National press coverage for your small business

Small business in The Guardian

I had a very pleasant surprise yesterday – my latest article for The Guardian, on the distractions of working from home, appeared on the website home page as well as the small business page it was written for!

I surf newspaper websites every day looking for interesting articles and pictures to tweet to my followers, so when I discovered The Guardian’s Home Business Hub, part of the Small Business Network, I joined up in order to receive regular emails with the latest content.

The editor, Alison Margiotta, is looking for home and small business owners to share their expertise and provides her email address on the emails, so I got in touch. I wrote my first piece on the advantages of Jelly for small business.

But it’s not just about me! If you run an innovative home business, you have till the end of the week to enter the Small Business Showcase. All you have to do is write up to 250 words about what makes makes your home business particularly innovative or unusual, and you’ll have the chance of getting national coverage for your business.

You may already know I welcome photos of your home workspace for my Home Offices Galleries, and yesterday I posted the second in our new series Through the Home Office Keyhole. Take a look at the photo – who do you think works in a place like that?

The Small Business Network is looking for photos of wacky workplaces, so if
you don’t feel you qualify as an innovative business, you’re not out of the running – ‘Do you email in the bath or close deals defrosting the fridge? We want to know what crazy places you use for working at home. Send us your photos and inspire others to walk on the wild side’.

Let me know if you have an article published, so I can spread the word among the Work from Home Wisdom community. Oh, and keep sending us those photos, wacky or not!