So  now you get to see how we are following our own advice - and letting you know what's instore for you with Kids Bee Happy for Black Friday 2019

It's black friday - big discounts, huge deals, bargains galore - but what about your business?  Shouldn't you be joining it too?  Sandra talks to us about why Black Friday is more gimmick than substance, and gives you some ideas of how to approach it.

Pre-Christmas deliveries, dispatches and help between Christmas and New Year, and New Year news and sales.

Well I've been plugging on about it for months, so it would be sad to let it pass by for another year without giving it a hearty goodbye.

And one final extra bonus tip - last year a consultant lost hundreds of pounds because they paid a very significant sum to be at a "Winter Wonderland Extravaganza" event.  As you know at KBH we try to ensure that you don't pay large pitch fees except where it is a good idea, so if you are thinking of spending out a big sum on a big Christmas event, then please please please run it past your team leader or head office, and we will do a bit of digging on your behalf to make sure that you're not unncessarily risking money.

Every year the Guiding Star nominations are one of the highlights of the conference season.  Anyone involved in Kids Bee Happy is very aware of all teamwork, support and generous sharing of knowledge within the company, and importantly cross team.  But when you see it written down, time and time again, it makes a huge impression. 

A time that the kids look forward to, and one that working parents kind of dread, as the inevitable juggling act starts for the next few weeks. And as a mum of two teenagers, Sandra has survived years of balancing spending time with the children, our kidsbeehappy business, and the inevitable mixture of whatever the Scottish weather can throw at us, so here are my top tips to help you get happily through the next few weeks:

So Colouring with pens versus colouring with Sand Art?  Which is easiest?  What do the customers prefer?  Kids Bee Happy recently ran 3 craft workshops for the Skiffie World Championships, and we used this opportunity to put the sand art and the colouring mobiles head to head, specifically to answer these questions.  And here are your important takeways:

As you know at Kids Bee Happy we completely road test all of the product and activities, and as a team here at Head Office, we tend to push things to breaking point, just so that we can tell you where that is.  So to test the Pebble Pets/Trolls, we decided to utilise a workshop that we were running at the Skiffie World Championships, here in our own friendly Stranraer, and this is what we learnt:

It's summer, you have a big event planned, and the weather looks like its going to be stonkingly good, and you're having a panic that you don't have enough pictures, enough equipment, enough tables - enough anything OMG Panic.  So here are 2 simple things that you can put in your car (in fact you even leave them in the car) which will solve all those panics.