Swine Flu vaccination

I had my swine flu jab last week and although my arm hurt for a few days I am so glad that I've had it.

I took my 4 year old too, as we both have athsma, we were on the priority list.

I must admit that I had had some doubts about having it but luckily I work for the lovely Southdowns Private Healthcare GP's who have been blogging about how safe it is.

They really have helped me to feel more reassured and hope that they can reassure you too. You can read their blog Making time for your health you can also see their latest news release at Swine Flu Vaccination in pregnancy

What's Stopping You?

I've Just got back from a fantastic Business Link event for women starting their own businesses called What's stopping you?

It a great title as it remind us to keep asking ourselves : what is stopping us from following our dreams?

It was a fantastic atmosphere with loads of positive women starting out on that journey into the unknown.

I was lucky enough to be asked to speak on the "She means business" panel and talked about my experince of starting out and setting up morph pr and marketing alongside 3 other female entrapreunurs.

All 4 of us had the same message which was "life is too short to do something that you're not passionate about, so if you want to do something - go for it"

I met lots of potential new customers too who are thinking about business names and branding and the same kinds of questions kept on coming up.

In fact what seemed to be stopping a lot of the women was the lack of a name for their business.

My advice was this:

1. When choosing a business name it's great to write a list of your business values and image values across the top of a piece of paper and potential names down the left hand side.

2. Score each name out of 10 for each criteria.

3. Once you have scored them add up your values and choose the name with the highest value....unless of course you then realise that you are really disappointed in which case, that should tell you which name you really wanted anyway!

Finally you might want to check that you can get a corresponding domain name from somewhere like 123-reg and that if you are going to be a limited company it is availble to register with companies house

I have got to say that Liz from Henry & Jayne was a brilliant speaker!

Her speech brought a tear to my eye as she talked about her journey setting up her company in India which ploughs it's profits back into the local community paying for operations and schooling for members of her team.

She was amazing and her products are lovely too. I am def going to buy some of her fab felt cars for my boys.

Ruth from The Lady Gardener was also a star as was Karen from

Now I better get on and write my free Marketing newsletter......