Work at Home Jobs for Moms
You just gave birth. You and your husband figure that it will be no more than two years before finances will force you back to work. So you start looking for work at home jobs for moms like yourself that do not want to go back to work and miss any part of your child growing up. You want to be there for your child and not some babysitter or daycare employee. To accomplish this you need a plan of action.
You start looking for jobs that are within your abilities, perhaps something having to do with typing or reading or creative or maybe something that combines all three. But you are not sure where to start looking. Well on this page I will give you some suggestions that can pertain to one, two, or all three of these abilities plus more. The one thing you will need for all of these is your own website and an internet connection, all of which are very easy and low cost to get nowadays. If you can devote a couple of hours every day, you could have a very nice business within 2 years-time.
A website will give you opportunities
Without a website you are very limited in what you can do from home. Sure there are many jobs that offer telecommuting but you are still required to go into the office every once in a while. Do you really want that? How would you feel if the day you went into the office your child took its first step? If that was me I would be quite upset, wouldn’t you?
You don’t want a job like that where you are still not in total control of when and where you work. You want to join the many stay at home moms and dads that make their money online with their own internet jobs. Once you have your own website, which also contains a blog, the opportunities that are available to you increase.
Here are some easy work at home jobs
For example, let us say you have a kick butt recipe for a certain kind of food or drink. You could write an e-book version of a cookbook and have it on your website so that people would pay you to download it. Maybe you are into healthy fresh fruit and vegetable juices or smoothies. You could offer the same thing and then offer a free update every month with a new recipe for those who join your mailing list. Building a list of customers gives you the ability to promote future items for sale to them.
Are you a crafty person, someone who enjoys a DIY (Do It Yourself) kind of design? You could always repurpose items and sell them on your website for a nice profit. If you go up on the Social Media Network, Pinterest, you will see tons of DIY boards loaded with pictures of some of the things that people make. You can then use Pinterest to help you market what you are selling on your website.
What is your passion? Are you into clothing, makeup, shoes, baby related items, parenting skills, home schooling, games for kids,…? You can take any of these and turn them into a Niche Marketing website where you can set up an affiliate account with thousands of companies that offer relevant items. These types of niche websites are known as affiliate marketing and many people affiliate with Amazon because they are the world’s largest affiliate marketer with close to a million different products.
Your website can also bring you opportunities
There is so many more work at home jobs for moms that are available once you have your own website that you can create and design by yourself. Plus in today’s world you do not even need to know any kind of programming to even design and build your website. Everything is now automated, just click a mouse button and within a minute you will have a website ready for you to fill it with content.
Another nice thing about having your own website and blog is that it also acts as an online resume or business card. If people go up on Google and do a search for something you are offering, these people may seek you out and sign you to a contract for a particular type of work. Maybe they like the way you created your website and would like you to create one for them or maybe write the content for theirs. Perhaps even be a paid guest blogger or ghostwriter.
Where to start your online business
Having your own website truly does open a lot of doors to you. The work at home ideas I have given you on this page are just a small sampling. For a list and details of 10 other jobs available right now, check out my blog post Real Work from Home Jobs. I even tell you of the few that I do.
So if you want to spend your time at home with your kids and you can work for a couple of hours a day, you can start your own online business in whatever you choose and turn it into an even more rewarding job than you have ever had working for someone else. To learn how to get started, I highly recommend where I began my work from anywhere career. The #1 Rated Online Training Community of Business Entrepreneurs known as Wealthy Affiliate. For more detailed information on this training community read The Wealthy Affiliate Review and see how you can join absolutely free!
If you have any questions you can check out my FAQ page or any of the other valuable information on my free website, which I created from the same training at Wealthy Affiliate. Please leave a comment below if you have any specific question that you would like answered and I will be more than happy to help you out.
I have looked at the wealthy affiliate pattern and i am still making up my mind if i want to be a part of it. I am still doing some research and gathering evidence to this. I have three websites, (build websites) i can monetise and my own hosting company. I am just looking into how i can use this pattern to generate money via traffic.
Nice article though and thanks for the elightenment
Thank you Banks. I am happy you liked my article.
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I am not yet a mom but I already have that feeling, that gut urge to work at home. Why?
Well, I’m not lazy, I love going out, doing everything that people do. I just wanna be my own boss and ,MORE IMPORTANTLY, I wanna do what I like. I love a lot of things, but I have never had a clue how many possibilities in those things are.
Robert, your post is going to cheer-up many moms out there and hopefully they will listen to your advice and be persistent; everyone can be and should be happy with their lives and with who they’ve become ! I know I am.
Well done.
Thank you Maya. Though the title of this page is Work at Home Jobs for Moms, the message can and does apply to anyone who wants to work from home for themselves and doing what they want to do online. The internet, though only publicly 22 years old, has made it possible to work from home and the training and resources at Wealthy Affiliate have made it possible for more and more average people to start their own online businesses at home. I hope that my message on this page as well as throughout my website inspires other people to embrace and enjoy the opportunity to work from home in their own business and can do so while staying at home with the kids and loved ones.
