subject: Stay At Home Moms Are Becoming Work At Home Entrepreneurs [print this page] Before, a mother's job was only to stay home and take care of their children. As time moved on, women wanted a share of the action and started working outside of their homes.
With the amount of time mothers spent outside the home building a name for themselves, they often left their kids in the care of other people. This is where the irony begins. If there was a way for moms to care for their families as well as earn a living, every mother would embrace the opportunity. But for the most part, this just wasn't possible before, so mothers ended up choosing one or the other.
Then, the Internet was introduced and doors were opened to several work at home jobs. With this development, moms are more attracted to work from home as an online entrepreneur. This way, she is able to look after her family and earn money at the same time.
A study conducted by the Center for Women's Business Research recorded a 40% increase of women-owned business in the last few years. Clearly, this is a trend that is on the rise as more and more women look beyond the cubicle for benefits it cannot provide.
Some of these benefits might include picking up their kids from school or attending a play their children are a part of....essentially spending more quality time with their children/family.
It's very easy to say that working from home is not work at all. But it is! A work at home mom is as hardworking as anyone working in a cubicle of a high-rise corporate building. The advantage that a work from home mom over a corporate worker though is that she can choose the hours she works and become very flexible at scheduling it.
How do these moms do it? Basically, it all starts with the Internet. Through the globalization brought by interconnecting various parts of the world online, mothers can now sell products and services online from their very own homes. For the most part working on the Internet doesn't require huge capital to get started.
If you want to become a stay at home mom entrepreneur, here are some ideas worth looking into:
Event Planning: If you are good at organizing things, then this venture is for you. Build a website which serves as an online directory for everything a party needs. Or you can offer this as a service for a premium price. Either way, you can easily plan parties around your schedule and be flexible in doing so.
Personal Assistant: The Internet can prove to be the perfect avenue for becoming a personal assistant. You can schedule appointments, call clients, pay bills, or book airplane tickets as part of your job description. Similar to this, you can also become a virtual assistant for internet marketers and do day to day tasks required of their online business such as link building and content creation.
Internet Marketing: If you have passion for selling and promoting things, then you can become an internet marketer. Becoming an affiliate for big name brands like Dell and Sony can be a good stay at home mom opportunity. All you have to do is to promote them and if someone buys through your promotional efforts, then you get a commission.
Indeed, with the various ways of making money online, stay at home moms can now become online entrepreneurs and earn the same amount a corporate worker earns without ever compromising their family's welfare.
If you are a mom and this is your dream...reach for it. This is the age of the Internet and opportunities to work at home have never been greater or more fulfilling than they are now.
