7 Awesome Online Jobs For Stay At Home Moms!

Are there any legitimate opportunities that are feasible?

Many mom’s out there are trying to find legitimate work from home opportunities!

Opportunities that mean they can have a great work/childcare balance and avoid large childcare bills!

But many work at home jobs still require you to work certain hours…

And the best online jobs for Moms, are really ones where they can dictate exactly when they work and fit it around their lives and their kids!

However, desperate Mom’s, looking for quick cash opportunities – will regularly fall for scams!

If it sounds way too good to be true…(e.g. you’ll be making thousands within a few weeks and so on…) then it probably is.  

Trust your instincts.

The bad news is, if you want to make money online, it will take a bit of time and it will take considerable work.

But the rewards for your time and effort, can be good.

That is, if you stick at it!

Ok, so lets look at some potential ways you can make money online….

Before you go… check out the training that helped me work from home and become self-employed!

1. Blogging

OK, so I’m sure you’ve heard this suggestion plenty of times before.

But loads of sites seem to jump on the bandwagon telling Moms to… Become a “Mommy blogger.”

NO… you don’t have to do that.  

Just because you’re a Mom with a blog, you don’t have to be a “Mommy blogger.”

Create a blog about something you’re passionate about, something you want to help people with, solve a problem that other people have.

You could even base it on a personal journey you’ve been through.

Put yourself in the shoes of a reader – what sort of blogs do you like to read?

Which ones do you go back to?

Most people really don’t want to read about some mundane every day stuff and look at lot of photos of your kids.

Largely,  People either want to be entertained, they want to learn something, or they’re looking to solve some kind of problem in their life!

If you can attend to either or all of these things, you can do well.

Ideally, you want to stand out from the rest and have a unique edge in one way or another.  Be honest and be bold.

Once you have some decent content on your blog and start generating traffic, you can monetize your blog in many ways.

One major way is via affiliate marketing, (where you recommend products and services on your blog and earn a commission when anyone makes a purchase).

Another popular option is to have Ads on your site… you can no doubt see Ads on my site right now!

However, you do need a good amount of traffic before you can make any reasonable money with advertising.

Which is why, many people will initially make their first sales from affiliate marketing.

Alternatively, rather than a straight blog, you may want to consider building a NICHE WEBSITE. 

A niche website is a site built around a narrow and defined area of interest… For example:

• Dog training,
• Attachment parenting,
• Breastfeeding,
• Crafting,
• Running gadgets,
• Gifts for dads…

There are even niches within niches, it depends how narrow you really want to go.

But by learning how to make certain tweaks to your website pages, (AKA SEO and Keyword research) in combination with writing helpful content, you can work on generating traffic to your website.

Much of the traffic to your niche website, can be achieved organically and for free using these techniques.

If you’re wondering how on earth you go about learning any of that, it’s actually not as difficult as it sounds, (although will require some work).

Building either a blog or niche site takes time, but with the right guidance, you can certainly start seeing some sales coming in within the three to six month mark, for a majority.

This will depend on things such as…

• how popular your niche is,
• What the competition is like,
• How much traffic you’re generating to your website and….
• How much action you take as far as building your site, (important!!!).

Action! Action! Action!…. this is key.

Get my in depth blogging guide – it’s FREE here!

2. Freelancing!

Anyone can now be a Freelancer!  You can work online for people all over the globe.

I’m currently looking at doing some Freelancing myself now and I’ve also had some experience with outsourcing work for my websites – which I’ve found to be a really positive experience.

While Freelance writing is what you may typically think of, there are far more opportunities than that – including graphic design, illustration, virtual assistant work, photography and much more.

You will often need some examples of your work – and these should exhibit your skills to the best of your ability.

Here are some sites you may want to look at, have a browse around and see what other people are offering to get a good idea of what you can do.

Upwork, People do often go for the lowest bid here, but if you want to get some experience, you can start off at a lower price and work your way up!  You’re not limited by writing here, there are all kinds of freelance work you could go to.

While there are a variety of platforms that you could use to get started – the best thing you can do if you want to start Freelancing, is to build your own platform and pitch to your own clients independently.

If you’re serious about Freelancing, I strongly recommend Gina’s course:  30 days to Freelance Success! 

She went from zero to $4,000 in just six months!!!

For a freebie, you can also pick up her 200+ freelance niche ideas here.

3. Selling on ETSY!

Etsy has really taken off in recent years.

 If you have a passion for making things and love arts and crafts, you could certainly think about creating something to sell.

Take a look around Etsy and see what is on offer… Do you think you could compete or do better?

Some resources that might help you make up your mind….

• 10 Easy things you can make and sell on Etsy

• Setting Up an Etsy Shop.

• Top 10 tips for starting an Etsy business.

• 42 craft projects that are easy to make and sell, (from BigDIYideas).  

4. Selling On FIVERR

Only your imagination limits you when it comes to fiverr.com  

From general tasks such as editing, writing work, illustration, graphic design and virtual assistant work…

…to the truly bizarre.

So, if you’d like to do a belly dance whilst juggling bananas, there could be a market for that.

The thing is, it’s so simple to get started with Fiverr, that you may as well give it a go.

You’d make the most money with minimal effort by creating something people can download again and again…  then all you need to do is click send.

You could also have more than one gig, to expand your potential reach and earning potential.

Fiverr is no longer just a $5 gig either, you have the chance to add on plenty of added extras to make more money.

You can create gigs worth thousands of dollars now!

5. Write Children’s Books/Become A Self-Published Author!

I wanted to specifically mention writing children’s books in particular, because I think – as mothers- we do get to read so many children’s books and I’m sure many would like to write their own!

Well, Amazon has made it much easier to create children’s picture books.  

They’ve now created the “Kindle Kid’s Book Creator.”  This has made creating your own kids book SO much simpler.

This is a really vastly expanding market and there are many self-published authors doing incredibly well.

Illustration wise, there are ways you can outsource quality illustrations at low cost.

I actually found a very talented illustrator on Upwork.  

I recommend you get the best illustrations that you can afford!

There are lots of self-published books out there that have TERRIBLE illustrations!!!

Therefore, if your book has brilliant ones, it will stand out!

Recommendations:

• This book has some great reviews online – “How to self-publish a Children’s book.”

• I first learnt how to create ebooks from scratch via doing this kindle Publishing Course.

6. Create a course on UDEMY!

I love Udemy, you can find some pretty good courses that are good value and in addition to this – you can create your own.

Creating an online course can be extremely profitable and with Udemy, they’re also really simple to create.

Do you have any area of expertise?  You can teach absolutely anything on the Udemy platform and you can use their free course design tools to create your own course.

You can then promote your course online worldwide!

There is a large earning potential here, even more so if you already have a platform from which to promote your course or courses, (whether it be a blog, website, or a large social media following).  Check out UDEMY here!

7. Create a Dropshipping Empire!!

Dropshipping is an interesting business model, where you can sell products without ever having to handle them, or even ship them to your customers!

• You promote a product,
• Customer makes a purchase,
• You make the order with your dropshipping company,
• The dropshipping company prepares and ships your order and sends it to your customer.

Because you can purchase your items as the orders come in, you don’t have to worry about spending thousands on inventory.

You can even start up really cheaply, by learning how to generate free traffic to your products from the search engines and social media.

However, it is faster if you learn how to drive paid traffic, such as by using Facebook Ads.

The video below does a great job of explaining how you can get started with a dropshipping business.