Robert, a brilliant article and very inspiring. Websites offer so much potential for both our own personal and professional development. It offers a great opportunity for mothers to still work and be a parent. Great article.
Rebecca
Thank you Rebecca. Having a website that you can easily create yourself gives you the opportunity to be able to work from home and be around for your kids at the same time. Now stay at home moms and dads can build an at home business that can supplement the household income. Once you have a website you have a foundation to build any online business that you would like to have. Basically, you cannot have a successful online business without your own website which is your storefront to the entire world.
There are so many sound reasons why creating a web-based business is perfect for a work-at-home Mom. Your ideas are clearly expressed and should help many who would otherwise miss out.
Life just gets better!
Thank you John. Life definitely gets better once you have a website of your own that you can create and mold into whatever you want. Once a stay at home mom (or dad) has that ability there are many things they can do with their website to make money. Plus with the website builder that is available from Wealthy Affiliate for free, there is no excuse anyone can give that would make them not able to have their own website because the website builder does exactly that…builds/programs their website for them.
Robert, that was really well researched. I do agree that Pinterest is a great platform for increasing your website traffic. You will see tons of DIY boards loaded with pictures of some of the things that people make.
But if you’re not particularly creative, and you don’t think you can write anything that people would be interested in, what possible way is there for you to make an interesting-enough website?
I’m just challenging you for your next fantastic post(if you hadn’t realized).
Thanks Sandi. I have plans on creating content to address that in the future but there are other things that need to be taught first since writing content isn’t really hard to do. If anyone can write an email, they have enough creativity to write website content. Plus no one becomes a good content writer without lots of practice because no one starts out good.
Robert,
Your post is right on the money(literally!) I am a member of WA and am learning to build my business, and have already started making money. Your site is full of information that can help others get started.
Lori
Thank you Lori! The training here at Wealthy Affiliate is awesome and if you are willing to really work hard at becoming successful, you will. I too am making money from my 3 websites. The training at WA is for people who want to put in a solid effort and work to build their business. This is definitely not a get-rich-quick kind of program. Actually there is no such thing when building your own online business.
Nice post Robert. I love DIY anything! I also like that you share ideas that you do. I don’t know about anyone else, but I am new to WA and enjoy it a lot. It’s nice to see what works for you because we that want to be like you veterans have models to use and it awesome to know what works for you could work for us too!
You are welcome Samone. Another thing to remember is that there are many work at home jobs that I list that I haven’t tried, so those could very well work for you too. In addition to what I suggest and what I do, the other types of jobs that I list I know about pretty well to say that they are legitimate opportunities for those with certain skills. The nice thing about the training at Wealthy Affiliate is that you can learn a great deal about ALL forms of internet marketing so you can try out many different types of at home jobs and pick the one or ones that are right for you.
Very informative post. Clear with good titles and images!
Thank you Jordan for your comment. I am happy you enjoyed reading my webpage.
It is difficult to find legitimate work from home opportunities. Many take an investment and then give you nothing of value for that investment. Working with Wealthy affiliate has been a real joy and they do give you great value and offer fantastic training. I have been with them since April of this year and now have a website up and running. Best opportunity I have found yet. Very glad that I have joined. Robin.
I agree Robin, it is difficult to find legitimate work from home job opportunities. I know before finding Wealthy Affiliate I tried a couple of other so-called at home business opportunities that were nothing more than a selling kit with no resources and support. It was like buy this, read this, watch this (some didn’t even offer anything to watch), listen to this, and then you are on your own. Though I already had experience working from home there was more I needed to know to jump start my own business but I couldn’t find anything. Then I found Wealthy Affiliate and now I have 3 successful websites of my own and even my eBay business has picked up now that I use some of the SEO techniques I have learned from WA.
Great site! I also like the layout. I would say that from looking at the title, if I were a mom looking for work from home jobs I would expect to find jobs or links to company’s where I could find jobs when I come to this page. Making this post to be about starting a website and making money could be misleading to someone who is looking for a job. Just a thought. Keep at it!
The only way to be successful and profitable to anyone working from home in their own online business is to have their own website. As someone who has worked at home for many years I didn’t really start making good money until I had my own website. Fortunately for me, because of prior experience selling successfully on eBay, the money I make from my own websites have come pretty quickly. This is why Wealthy Affiliate, as I do, advocate having the ability to create your own website so you can have whatever online job you wish.
As I state above in my webpage I would give suggestions as to what types of at home jobs are available, in which I give a few easy examples. I then later on provide a link to a post that list 10 real work from home jobs, 4 of them which I currently do myself. The point of this webpage is to inspire stay at home moms to create a business of their own and once you have a website the doors of opportunity are wide open. Just knowing how to build a website allows you to have a job building websites for other people. It also allows you to write content or do keyword research or SEO for other people. You can now do direct selling, eBooks, niche marketing, graphic and image registry downloads, and many other opportunities that are not available to anyone who has never created a website. – Thank you for your comment Terran.