Lindsey Fish, founder of Little Fish Event Management, explains why the business should win the home business category of the Guardian Small Business Showcase competition.
I set up Little Fish Event Management instead of returning to work after my maternity leave ended.
Little Fish Event Management is a home-based business and was launched on a shoestring.
To start with, my daughter Molly went into childcare for eight hours per week – this was just enough time for me to be on the phone or networking. It did the trick and I secured my first client within the first two months of business, which happened to be the Skills Funding Agency.
Now just over a year on and I have teamed up with business partner Lucy Chaplin, who just happens to be 36 weeks pregnant, to launch our own portfolio of work and business events for ambitious mums, called the Mums Enterprise Roadshow. Technology has played a major part in how we work together as we do not live nearby. We make use of free applications like Skype, Google Drive, Mailchimp, and Insightly CRM, which allow us to put processes in place to scale up.
We both work from home, and I continue to juggle my working diary around keeping Molly’s childcare to a minimum. Lucy is planning as far ahead as possible by creating design templates so I can create new materials while she is away. Our business is innovative because one home business has created an event which will change the lives of many other ambitious mums.
All entries which meet the competition criteria are published and our judging panel select a shortlist of the top three for each category. Winners are announced at an awards ceremony in summer 2016.
