Jobs For Work At Home Moms

There are many reasons why mothers look for ways to work from home but they can be usually be summed up as necessity. Mothers want to be home to raise and nurture their children and need to contribute to the family income. Working from home is the ideal solution.

In the past, women often took in laundry and ironing. It wasn’t glamorous or exciting, but it paid the bills. Believe it or not, some still offer this service. It seems there are “business professionals” who have few domestic abilities and even less time, and are quite happy to pay someone else to do those things. This is definitely a win-win situation.

There is a new field of work called “home shoring” (as opposed to “off shoring”) that is very appealing to a lot of Work At Home Moms.

Probably all of us have at one time or another called a large corporation for customer assistance and found ourselves speaking to someone with a thick foreign accent that we had trouble understanding and who did not seem to understand us all that well, either. What many people haven’t realized is that person is in a call center on the other side of the planet, because wages “over there” are so low that it is cheaper for the corporation to maintain a foreign facility than to pay going domestic wages. This is called “off shoring” and has been common for years.

However, many businesses have discovered that their customers are taking their business elsewhere out of sheer frustration with the whole international call center process.

Enter the idea of “home shoring.” With high-speed internet connections, a good quality phone with headset, and a pleasant speaking voice, many moms are now doing from home what the international people were doing in the call centers.
This is also a win-win arrangement. Businesses hire people who can culturally identify with their customers, and have little to no overhead as their employees are working at home. This means no building, no utilities, no equipment, fewer supervisors, etc. Sometimes the “employees” are actually “independent contractors” responsible for their own taxes and insurance, further reducing expenses for the businesses. Maybe the best “win” of all is that jobs stay “home” instead of being shipped overseas, thereby reducing the unemployment rate instead of making it worse.

The moms have some flexibility in their schedules, although they must schedule work during times when the house is quiet. This is essential as businesses still demand a professional atmosphere for callers, and normal household noises (dogs, kids, doorbells, lawnmowers, etc.) don’t give a professional impression. The irregular work hours leave the mom free and available to tend to the needs of her children after school or when ill, and also provide a steady income for the family.

“Home shoring” is a trend that is likely to continue. The price of gasoline keeps going up, and working from home eliminates the commute. More and more moms are realizing the need to find a way to be there for their kids as well as contribute financially to the family. For many moms, “home shoring” is the ideal solution. Businesses, recognizing the value of utilizing a home-grown labor force, are increasingly tapping into this growing resource.


Sandi Moses has been involved in internet marketing since November, 2003, and working from home since 2005. For more Work From Home information and home shoring opportunities, visit her sites at
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'Tis The Season For A Work From Home Frenzy

Every January and February, more people than at any other time of year begin looking for ways to make money working from home. I'm not sure if it's because they spent too much money on Christmas gifts, or made a New Year's Resolution, or what, but it happens every year.

People who feature Work From Home Opportunities and Home Based BizOpps are very aware of this and are heavily advertising in hopes of snaring their share of the market.

Some of them are totally legitimate and are genuinely interested in helping you find what works for you. Yes, they are making a living off it, but when they connect you with something that enables you to also make a living from home, it is truly a win-win situation. There is nothing wrong with that.

Others couldn't care less whether they connect you with something helpful or not. As long as they make money off it, that's all they care about. Those are the people to avoid if you possible can.

Word to the wise from the voice of experience: Do Your Homework. As an old commercial used to say, "Investigate before you invest."

Don't be afraid to hold off. People who stick their big toes in the water before jumping in, so to speak, live longer.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Think about what you enjoy doing and what you detest doing.

What are your skills and what have you never been any good at doing?

If you are looking for home-based employment opportunities, please check out Ignotius. Your sign-up fee is immediately deposited back into your account, making your net cost *FREE* and that's about as good as it gets.

If you are interested in your own home business, check out Bizymoms or any of the other ideas listed down the right side of this blog.

Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: Letters From Santa (and others)

This is a very legitimate home business done successfully by many moms. You market it to schools, churches, hospitals, day care centers, anywhere there are kids and parents.

You really need 2 skills for this one and you need to be - or become - quite good at both of them.

