Are you a stay-at-home mom (or dad) hoping to bring in some extra income or kick-start an entrepreneurial venture while you take care for your family? The advantages of working at home are obvious to anyone, but for parents, they’re especially compelling. Being able to work at home or start a business makes it possible for you to be there for your kids.
Below you will find some great business opportunities for stay-at-home parents.
> Child Day Care
Starting a Home Childcare Business is an especially good idea for stay-at-home-parents. Not only can you care for your own children, but for other children as well and get paid for that. A home environment is often appealing to kids and to their parents. If you have the space and the equipment, you’ll just need to ensure you comply with state and local regulations and get licensed. If you market yourself as stay-at-home nanny, you probably don’t even need a license.
> Home-Based Bakery
Turn your love for baking or cooking it into your own business. Take for example Martha Stewart who started a catering business in her basement. With your culinary skills you can become someone’s personal chef, you can sell your goods to local stores or offer professional catering. You can deliver healthy homemade lunch for working people, you can create beautifully decorated cakes and cookies, bake artisan bread or serve artful pastries. You also have to be aware that food production at home is heavily regulated but it’s not impossible. If cooking is your passion this could be the best choice to earn extra income or start own business.
> Create Arts and Crafts
Why not consider making money out of your talents? Do you have skills to make jewelry, soaps, knitted pet clothes, doll dresses or any other arty or crafty items? You can make a business by selling handmade products that are in high demand. You can sell your staff at the local markets and shops, or globally via Etsy or similar sites. You can also start your own website (with or without our help).
> Selling products online
Besides selling your own products, you can start (re)selling any other products online. The trick here is to source demanded products at competitive prices and sell them for profits. The best markets to sell such products are e-Bay and Amazon, but you can also create your own online store (that’s not difficult as you may think). To sell online you don’t even need to stock the products yourself but use drop-shippers instead. They will deliver the goods directly to the customer after you make the sale.
> Blogging
If you are good at writing and have a passion for a specific topic or hobby this is the business for you. You don’t even need to have technical expertise to build a website nowadays. Your mission will be to write appealing articles in your topic and attract audience. In addition to that, you will have to look for ways to attract more visitors to your website through social media, search engine optimization and by getting involved in the wider blogosphere (networking with and/or commenting on the blogs in your niche). You will generate income by publishing ads, recommending (affiliate) products or selling your own products or services. If you decide to start own online store (previous idea) you would also want to complement it with a blog in order to attract more potential customers. Here is a list of 10 new blog niches you can start today.
> Tutoring and Coaching
Remote (or in house) tutoring is a great business opportunity for stay-at-home parents. If you are knowledgeable, skillful or experienced in any area and passionate about transferring your knowledge to others this might be a perfect business for you. Tutoring is not only teaching students math, science, English and so on. You can also teach general public many different skills, arts and crafts including but not limited to, playing a piano or a guitar, painting, singing, communicating, dating, body language, negotiating, speech, closing sales, personal finances, business consulting, styling, decorating and so on. You can also teach cooking, gardening, landscaping, woodworking or any other craft you know.
> Delivering online courses
This business model is highly complementary with Tutoring and Coaching, so you can practice them simultaneously. If you can turn your knowledge in to a digital course, you can turn your earnings on autopilot and easily scale your business. Your classes could be in form of text lessons, podcasts, and/or videos. You can easily set a system that will deliver these lessons automatically to your clients after they enroll and pay. When tutoring and coaching one-on-one, the time availability is your limiting resource. With online courses, only the sky is the limit. After you develop your classes and set the system, you will have to work to bring in and retain visitors to your website.
> Freelancing
Perhaps the easiest and fastest way to start earning is freelancing, especially if you have mastered specific skills. As a freelancer, you can earn as a web designer, content writer, excel expert, graphic designer, website manager, programmer, search engine optimizer, virtual assistant, internet marketer, social media specialist and many more freelance positions depending on your skill set and experience.
To start your freelancing carrier create an account at Upwork, Freelancer, or any other freelancing platform. You can find freelancing jobs even at Craigslist. Find out if freelancing is your dream job. Below we will elaborate some of the mentioned freelancing opportunities.
> Virtual Assistant
Many businesses (and individuals) need extra help with administrative, secretarial, technical or creative services but cannot afford or do not want to pay for a full-time employee. This is where the virtual assistant comes in. The Virtual Assistant, from his or her home office can answer calls and emails, do the scheduling, enter data, handle travel reservations, prepare payroll, manage a website and social media, copyright etc. As a virtual assistant, you can work for one or more clients and earn steady income. Start with your own connections or take advantage of the services like Zirtual, EaHelp, Time Etc., Task Rabbit, Freelancer or Upwork.
> Content Writing
The need for quality content is growing constantly. The saying “Content is King” is an old one, but Google continuously rises the importance of the engaging and quality content on the web pages in order to rank them in the search results. If you are able to write an appealing content, you could instantly enter the game and start earning right away. Content writing opportunities include, article writing, resumes, reviews, technical writing, copywriting, e-book writing and more. The topics you can write on are endless, starting from health, finances, business, marketing to topics like horse training, fishing, weddings, rising kids, relationships, gossip, fashion, art, travel and many, many more. As you grow your portfolio and deliver good results, you can increase you earnings too. You can find a website to work for as a content writer, you can bid on projects on freelancing platforms or you can build a website of your own and promote your writing business.
> Website Management
Many small business (online and offline) need a website. The owners usually don’t know how or don’t have the time to build the website by themselves. Since creating a website nowadays is easy as making a cheeseburger you can pop-in. You don’t have to be a geek or tech savvy to start such business. You can easily learn how to install and manage websites using WordPress, the most popular, convenient and free website builder. Additionally, you would manage the content creation process, optimize for search engines and manage the social media pages. If you try to create a web business for yourself, the first thing you will learn is how to build a website. So, while you still search for the big idea or wait for visitors to discover your great products or services you can earn from your newly learned set of skills to manage websites.
> Internet marketer
There are plenty of business opportunities within this industry since there are many businesses that strive to attract new visitors to their sites. You can offer content marketing services, search engine optimization, social media management and optimization, AdWords and Facebook advertising, retargeting, email marketing consultation, branding and more. You can easily learn the secrets of these services and offer them to newbies in online business.
> Graphic design
Duties of a graphic designer may include designing logos, posters, flyers, product catalogs, infographics, social media images, web templates, t-shirt designs, advertisements and more. You can work as a freelancer on freelancing platforms, promote your business locally or start your own website for this business. If you are graphic designer or wan’t to be one, you can also sell your work printed on products on sites like CafePress, Zazzle or FineArtAmerica.
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As you can notice, most of the above listed home business opportunities are web based. You can peruse them utilizing established platforms (without own website), build your own website for the purpose or use both alternatives. Anyway, here at Biizly.com you can learn the whole process of creating an online business (by doing) and will also acquire skills needed to start some of the above mention business opportunities.
