Work at home moms make up a significant portion of home-based business owners and work at home freelance professionals.
While there are a lot of perks that come with working at home. The appeal for stay at home moms is often that they’ll be able to spend more time with their children. Keeping that in mind, here is a list of ten home-based business or freelance job ideas that will allow for a flexible schedule that can be worked around family time.
- Freelance Writing
Work at home moms can find numerous opportunities for freelance writers, both online and off.
Because writing can generally be done at any time, it would be ideal for work at home moms who might only have time to work during occasions where their children are in school or napping. Some good resources for moms interested in finding freelance writing clients are WritersMarket, Fiver, and Upwork.
- Blogging
Similar to other writing fields, blogging can be done at almost any time of day. Most blog networks that hire freelancers have posting requirements on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule, but the time of day that you post is completely adaptable to your own schedule.
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- Ebay
Starting an eBay business is a great option for work at home moms, because most products will sell on a 24-hour basis online without too much supervision. To make an eBay business even more ideal, drop shipping would remove the necessity of storing and managing inventory and making regular post office runs when you would rather spend time with your family.
You probably already have hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of stuff you could sell, just lying around your home. Thrift stores and flea markets are also great places to find products to resell online.
- Child Care
Work at home moms would be ideal for the child care field. If there’s a need in your community, some options would be setting up a home-based daycare center or even an after-school program for older kids. Depending on where you live, you might need special certifications or licenses (check with your town and state), but you would have the added perk of having other children around for your own to play with and socialize with.
- Graphic or Web Design
Most design work can be run as an online-only business, meaning you wouldn’t always have to run out to a client’s location for meetings. As long as you regularly answer your email throughout the day, you can concentrate your actual design work during quiet times when the kids are otherwise occupied, or even handle the design work during the evenings.
- Tutoring or Lessons
Having students come to your home for tutoring sessions with their schoolwork, or even music lessons, can be easily adapted to fit your family’s typical schedule, such as your child’s nap time, or on weekends when someone else might be around to look after your kids.
- Arts and Crafts
If you have any artistic ability, an arts or crafts-related business can be ideal for a work at home mom. You can design jewelry, paint, make candles, or just about any craft you can think of. There is definite potential as you can work on your craft during quiet times or in the evenings, and sell your crafts at shows on the weekends. Or, you can sell your products anytime with an online store that will work for you 24-7. Etsy is a great place for the arty biz-moms.
- eConsulting / Mentoring / Coaching
Similarly to how you can do design work almost entirely online, you can do the same for various forms of consulting if you have the proper training. For instance, you can consult on Web content, do marketing or SEO consulting for website owners, or adapt any kind of expertise into your very own e-consulting firm.
9 – Research
Individuals and companies in just about every field have a need for someone to conduct research for them. You can do anything from genealogy research to market research by conducting surveys right from the Web.
10 – Selling Information
Information is still a hot commodity, and these days almost anyone can set up a website. If you create a basic site, you can sell anything from ebooks and courses to podcasts to databases of industry contacts or job listings. The possibilities are endless.
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What types of home based business ideas have worked best for you? Let us know below.
