Once a mother…always a mother. Being a mommy is a 24/7 job, exhausting and thankless, especially if your kids are toddlers. The emotional drain from all the household chores plus the physical demands of constantly taking care of kids is sometimes taxing. On top of that, if you’ve quit your job to raise a kid, it only builds up to more and more frustration. Here’s some good news. So what if you can’t go out to earn money? You can stay at home, and at a convenient time, work and earn as a mompreneur.
All you need is a smart device with an Internet connection and a will to work. Listed below are some of the best ways moms can start earning money.
Start a Vlog
A vlog is a video-blog. It’s a web TV. It’s simple, easy and right at your fingertips. Today, this is one of the easiest and most popular ways to start earning immediately. Make a video of the things you are passionate about. It can be anything like cooking your favourite recipes, making handicrafts, painting, knitting techniques, ways of decorating or re-modelling your home, or making candles. The list is endless. You can pick any topic of interest, create a video and upload it on YouTube. Simple and easy!
Next Step Is to Start Earning
Advertising – You can play ads in between your videos and earn commissions from them.
Become an Amazon Affiliate – This process is simple. You can share information about products that interest you and tell the viewers about easy options to buy those products. For starters, once you log-in to your Amazon account, you will see a small link at the bottom for Amazon Affiliate. After signing-up, you’ll receive a special link and a code. Just copy and paste this link on your video. For every click on the link and for every purchase of that product, you can earn 8% of the item’s cost on Amazon. However, it depends on the category of the item.
Blogging – If writing is your hobby, you can start your blog and add Amazon Affiliate links on the pages of Blogger.com.
- You can also use the Google AdSense service to place ads on your blog. In this case, the amount paid depends on the type of ad and the number of views it gets.
- If you don’t want to write your own blog, you can write for other people’s blogs on the condition that you get to use your Amazon Affiliate link.
- You can also paste the Amazon Affiliate link on other social media pages like Facebook; you can tweet about it or post it on LinkedIn.
- You can also write an e-book and add your Amazon Affiliate links in it.
Freelance Editorial Work – With kids around you, sometimes it’s difficult to maintain a committed blog. In this case, you can also focus on freelance content writing work. There are many companies, media and corporate offices and non-profit websites that need freelance writers. Payment is variable, depending on per word, per article or per hour basis. For starters you can log-in to sites like freelancer.com.
Proofread – If you are grammar savvy and have an eagle’s eye for correction, you can pursue freelance proofreading work. You can edit and proofread blogs, books, online course material, documents, files, forms, etc.
Teach Online/Offline or Home-Schooling – If teaching interests you, you can sign up for an online course. The work is simple, easy and limited to a couple of hours. Kids nap times are the best times to cash in on this opportunity. Sites like Tutor.com can help you to get a head start. By sharing your knowledge and skills, this will give you tremendous professional satisfaction along with earning good money.
Be a Virtual Assistant – If you love doing office work, you are in luck. Now you can manage not one, but many offices from the comfort of your home. With flourishing online businesses, there is a great demand for VAs across the globe. Good communication skills, computer knowledge and a passion for office work is all that’s needed. The work includes checking emails and responding, managing data and online files, managing schedules, managing blogs and social media content, providing customer support and much more.
Market Research and Surveys – Do you have an opinion about everything you want to buy or see? Now you can cash in on your hobby. There are many companies that will pay you for your opinion. You can take a survey online or do market research. Sometimes it means making phone calls or sending SMS. But it is the quickest and easiest way to make money online. Rebecca from SurveyClarity suggests the idea of being consistent with surveys, so that you get more of them and can build a strong monthly income stream this way.
Apart from these jobs, there are other odd jobs that you can take on which will make you extra income from home.
Kids Care – While taking care of your own kids, you can call up your friends and offer to look after their kids too. This way your friends who work outside of the home will be confident that their kids are taken good care of, and you can earn some extra pocket money. It does not require any special skills and your kids can have some great company and bonding time with other kids. It’s a win-win.
There are various other options like selling items on websites like eBay or selling baking products from home. These are nine unique ways to spend time working at home at your convenience while taking care of your kids and earning that extra buck.
