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We all want to provide something more for our family, but we may not want to compromise on being a stay at home mom. Luckily, the growth of working at home has paved the way for you to have it all. Work at home moms are moms who have found a way to keep their family a central part of their day-to-day lives, while also managing to bring in extra income with their own business. While certainly no easy feat, starting your own business could be the key to achieving your own personal and work dreams.
To help get you started, we’ve compiled our list of ten business ideas perfect for stay at home moms:
-Blogger
Simple to get started and incredibly self-fulfilling to work on, blogging is a go-to work at home idea for many moms. It allows you to focus on a topic that you enjoy most and work around your own schedule
-Bridal Consultant
If you love weddings and are a detail-oriented and organized person, you may want to consider becoming a home-based bridal consultant. With many women juggling their work life with their home life, managing a huge event like a wedding may seem nearly impossible. Working with a bridal consultant is great way to help alleviate extra stress during this time.
-Business Plan Writer
As more people start to realize that being more self-sufficient can help through economic downturns, self-employment is becoming more and more the norm. While someone may have all the know-how to create their product or service, they may not have the knowledge to actually run the business or get it started. Become a freelance business plan writer and you can help these individuals realize their dreams.
-Career or Life Coach
It isn’t always easy for people to figure out what’s best for them. Sometimes we just need someone to help us along and to get us through the rough patches. Career and life coaches can help people get to that better place more easily and quickly than they would on their own. If you love people and have a true desire to help them, this may be the business opportunity for you.
-Children’s Book Writer
If you love to write and illustrate and can’t keep good stories out of your head, you may want to give writing a children’s book a try. Luckily, with the iPad and Kindle, it’s easier than ever to get your story out to the masses. You can test your story ideas out with ebook apps on these devices. If one gets extremely popular, you can publish it afterwards.
-Copywriter
With the age of the Internet in full bloom and content marketing becoming the center of it all, the need for copywriting has never been greater. If you have a love of the written word and a firm grasp on the grammar rules that make up our language, becoming a professional editor could be your ideal freelancing business.
-Grant Writer
Non-profits are constantly struggling to get money in the door. Grant writing is a necessary component to raising funds. Your ability to write and research will be the key to your success with this business. As a freelance grant writer, you can help multiple non-profits at once. To help get started, you may want to offer your services for free for the first few grants to establish your resume.
-Home-Based Bakery or Food Business
Take your love for baking or cooking and turn it into your own business. Your culinary skills can be turned into a variety of businesses, from working as a personal chef to baking at home and selling your goods to local stores. If you like cooking for a crowd, you may even want to try your hand at catering. For an in-depth look at this business idea, check out the Small Business Administration’s guide to starting a home-based food production business.
-Online Store Owner
You may have dreamed of owning your own store when you were younger, only to find out later how difficult it is to actually run a brick and mortar store these days. The good news is, you can sell just about anything online. There are plenty of ecommerce solutions online for you to sell your wares, as well as the classic standbys of eBay and Etsy. The trick for selling products online is to make sure to specialize in a certain industry, for instance – secondhand clothing, discounted brand names, vintage finds, housewares, books, geek-related products, art, etc. The options are virtually endless.
-Web Designer
Web design combines the technical know-how of creating a functioning website with the creative requirements of making that site look good and draw in visitors. With the tools available today, almost anyone can create a template-based website, but it takes that special something to make it successful. If you want to challenge yourself in a fairly competitive industry, this might just be the business for you.
-Website Content Writer
Content marketing is a big deal right now, and while many people are running successful websites, they may not be great at churning out compelling content to help promote their business. That’s where you come in. Helping companies write quality articles and blog posts can be a great way to make extra money, especially if your writing gets results.
Tip For Setting Up Your Home Office
In today’s connected world, where technology affords us more flexibility in how and where we work, home-based businesses come in a variety of forms.
While there are plenty of ways to go about starting a home-based business, the following are some of the most approachable paths to creating a home business for yourself:
Here’s how to do it:
Pick a Business Structure
Get Your Tax Numbers
Get Licensed if Necessary (Check to see if the federal, state, county, or city government requires a license for your type of business.
Check Into Local Zoning Laws (If you live in an area with a homeowner’s association, verify that the HOA allows you to run a home-based business. Investigate any other city, town, or county laws that could affect your home business). For example, many local governments place limits on the amount of traffic at a home-based business, as well as restrictions on the type and size of signage permitted or changes to the outside of the property.
Set up your home office space for your business