Thank You Nursery Online

Just a quick post ahead of next weeks baby Show for Trade to say a big thank you to Cathy of Nursery Online for the mention in this weeks newsletter.

Clear advice on social media

Social media is a power not to be underestimated. On Monday, Sian To from nursery pr specialists as Clear as PR and founder of CyberMummy Conferences, takes to the stage at the Baby Show for Trade to explain why social media is essential.

Sian, who blogs at www.mummy-tips.com, is one of the UK’s foremost mummy bloggers and has just returned from a field trip with Save the Children to Bangladesh and a reporting mission to the UN Summit in New York, where she blogged for ITN, The Guardian and Save the Children.

Unlocking the commercial potential of social media is at midday in the Knowledge Theatre on Monday 11th October at The Baby Show for Trade.

Stokke® Tripp Trapp® wins another award

It's award season in the nursery industry and I've just heard that Tripp Trapp® has been awarded the Gold award in this years Practical Parenting Awards.

Congratulations to everyone at Stokke.

Full category results

GOLD - Stokke® Tripp Trapp®

SILVER - Scandinavian Selection, The no tray highchair

BRONZE - Brother Max, Scoop

Call for pushchair using and potty training parents!

Most of you will know me as @MummyTips on Twitter or from my personal blog www.mummy-tips.com. This is me in work mode! My clients have lots of exciting projects coming up and I'm looking for bloggers to work with.

If you're interested in hearing more please pop me an email (sian at asclearas dot com) with the following details and I'll add you to my press list.

Name

Twitter id

Blog url

ages of your children

Thanks.

Mummy bloggers head to Bangladesh with Save the Children– the first trip of its kind.

I have been given an amazing opportunity to travel to Bangladesh with Save the Children. Your support is vital to our campaign. Please do stop by my personal blog to follow the events as we attempt to bring our trip back to you on a daily basis.

Friday 13 August 2010

At the beginning of September, Save the Children is taking three of the UK’s best known mummy bloggers to Bangladesh to meet other mums. They will hear women talk of losing their children to illnesses like malaria and pneumonia and find out what measures the country has taken to stop these needless deaths.

The bloggers trip will kick off a campaign to put pressure on the world leaders gathered at the UN Summit in New York to deliver their promises for mums and children around the world. 

As social media swiftly becomes the new face of campaigning for change, the bloggers are hoping to find out and convey through their networks how it can be that almost 9 million children are dying every year before their fifth birthday. Passionate about their work and ready to flex their multimedia skills to campaign for change, the three bloggers will be tweeting, creating video and photo galleries and writing about their experiences live and direct from Bangladesh.

Liz Scarff, Digital media manager at Save the Children who designed this trip said “Real change happens when people come together. There’s been a ripple created by the incredible army of mummy bloggers creating content on the net. This #blogladesh trip is Save the Children taking note and recognising that we are passionate about saving children’s lives, and mummy bloggers can link with that emotionally just by being who they are.”

Scarff continued “We’ve asked Eva, Sian and Josie to come and find out for themselves that motherhood is universal. One mother’s fears and worries for her child can be heard the world over, whether they’re from Bangladesh or Bangor in Wales. The challenge is for these bloggers to tell the story in their own words - real people giving their voices to poor mothers in Bangladesh who don’t get a chance to get their opinions heard.”

Unable to keep the lid on their upcoming trip, the three bloggers have already let rip on twitter and their blogs, reaching 40,000 about #blogladesh in the first morning. And they’re not even on the plane yet!

The challenge set to the bloggers by Save the Children is to keep Nick Clegg in check as he takes the global stage for the first time at a UN Summit in New York during Cameron’s paternity leave. There, World leaders will be looking at child health targets which are all way off track. Watch @mummytips, @porridgebrain and @nixdminx as they do their best to make sure he understands how much we care and that it’s vital he holds world leaders to account.

How can you help?

Follow:

sleepisfortheweak.org.uk - http://www.mummy-tips.com/  -http://www.nixdminx.com/

We need your voice to make as much noise about this as possible. Follow our bloggers on their journey, read their reports, watch their videos and help us to re-tweet their story. Comment on their blogs.  Or write your own blog on #blogladesh to join the campaign and put a badge on your blogs that you can grab from this website.

And if you want to do more, become a campaigner for Save the Children and sign our petition. We’re aiming to collect 100,000 signatures. Ambitious? Yes – but with your help we know we can do it. Go to www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/mummy-bloggers-head-to-bangladesh.htm  to find out more.

ENDS

4 clients products in top 50 baby products

Stokke® Tripp Trapp® made the cover and three other as Clear as clients products made The Top 50 Baby Products in last weekend's Independent magazine.

Featured products; Stokke® Tripp Trapp®, Mebby Cocoon bath, babaing! loBO chair, Stokke® hooded towel.

Selling your Pushchair on Ebay could be a rip off!

Selling your pushchair through Ebay? Does anyone take note of the exorbitant fees until they get paid?

Until now ebay has been the trading destination of choice as parents buy and sell, searching for their ultimate wheeled nirvana. But did you know that a sale of £200 on Ebay, taking payment by Pay Pal, will cost you at least £28.12 in fees?

There are other options. Car boot sales are very popular, with pitches generally costing from £5.00, but you have to get rid of the kids, get up at 5am and sell for way under market value. There's always the local paper, however you jostle for space amongst builders, plumbers and the hundreds of ever popular chat lines. Last resort could be the card on the board in the supermarket, but does anyone actually read these?

There is another option: PushchairTrader.co.uk is a brand new site dedicated to all things pushchair. You can sell your pushchairs for free and search through hundreds of listings of new and used pushchairs before making your next purchase.

Pushchair Trader is packed with news, reviews, features and road tests from brands and retailers right across the UK ensuring that your pushchair knowledge is second to none. All that and regular competitions to win the latest new models to hit the streets.  PushchairTrader.co.uk is the essential one stop shop to fuel your pushchair addiction.

www.pushchairtrader.co.uk

Notes on fees for Editors.

Ebay

For more information about pricing: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html

Fee examples for this case.

Placement listing Fee = £0.12

Reserve Fee for a £50.00 reserve = £1.00

Fee if pushchair sells for £200.00 =  £20.00

Pay Pal

For more information about pricing: https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiving-fees-outside&countries=

Fee example in this case.

Fee for £0 - £1500 = 3.4% plus 0.20 pence. Sold for £200 fee = £7.00

Feed your pushchair habit with PushchairTrader.co.uk

Pre children it’s handbags and shoes that fuel our shopping addictions – post children it’s pushchairs.

Until now ebay has been the trading destination of choice as parents buy and sell searching for their ultimate wheeled nirvana. But did you know that an ebay sale of £200 costs you around £30 in fees?

PushchairTrader.co.uk is a brand new site dedicated to all things pushchair. You can sell your pushchairs for free and search through hundreds of listings of new and used pushchairs before making your next purchase. Their online magazine is packed with news, reviews, features and road tests from brands and retailers right across the UK ensuring that your pushchair knowledge is second to none. All that and regular competitions to win the latest new models to hit the streets make PushchairTrader.co.uk the essential one stop shop to fuel your pushchair addiction.

www.pushchairtrader.co.uk