Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Work From Home Jobs for Moms

When moms think about jobs, they usually do not envision working at home. Most moms would think that they have to go to the office for 8 hours a day. This usually discourages them from working because then they would not be able to stay at home to take care of their kids. However, moms should know that there are plenty of opportunities for home employment. Since the days of high speed internet, working at home is pretty common now.

If you like to write, you may want to consider writing a book. Usually with writing books, you can do it at your own pace. You can even do self publishing or even just create an e-book. The barriers to entry are pretty low. There are a number of avenues you can sell your book or e-book. If you wrote an e-book you can use such sites as Clickbank to help promote. People that promote your product will get a cut of the profits. You can also start your own blog. Once it gets alot of visitors, you can sell your own products on it. As long as you have built up a good following of people who trust you, they would most likely trust your opinion of the product that you are promoting.

These days call centers are increasing allowing their employees to work at home. The employees would need a dedicated phone line and a computer. As a call center customer service, you would take and make calls and basically help customers when they need it. One company that you can try is Alpineaccess.

Another job that you can work at home is being a medical or legal transcriptionist. As a transcriptionist you would type up a doctor or lawyer’s notes. You need to be a fast typist in order to do this job. You would be paid by the hour or by the amount of words that you typed.

For those WAHMs or work at home moms who are entrepreneurial, you may want to start your own business. There are a lot of businesses that you could do right from your own home. For example, you could start your own eBay business. If you have an eye for providing products at the lowest price or hard to find products, this may be the business for you. A traditional work at home business could be tutoring if you are good at academics. One subject that students need a lot of help in is math. If you are good at math this could be the thing for you. Depending on the type of people that you tutor, you could make quite a bit of money.

When you are looking for legitimate work at home jobs, make sure that the people offering these jobs don’t charge you. You should never have to pay anything to work at home. Be on the lookout for scams and do your research before you apply.

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