Stay at home moms sometimes have a rough time keeping up with household expenses. Hopefully some of the things I have found will help you in your endeavors! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
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Below are just a sample of the avenues some creative individuals have
used to not only survive from their home workplace, but to thrive and
enjoy the benefits of their home.
- Online Surveys/Focus Groups: There is a lot of information related to how a business is run that can be obtained from practically anywhere. And some businesses
have come to realize that instead of sacrificing scarce (and expensive)
office space to such functions, many more people can be employed for
the same (or less) money working off-site. Those who gather data,
whether it is for surveys or focus groups are just one example.
- Online Tutoring: Just like a lot of businesses, the
tutoring world has been revolutionized by the online approach. If you
have a knack for teaching others how to do something, want to be a
teacher, or even are a teacher who is currently out of the workplace or
wants to make extra money, you can put your skills to work by offering
your know-how online. Combining your teaching skills with the love that
young people have for computers and practically anything online, there’s
a winning combination that is sure to benefit everyone.
- Freelance Writing: If you have a way with words,
chances are very good that you can make a good living as a freelance
writer. There are several ways of doing this very profitably. There is
what is called the lottery method, where you approach magazines,
newspapers and websites in an attempt to sell them your work. This is
called the lottery method because the writer never knows when he or she
will strike the big time with the perfect work in front of the perfect
publisher. The fun part is that you can make money along the way to your “fortune”.
- Data Entry: Data entry
is a tedious task that is often farmed out by a company to independent
contractors who work on projects from their homes. This is a mixed
blessing for everyone involved. Fortunately, for a home worker who is
conscientious and willing to work hard, data entry can be a blessing in
disguise. Data entry is time consuming work, but this is very suited to
someone working from home
who probably does not have the distractions often present in an office,
which would lend itself to lower quality work. Fortunately, just as is
the case of any work, when you prove yourself as a capable and
dependable worker, the world will become your oyster.
- Selling Photography: The photography business is
one that anyone interested in it can enter to several and numerous
degrees. From taking your own pictures and selling them to clients or to
the general public as in the case of nature photography, the business
can be very lucrative. The equipment often required can be very
expensive, but at the same time, you can “make do” in many circumstances
until you have the money to invest in more.Another approach for photography is the commercial aspect. Depending
on how much you want to leave your home, you can hire yourself out as a
photographer at weddings, and other such events. For those who want to
stay closer to home, perhaps you have an area that might be suitable as a
studio or a yard that might be an appropriate setting for backgrounds.
Either way, or both, you’re in business.
- Affiliate Marketing: How would you like a job that allows you to make money
while somebody else does the work? That’s affiliate marketing, and
there are many companies who do it. There are also many people who make
considerable amounts of money doing the work. Even better, once you have
gotten more people to work for you, your profits can be considerable,
with an ever-expanding network, making money for you every step of the
way. With time and patience, affiliate marketing can be a good business.
- Virtual Assistant: Did you ever have a task to run
and you simply didn’t have the time or the energy to do it? There are a
lot of business people who are in exactly the same situation and are
happy to relieve themselves of their errand onto someone else. Even non
business people need errands run from time to time. What stay-at-home
mom didn’t have an errand to run but had sleeping child that they
couldn’t leave? You could hire yourself out as a virtual assistant who
could perform these tasks for them. And if you can’t leave your home,
you could hire your own assistant to be your assistant.
- Customer Service: Remember the last time you had a
problem with a company and spoke to a customer service representative
who was able to effectively help you with the issue? Remember how good
you felt afterwards? You could create those feelings full time and
working from home as a customer service representative working for a
firm that farms out those responsibilities to workers offsite.
- Online Auction Seller: In recent years, Ebay, Etsy,
and other auction websites have created an entirely new concept in
selling merchandise. Gone are the days when if you had something to sell
you had to “go amongst them” to get the attention of buyers. Now, all
you need to do is take a picture of your product, write some sell copy
to accompany your picture and sell the product, then post both online.
You’re in business.
- Drop Shipping: If you’ve always wanted to have your own business but didn’t have the money to buy a lot of inventory, perhaps a business as a dropshipper
is for you. Drop shipping is a business that can be as small as you
want it to be, but reward you with big income potential. Basically, a dropshipper
is a business (it’s often no more than a website) that offers goods for
sale and that receives money for those goods. When it comes time to
ship the goods to the customer, however, the dropshipper.
- Mystery Shopper: Do you like to shop? Do you like
to give your opinion about the customer service of a store or other
organization? If you like being a spy, but the CIA never got your
application, maybe a business as a mystery shopper
is a good fit for you. Mystery shoppers are people who are employed by
many different types of organizations to provide feedback on all sorts
of things. You might, for example, be asked to report on employee
attitude, their promptness in serving you, making refunds and other
things. You might even be asked to check to see if the restroom is
clean. Even churches and other unlikely groups use mystery shoppers
(mystery worshippers?) to give feedback on how well they are serving
their publics and other aspects of their work.
- Proofreading Jobs: Proofreading is another of those tedious but important jobs that many businesses
are happy to farm out to home workers. Companies can produce hundreds
of important documents every day, and their importance necessitates
proper spelling and punctuation, for form if not legal reasons. Further,
proofreaders outside of the company offer the added benefit of an
objective, fresh set of eyes to ensure that standards are met.
Finally, a word of warning: There are many legitimate work from home
jobs available. Some can be very lucrative and offer considerable
freedom from the normal stresses of working in an office environment.
Unfortunately, there are also drawbacks. First, out of sight really is
out of mind in this case. When you are not a regular part of the company
“family,” you can often find yourself on the outside looking in and
rarely enjoying the trust that can be there for the asking when being an
employee. Any trust that is accorded to you is the result of trust that
you earn by hard work. This is difficult, but can be very rewarding. Another part of finding work at home jobs
are the scams that are a common threat. As stated above, there are many
good, legitimate works at home jobs, when a prospect requires a fee up
front, chances are good that it’s a scam. Taking part in these, no
matter how tempting the offer, will probably only part you from your
money and leave you empty handed in the end. The bright side to all of this is to remember that where there’s a
will there really is a way for anyone who wants to work from home. In
fact, horror stories should not deter anyone since there are far too
many opportunities for success available. It is also important to
remember that with the changing economic conditions, opportunities stand
a good chance to increase significantly in number in the coming years,
so those who get on the bandwagon sooner rather than later, will
probably benefit faster than anyone.
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