NOTE: With this article, Towel & Basin continues its celebration of Women’s History Month by serving and supporting, encouraging and empowering women who are making history today.
It may seem to you that moms who work at home sell stuff. They sell Avon, or cooking supplies, or homemade baby blankets. Whatever it is, it’s selling and you want no part of it. Can you work at home without selling stuff?
The answer is both yes and no. It’s true you can work at home without blatantly selling items like skincare and cooking utensils and baby blankets. But, you will always be selling something – yourself, your services, your skills.
Website designer
Many moms with some skill at website design have traded in the office job for the comfort of working at home and designing websites. If you have even an inkling of skill at this (or have access to good software that can do a lot of it for you) you can create good-looking websites for clients.
Writing
Online writing is a popular WAHM job. You can write articles for clients or you can write articles and then market them to potential customers. You can write for revenue-share sites. You could also write eBooks and then sell them online.
Daycare
Many moms open daycare centers so they can be at home with their children but still provide a second income for their families. This works well for many moms because they can provide that second income all while also providing playmates for their own kids.
Inbound calling
One popular job for WAHMs is inbound calling. In this business, you take calls from people making orders from infomercials or shopping networks, or even take pizza orders. You might also perform basic customer service tasks.
Bookkeeping
If you have ever worked as a bookkeeper or in some similar capacity, you can work at home as a bookkeeper, keeping the books for local businesses and perhaps even online businesses. This is an ideal position for the mom who wants to make a nice income at home but wants to work exclusively at home.
Tutoring
Many former teachers are discovering the earning potential of being an online tutor. In this capacity, they tutor students who are having problems in a particular subject area. Most of the work is done exclusively online, reducing the need to travel to work or see clients in the home.
! REALITY CHECK !
All of the jobs above require a certain level of marketing. You must market yourself in order to make yourself known and a desirable solution to prospective clients. That means you are selling something – yourself.
Are you so uncomfortable with selling anything that you don’t believe you can even sell yourself and your services? Then working at home might not be ideal for you (unless, of course, you are employed and simply work at home for your employer).
But, should you decide to work at home in your own business, you must learn to market yourself. You must accept that you have to sell . . . yourself.
If you want to get away from the direct selling that those types of products demand, you can do many other things at home that only require you to sell yourself and your services.
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