Q&A Template
Hey there! We’d love to feature your business right here on MumsClub, so tell us all about yourself here.
Simply copy and paste these questions into an email and send it over with at least one landscape photo.
Remember, this is just a guide, you can answer all or some of the questions, it’s fine to skip some, especially if you answer one in another question, or you can add your own. We just want to learn a little more about you and your business.
- Incude a link and your SEO keywords.
- Add a landscape photo.
- Ensure it is not a sales piece; we want to know the person behind the business.
- Email it over to news@mumsclub.co.uk
And that’s it!
Name: xxx
Age range: up to 20 / 30 Something / 40 Something / 50 Something / 0ver 60.
Children’s age range: newborn / toddler / primary age / teens / grown up.
Business Name: xxx
Key concept & features of your business: xxx
Website: xxx
Twitter: xxx
Facebook: xxx
Starting Out:
When did you start up in business and what was your motivation?
How did you decide what business to go into?
How did you come up with the business idea?
How did you go about setting the business up?
How did you fund it?
Did you have a business plan from day one?
What were the easiest and hardest aspects to setting up?
What was your previous life? Did you use skills from your previous working life or were you going into the unknown (please expand where possible.)
Juggling Family & Business Life:
Did you have children when you started up?
Has working and raising a family been challenging? How do you manage to juggle your business with family life?
As a business mum, what are the pro’s…and con’s?
How do your children feel about you working from home running your own business?
Your Business:
What stage is your business at now?
What has been your biggest business achievement?
As an entrepreneur/business owner, what problems have you encountered and how did you overcome them?
How do you market the business?
What’s the best marketing tool you’ve had?
Have you used any innovative ideas, or do you do anything out of the ordinary to benefit your business?
Where do you want to be in 3, 5 or 10 years time?
If you could start your business again, what would you do differently?
What resources are available to you now that you wish you had access to when your business was young?
What resources do you NOT have now that might make your life easier?
Are there any processes you’ve been through that you could explain for someone just starting out? For instance, if you managed to get your stock into a department store, please explain how that came about.
What‘s next? Where are you heading?
What are your top tips for anyone following in your footsteps?
Life’s challenges:
Have you overcome any life challenges? Have you made any life achievements that you’d like to share?
Everyone has them, but how do you get through your bad days?
Who do you talk to about your business when other mums you know do not have their own business (who do you ‘bounce’ off?)
What advice would you give another mum considering starting her own business?
