Work From Home Mums Blog – Resources, Return To Work Advice, Online Business Ideas

When you find your role in the family as a stay at home mother with no personal income, sometimes accomplishing the simplest tasks such as grocery shopping or buying personal items a more complicated task because the amount you spend is being specified by the other person who makes the money in the family. Sometimes buying the higher-end product is not something the family provider does not like to always see. However, there is a way to make your own bit of pocket change that can help improve your lifestyle a little. Here we will go over just a few of the ways that you can make money online.

eBay is a website that can help you put some cash in your purse rather quickly if you know how to work with it properly. And guess what else? You don’t have to go digging around your basement anymore for antiques that might be worth something to a collector. You can sell pretty much anything, even the clothes your children don’t fit into anymore (provided they are in reasonable condition, of course). In fact, used clothing is something that gets a little more popular on eBay every year. (more…)

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Working for a company that pays you minimum wage may not make you feel like you are worth much. Sometimes, these jobs barely cover the costs of hiring a babysitter to watch your children while you are working. Even if you are lucky enough to get the exact hours of when your children are at school, part-time jobs will distract you from completing the work a women has to do in order to keep up with housecleaning, laundry, and other such chores it takes to effectively manage a family. This can lead to spending more hours of their day working than someone with a full time job works, yet they barely make any money at all.

There is a great alternative though that doesn’t involve forcing yourself to work 16 hours a day and lets you stay home with your family. Every day it is becoming more and more easy to turn a profit online. This can be a great way for a mother to both manage their household and their finances. However in the initial stages of starting an online business, a lot of thought has to be put into which path you need to take. (more…)

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Becoming a work at home mother no longer needs to involve becoming an Sales Representative and going door to door trying to sell products and getting turned down client after client. Utilize the possibilities the internet is introducing to the world, work at home mums are now about to put their businesses on mostly autopilot.

A small hobby that you enjoy doing can now be something you can make some money with, if you choose to take the steps to setting up a business around them. Not all women may be into hosting Tupperware parties, especially in the twenty-first century where most people just purchase their kitchen supplies from their local department store. But there is another place people like to buy from as well, and that is the internet.

Below I have provided you with a couple different methods full time mothers are able to implement to turn profits using the internet. I encourage you to read through both of them in order to find out which method best suit you.

Creating your own ezine is a great way to monetize anything you can write about. Creating a good ezine is as easy as creating a series of articles readers would be interested in. Advertisers today are willing to pay for spots to place their ads around your website. Usually, you will be paid each time a reader clicks on an advertisement. All you have to do is create yourself a fan base and post some new, fresh articles to your site every day or every few days. For help with writing, this site has a great deal on article writing templates to prompt you with ideas..

For some people, writing an eBook is a more profitable alternative to constantly updating an ezine. An eBook is just like a regular book. It has a cover page, a table of contents, and provides a reader with something useful or just plain entertaining to read. Best of all, you can become an author without having to deal with a publishing company. You can even outsource the process of popularizing your book by placing it in Affiliate Networks such as Clickbank.

Create yourself a little sales page telling why the user should buy the book is all it takes. When an Affiliate working for the network comes across your eBook, they may find that the book might be something that they could easily sell. Coming up with a unique concept for a book will ensure that it will receive a lot of attention from Affiliates, and in turn generate a lot of sales. Of course, the Affiliate will take a percentage of the revenue generated from each sale, but you will still be able to make a profit because an eBook is a digital product that doesn’t cost money to create.

Most women in the internet workplace are making money selling information about topics they know about. It isn’t that hard, and doesn’t require spending the amount of time doing that you would otherwise have to dedicate to working a part-time job. Often times a job is not a realistic opportunity for a mother because of what the bill would be for a baby-sitter to stay at home with the children. Working online will enable you to both have the time to take care of your children and contribute some extra funds towards your household.

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There’s a new brand of ‘mum’ out there and she is a tiger to deal with. Mums have long been the target of advertisers. Smart companies know that when it comes to shopping and buying decisions in households, ‘Mum’ is leading the way.

For decades, companies have focused on getting mothers to look at their products. For example, Jif® peanut butter has long used the slogan ‘Choosy Moms Choose Jif.’ Some companies, like Tylenol® focus on reassuring parents that their brand is the #1 brand recommended by pediatricians. We can all think of many ways that companies target mums and work to build trust if we stop and focus on it.

However, there is a change in the wind when it comes to purchasing products, buying services, and exploring other possibilities. These days the Internet has opened up a world of options for mums. One of the biggest and most promising choices available to a mum in this day and time is the ability for her to work from home and bring in extra income. With today’s current economic conditions, it is becoming even more critical that she bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan too.

With all that being said, owners and companies of legitimate businesses and opportunities now have to ‘face the tigress’ complete with all her skepticism. When a person has been burned, lied to or even scammed, it is very hard to gain that person’s trust even though you are presenting her with a legitimate and credible way to earn income.

It’s a great time for mums to explore working  for themselves. Seek a company with credentials you can trust. It is true that there are legitimate, ethical and reliable ways to work from home. It is true that there are hundreds of scams out there. Look for a company that provides you with the following information:

· -Company’s information on their products and services
· -Company’s free training and ongoing mentoring
· -Company Credentials (should be easily verified)
· -Company Growth Chart, Length of time in Business
· -Annual Income Statistics
· -Company ‘re-order’ or ‘return shopper’ potential.

There are some basic questions that everyone should ask when looking into a reliable way to work for yourself. The answers are pretty basic too and should be a standard for all companies. You’ll know how do-able the business will be for you with the right questions and the right answers.

Readers Question: If I return to work, and my boss is amenable to the idea, how does one juggle working from home with a baby? My baby seems to take up my whole day anyway, so when do I find time to “work” in there as well as look after him? Does it really work when my baby is at an age where he can’t entertain himself?

Answer: Working from home can work when you have children of any age. What it really comes down to is the different abilities of the individual to juggle all the balls in their own lives. We all have different factors in our lives, and working from home is not for everyone. It is hard work and requires some strategies to make it work.

Firstly it is important to discuss your employer’s expectations. Some employers require set hours while others are happy for the work to be completed at a time that suits you so long as it meets a deadline. Discussing your plans with your partner is also important as it will effect them by way of extra housework help, or caring for the children if you work in the evenings etc.

Other considerations are; whether someone can offer childcare, how many hours do you have available to work each week (i.e.: when baby is sleeping, evenings), type of work you would be doing (phone work requires quiet, while being a forum moderator doesn’t have the same necessity).

Ultimately, stay true to yourself and don’t over commit yourself. Develop some strategies to help you in an emergency for example; personally when I am on an important phone call and B2 decides he is going to cry, I open the door to B1′s bedroom and let him play in big brother room for the 5 or 10 minutes I need. It really comes down to what works for you. I hope you gain some clarity about your plans for the future.

Leigh

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