Money Making ideas for Stay at Home Moms
Here are just a few money making ideas for stay at home moms.
Just because you’ve left the workforce to be a stay at home mom doesn’t necessarily mean you can turn off that desire to bring in more income. Your time and focus is now on your new baby but even with the constraints of taking care of the little one, there are still plenty of opportunities to make a few dollars at home. Try any or all of these to see which one fits your personality and lifestyle the best.
Selling on eBay is a great way to earn a few extra dollars. It will take a short learning curve to get the hang of posting auctions, finding and prepping items for sale and concluding the first couple transactions. Once you get the hang of it, you can scale up to posting a few auctions each and every day. eBay is also a good place to unload any clothing or toys that your child has recently outgrown.
Writing for online article directories is a great way to pull in extra cash. If you like to write and can create articles, you can submit them to Associated Content and get paid anywhere from $3 to $20 or more per article. Be prepared for the payments to generally be on the low end of the scale. AC is free to join and they even pay a little extra if your portfolio of articles generates a lot of viewers. Some authors have thousands of articles and receive a check from AC each month.
The wide open field of internet marketing is quietly making some people full time salaries. In a nutshell, you create an internet presence, like a website or a blog, and you either promote a product as an affiliate or you sell advertising on your site to individuals or networks (like Google’s AdWords – which is free to join, by the way). The trick is not only putting the site together in the first place but in getting people to visit your site.
Google’s AdSense program is the other side of the AdWords coin. You can earn a full time living by placing advertisements for products that you promote. Be sure to start small, though. You can get burned by a run-away ad campaign if you don’t have the proper controls in place. If you’re good with numbers and spreadsheets, though, this should be right up your alley.
If you have the skills to go freelance in your chosen field, set up a profile at elance.com or guru.com and bid on jobs offered there. Writing, copywriting, graphic design and web design are skills that will be in need no matter what the ‘economic climate’ is.
Money making ideas are not limited to what you can do online. You could provide daycare or babysitting services for others in your area. There are dozens of non-internet based home-based businesses like catering, interior decorating, direct sales and parties. Accounting and tax prep, insurance and advertising sales are some of the more common ‘old school’ work at home jobs you can consider as well.
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Online Money Making Ideas
Here is quick list and explanation of the most lucrative online money making ideas on the net. Almost all of them require some sort of writing skill. Not a lot, but you do need to be able to put together a few sentences of English with correct grammar and spelling.
Writing articles: Articles are the back bone of the internet. They are used as stand alone articles in directories for traffic generation and link building as well as content for websites, ebooks and almost everything you see or hear on the internet.
Writing ebooks: E-books are electronically delivered books, usually in pdf format that can be sell for upwards of $999 if the information is extremely specific and valuable. Although most sell for between $7 and $97 with $47 being the center of that particular bell curve. You can also use ebooks as a free giveaway to build a list you can email to over and over again.
Creating websites: Again, this is more about writing the content (articles!) for the website than the actual coding. Although if you are good at coding, you should do fine (pitch your services at elance.com, guru.com and other job sites). Using readily available free templates, you can create the content for a five to ten page website in about one day. With a good domain name and topic that has a large enough audience, you can sell these to the highest bidder at sitepoint.com or hold onto them to make money for yourself.
If your site gets enough visitors a well place block of ads from Google’s AdWords program could generate up to a few thousand dollars per month if your topic gets enough traffic and the cost per click for the ads is high enough.
Affiliate marketing: Join a site like clickbank.com, pick a product and start promoting it. You can create your one mini site or use any of the free blogging sites to promote your product. Then, write and submit articles to promote your site.
I told you there was a lot of writing to be done. But here’s one that’s not based on writing.
Photography: Take all the photos you want and submit them to sites like iStockphoto.com or iClipart.com. You’ll get paid per download. It’s not a lot of money per download but if you build a portfolio of hundreds or thousands of popular photographs, your monthly intake could get quite large.
There are the usual ‘get paid to’ programs, like taking surveys and reading emails, but even if they paid really well, most people tire of them quite quickly. Feel free to give them a shot but after two or three surveys (ten to thirty minutes spent clicking on check boxes), you’ll see that your hourly rate will be dismal.
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