It is no joke that raising children is expensive more especially the first year of their lives and as such any extra income is welcomed. With so many scammers offering business opportunities that promise individuals chances to become millionaires or even billionaires overnight it is often frustrating for stay-at-home mothers who want legitimate ways to earn extra income for their household.
Some legitimate opportunities require an individual to part ways with more money in order to join their network ‘parties’. Below are some of the ways stay-at-home mothers can utilise their skills to make extra income at the comfort of their homes.
1. Tutor
Are you good at any subject be it Maths, Sciences, and others? Depending on your proficiency, you can make money by giving Primary, Junior or senior school student extra lessons after school. You can even offer cooking lessons.
2. Offer Hairdo Services
Can you do magic with hair? Why not plait or do hairstyles services to your neighbours and friends to make passive income? Make sure you give quality and good job because your customer’s hairstyle will act as an indirect advertising platform.
3. Kids Party Planner
Do you enjoy planning and hosting your child(ren)’s birthday parties? You can make money by starting a children’s animation theme party planning business. You will need equipment such as party tables, chairs and costumes. If you cannot afford to buy them, you can rent them but just make sure that your planning price covers the rental fee in order to make profit.
Remember happy parent and child means free marketing through word-of-mouth.
4. Language Teacher
You can take advantage of your native language knowledge by offering foreigners lessons. Many people will take the opportunity of learning a foreign language this includes sign language too. If you are fluent in other languages, you can offer more than one language lessons.
Advertise your classes in the local papers.
5. Babysitting
Do you love children? How about turning that passion into money? There are parents out there who will appreciate a sense of friendly, intimate care for their children than leaving them in packed nurseries or kindergartens.
6. Gift Basket Maker
If packaging gifts for your family gives you the butterflies then you can supplement your family’s income by becoming a gift basket maker. You can offer gift basket for various occasions or you can choose one theme e.g. sympathy events, birthday goodies bags, corporate baskets, anniversaries or wedding gift baskets.
Setup an eCommerce website that will enable your customers to place orders online.
7. Garage sale
Make extra cash by de-cluttering your house. Use social media such as Facebook to advertise; take pictures of some of the items on sale and post them in the Facebook groups you have joined.
8. Rent out a room
If you have an extra room in your house and you don’t mind sharing then why not turn it into cash cow by renting it out. Just make sure you have governing rules such as who and when to clean, whether to share food or not and visitors’ regulations into the open so that the arrangement can work for both of you.
9. Become an Influencer
You can turn your followers into source of income by posting third party ads on your account. All you need is to have a few thousands of followers in any of your active social media account to sign up and become an influencer. Try Webfluencial.
10. Become a Seamstress/Dressmaker
If you can turn a simple cloth into a ‘dressable’ item with just a needle and thread then why not make money from your skill? Search the internet for patterns and be on the lookout for new fashion trends and try to copy them. Take pictures of your designs and advertise your work on social media such as Facebook and Instagram. To keep your overhead and startup cost low, buy a second-hand sewing machine from a local pawn shop and ask your customers to bring their own fabric material.
11. Photographer
If you are skilled at taking photos, you can sell your work to Sites that are looking to buy digital photos. Try these popular sites:
Make sure your photos meet all the requirements needed to submit for each Site as poor quality work may results in your work being rejected.
You can also use DeviantART to advertise your work.
12. Offer your services on Fiverr
Are you a graphic designer or good at logo designing, writing resumes programming or website SEO? Then you can sell your services on Fiverr by creating a $5 gig. You can include some ‘add on’ to make extra cash – don’t forget to promote your gigs through other social media platforms such as Facebook.
Fiverr is the online market where any thing goes - even gigs where someone offers the service of being your 'long lost friend' for a fee, weird stuff, hey!
Bonuses:
Sell Your 'New-like' Old Stuff
If you have old stuff packed somewhere in the house, you can get rid of them and make money at the same time. There are people out there who will pay to have your old valuable household items including old TV or shoes (just make sure they are still wearable). Use site such as eBay
Sell your Craft on Etsy
For those with creative hands, you can start by setting up your Etsy store for free to sell your crafts. All you need is 30 minutes of your time and to list an item it will cost just $0.20 for 4 months. You can sell you knitted items, craft or paintings online too on Etsy.
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