it's a podcast, blog posts, videos or whatever it is you decide you love to do when it comes to creating content, scheduling in the time to create, edit and post that  content can be extremely challenging when you have 20 hours or less a week to work.

Even though we have a team supporting us and we were ahead on interviews when we started our podcast, it didn't take long until we started to slip behind and eventually, we had a content crisis on our hands! No matter what we did, we didn't seem to be able to hit our goal to get ahead by two months.

Enter Amy Porterfield and her productivity tips

We knew we needed to do a better job of prioritizing content creation and increasing our productivity, so that we could let go of the extra stress that came along with being behind.  So, who better to advise us than the content creation queen herself Natalie Sisson, who suggested that we listen in to Amy Porterfield's recent podcast episode about How to Create Content Rituals to Get More Done.

It resonated with us  but...

To be clear, we took away several brilliant tips from Amy's podcast episode. Here are just a few:

• Amy's outline of her daily planning sessions
• Drawing a line in the sand to NOT CHECK YOUR EMAIL first thing in the morning (hugely distracting and we've added FB to that list!)
• Amy's concept of Tiger Time, freaking brilliant! The setting aside of regular time for content creation in your calendar, where everything is switched off and you focus solely on creation. We absolutely LOVE this idea and have implemented immediately.

But there was a voice in the back of our heads that kept saying.....wait a minute, Amy's approach doesn't quite fit for us because we are Mums working part-time. Amy talked about working long hours daily, and work planning sessions on a Sunday evening in what sounded like a pretty long working week for her, around the 40, 50 hour mark at least. But that's not possible for us (or should we say, we choose not to).

So what do you do if you don't have that many hours to work? Can you be highly productive in even less time? 

We think the answer is yes, and that having less time actually forces you to be even more productive. And when we thought this through, we realised that we have actually done it! When we started out in business, we didn't have children yet. We had more time. Between us, we were probably working more than 60 hours week.

Looking back now, we often wonder to ourselves "What the heck were we doing with all that time?"!!! Now that we have chosen to have children and work even less hours, we've realised that we have not lost productivity but gained it. When it comes to results, we think we achieve much more now in our combined 20 hours or so than we ever did when we had the luxury of 60 hours and no kids!

Our tips for increasings your productivity and decreasing overwhelm, in less hours

That brings us back to this podcast episode, where we share what we have learnt so far about maximising your productivity in part-time hours, without losing yourself in the process. We're not saying we don't go a little crazy at times (we don't always get it right!) but we can say that in the 5 or 6 years we have been doing this so far, we have learnt a lot about what is important to prioritise, what needs to be let go of, and how to be super-smart about getting results.

So in this episode, we talk you through the top strategies and tools that have helped us cut down our work hours from 40-60  to 15-20 hours a week. There won't be any theories in here; we'll share with you the actual tools that our team is using to produce weekly podcasts, email newsletters,  and monthly webinars. Are you ready to learn what those strategies are? Watch or listen now!

With so many marketing strategies to implement, how do you decide which one to use? Do you look for the most cost-effective? Are you looking for one that's the least time-consuming? Perhaps you're looking for something that has the potential to go viral. If you answered yes to all three then consider video marketing.

Video marketing has been around for quite a while but statistics show that only a small percentage of businesses are using it. We think it's largely because of the fact that not many people are comfortable in front of the camera. Also, there's the prep work: you have to fix your hair, put on a bit of makeup, ensure yu have the correct lighting, create some slides, etc. Video seems to be a lot of work.

Our guest for today, Melissa Groom of Empowered Mums, seems to disagree however. A video markerting specialist, Melissa shows us that video is only as complicated and hard as you want to be. You can literally wake up every morning, shoot a video and you're done. You just need to know what tools and platform to use so you can reach your target audience.

And once you've gotten your initial fear of being in front of the camera, you will see the results of your efforts immediately. In Melissa's case, she got new clients two weeks after starting with video. Now, she teaches video marketing through her 30-day video marketing challenge program. You'll get an overview of this program and more when you listen to this interview.