Mompreneur Ideas

Let's first define what a “mompreneur” is.    For this post, a Mompreneur is a woman who takes on two jobs; the first one as a mother and the other as a business owner.   It's been said that being a full-time mom is the equivalent of 2.5 full-time jobs.  Then add all the hats you need to wear in order to run a successful business.   Being a Mompreneur can be tough.  It requires superb time management skills, the ability to juggle your schedule and most importantly creating a life-work balance that allows you to enjoy all the best in life. Because being a mom is already a significant commitment, mons looking to earn money on the side should seriously consider only flexible stay-at-home mom jobs.

Not many moms know the range of options available to them when it comes to flexible stay-at-home mom jobs that can actually pay the bills. Because of the product's technology has availed in the marketplace today, it has become incredibly easy to connect with employers and companies from all over the world. If you fully explore the options available to you as a stay-at-home mom, the question shifts from whether or not you can find gainful employment to whether or not the money you will earn can sustain a family. 

This article will introduce you to amazing flexible stay-at-home mom jobs that pay well. As you would expect of any worthwhile income stream, succeeding at any of these endeavors will require some level of self-discipline and good time management skills. It is very easy to get distracted and not make any meaningful progress on the projects you care about when working from home. Being able to block distractions and manage time well will be a real superpower.

Moms are some of the hardest working individuals in the world. Raising a kid and a family is hard work. I am therefore certain that work ethic will not be an issue for you. You already have what it takes to succeed at most of the jobs discussed below. I would advise, however, that you focus on one job or income stream at a time. You don’t want to spread yourself too thin and end up achieving nothing of consequence.

Baking at Home Like a Pro

Baking at home is one of the most flexible stay-at-home mom jobs out there. But you have to go about it the right way if you want to see significant success. Most people who bake at home do not look at it as a serious business. They are casual in their production and promotion thereby giving themselves and their business no chance to level up. If you are going to do baking as a stay-at-home mom and succeed wildly at it, you have to take it more seriously than the average baker.

There is always a reliable market for food. There is an even greater market for sweet sugary foods. Your job is to make them a little better or cheaper than the competition and then give consumers a chance to buy.

The first thing you should do is perfect your product. You will be amazed at how a little effort put into differentiation can impact the demand for your product. As a stay-at-home mom, you certainly can find the time to do this. Taking a few weeks to put together a good recipe shouldn’t be a hassle. Your point of differentiation can be as simple as making your products more beautiful.

You probably will be selling your products to people and stores in your neighborhood. As a serious business owner, you don’t want a consumer’s first experience with your product to be bad. To avoid the nightmare of having a bad initial product hit the market, do what every serious business owner producing a new product does: test whether or not people will like your product. You should hand out samples and ask for feedback. Seek to know how the taste or presentation (how your product looks) can be improved. With this information, you can revise your recipe and have a product you are sure the market will love.

The most important part of running any business is sales. You won’t have a business if you aren’t selling any products. That would be a hobby. Most people fear sales and freeze at the idea of pitching an idea or product to someone. Not you. You are going to go out and develop a legitimate sales and distribution channel for your products. You can start by approaching small local stores and asking them to sell your items. Most will say no but a few will say yes. That’s all you need to get started. You can also promote your products on social media on highly visual sites such as Instagram and Facebook.

Work as a Search Engine Evaluator

Search engines such as Google are constantly looking to improve the results they serve to their users. The algorithms they use work great but they lack the nuance a human might have when determining what results would best serve certain users based on their intent and the keywords they use.

To bridge this gap between machines and humans, search engines hire real humans to evaluate the results their robots serve to users. You can be one of these people. Most of the popular search engines outsource this function to other companies that have an army of search engine evaluators on hand. Becoming one of these evaluators is one of the best flexible stay-at-home mom jobs on the net.

Some of the popular companies that hire search engine evaluators include LionBridge, ZeroChaos, and Leapforce. You don’t need any special technical computer skills to be hired by these companies.  Employment is usually on a project by project basis. A project can last for several months. Most search engine evaluators, on completing one project, are rehired to start working on another project.

Become an Online Freelancer

Most blogs for moms recommend online freelancing to their readers looking for flexible stay-at-home mom jobs. Online freelancing gives you the freedom to work from home while being able to connect with employers from pretty much every part of the world. There are endless opportunities for those who are willing to look for and go after the kinds of freelance projects they want.

Some of the freelancing skills that are always in demand include:

1. Writing
2. Graphic design
3. Web development
4. App development
5. Data entry
6. Transcription
7. Blogging about any passion - even love for pets
8. Social media management
9. Search Engine Optimization
10. eBook writing (ghostwriting)

You can do several freelance jobs without any specialized training at all. As long as you are able to get the employer the results they want, you are good. It goes without saying that you will need to improve your skills over time if you want to earn more money.

So, where do freelancers find freelance jobs? Believe it or not, you can have a project on your hands as soon as tomorrow if you go about it the right way. You have the option of pitching clients on job boards such as UpWork, Thumbtack, Freelancer, and Guru.com or doing a cold outreach to businesses you think you can help.

A cold outreach can be either in person or through a phone call or email. If you are into web development, for instance, you can browse the web and contact businesses whose websites you think could use some improvement. It helps if you are familiar with the industry the business is in. You will be hired far much faster if you can explain how what you are going to do to their website will actually affect their bottom line.

Freelancing isn’t limited to online gigs. You actually can find consistent work by approaching local businesses. Businesses need writers to write sales letters, marketing copy, and blogs; designers to put together materials such as posters and fliers; developers to build and maintain apps and websites, and social media specialists to maintain their social media accounts. There are a lot of things you can do if you have the necessary skills.

Vlog Your Experiences

Semi-popular Vloggers on YouTube are making a lot of money creating and uploading videos on the platform. If you have an attractive personality, you can attract a decent following in a year or less. The time is going to pass anyway so it really doesn’t matter if it takes months, a year, or longer. This is one of the flexible stay-at-home mom jobs with the greatest upsides if you succeed in a big way. You can leverage your YouTube audience to get into fashion, media, ecommerce, and various other interesting careers.

YouTube pays its creators a share of the advertising dollars companies spends on the platform. The payments are usually based on the number of impressions ads running on your channel get. For every 1000 impressions, you can get paid $1 to as much as $5 or more. It all depends on the niche you are in and how much companies are willing to pay YouTube to serve ads on channels like yours. When you are uploading regularly and getting tens or hundreds of thousands of views, the numbers add pretty fast.

Growth on YouTube is never linear. Your growth during the first few months will be slow and painful. With time, you gain momentum and lots of people start to notice your content. You will then gain subscribers at an exponential rate as you become popular. The wait and grind is usually worth it.

 

Work as a Virtual Assistant

A virtual assistant is a home-based personal assistant offering administrative help to a business person or executive. You can make anything from $15 to $30 per hour doing administrative tasks such as:

1. Making and receiving phone calls
2. Transcribing voice messages
3. Handling customer support
4. Proofreading notes, memos, etc.
5. Managing websites and social media accounts
6. Booking air tickets and hotel rooms
7. Making restaurant reservations
8. Data entry
9. Scheduling appointments
10. Doing internet research

It is important that you choose the clients you work with carefully since the nature of your relationships will determine how happy you are with your job. Being able to work for a long time with the same clients will lead to higher. This is because as they begin to trust you and appreciate your skills, they will be more willing to assign higher paying technical work to you.

 Since seamless communication is a necessity when working as a virtual assistant, you should always seek out clients who are in the same time zone as you.