First, you need to be able to market what you have to offer. Start with people you know such as your church, school, doctor's office, dentist's office, even co-workers, etc. Ask if you can leave fliers on a table or in a rack. Branch out to areas where you are not known. Hopefully that will include your local Childrens Hospital (if you are known there it means your lid is sick and that is not a good thing.)

If you get queasy at the thought of marketing, maybe this isn't the home business for you. In order to be successful at this you will have to sell folks on the idea that it will be fun for their kids to get such a letter, and you are just the one to put it together for them!

The other skill you will need is the ability to write. If the parents see a poorly composed letter riddled with grammatical and spelling errors, not only will you not get any repeat business, but they will tell their friends and neighbors what a crummy job you did! Word of mouth is powerful - good or bad!

This is a home business that can be done all year long with different characters. Think Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, any non-copyrighted character.

If you would like to explore the possibility of starting a home business like this, let me recommend a kit from Bizymoms. Right now they are running a Holiday Special - for a limited time you can get the kit for only $49, which is a whopping savings of $100 off!

If you are even a little bit interested, jump at this now so you don't kick yourself in the tush later!

Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: Take the FREE Home Business Survey . . .

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There are several variations on this theme. Most of them have you fill out a short form with your name, address, phone number, and maybe interests or whatever.

You have just become a "prospect" or a "lead." The person whose site you signed up through is paid a small amount for doing the work of providing the lead - your name and contact info. Your contact info is sold to home business owners looking to expand and grow their home businesses.

==> There is no point in not providing good info. You won't get any information about the work at home opportunities you are interested in, and the company will take back the money they paid the person whose site you signed up from. That person is most likely a wahm as you would like to be. If it makes you feel better, provide a throw-away e-mail address.

Anyway, you are then contacted by up to five people to see if you would be interested in working the business they are working. They will do their best to state their case - it is up to you to know your self, you strengths, weaknesses, and abilities.

If you are not interested, just say so. Most of them will not waste any more of their time or yours. If you get a "bad apple" report him or her to the lead generation company (on the bottom of the form you filled out in the first place, and to the company they represent. You will be writing all this down for future reference, right?

Overall, this is a good way for you to find out some of the ways to make money from home that are "out there." There no cost to you, so you have nothing to lose.

Keep in mind that these are not the only work from home opportunities available, so if you don't find what you are looking for, you are welcome to visit my 2 sites, listed to the right. On both of them you will find a wide variety of choices!

Holiday Season Special

As you may or may not know, Bizymoms is one of the most respected Home Business sites on the internet. Everything they offer is totally legitimate and geared towards helping you be a successful Home Business Mom.

This year they are offering the most incredible gift I have seen from a Home Business. For a limited time only you can get one their Premium Career Kits for only $49! That is an incredible $100 off!

If you have even considered becoming a Virtual Assistant, or starting a Candy Wrapping Business, a business writing personal Letters to Kids from their favorite characters, starting a Welcome Business or a Tutoring Business, you really need to check this out!

Hint: A Bizymoms Premium Career Kit might make the perfect gift for that mom who has been aching to Work From Home.

Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: Home Assembly of Craft Items

This one sounds so good! A wholesale distributor sends you "kits." You put them together, send the finished product back, and get paid for your time, effort and skill. All in the comfort of your own home.

You envision quality craft items similar to what you've seen at local craft fairs. Unfortunately what you get more closely resembles the mass-produced-in-China stuff you get as a consolation prize in the fun zone at the County Fair.

Worse than that, somehow your work never quite measures up to standards, so you don't get paid for what you did. You are out the money you paid for the "kits" and your chances of selling any remaining items to recover your costs are not good at all.

Let me give you a first-hand example of why that cheap mass-produced stuff will never be profitable to you.

I recently bought a pair of rubber flip-flops at Wal-Mart. They were not on sale - I paid the regular price. We have to assume that everyone who handled these items did so at a profit - no matter how small. The raw material was either produced in or sent to China - at a profit to someone. The raw material was processed and then formed into the finished product - at a profit to someone. The finished product was transported to a port city - at a profit to someone. The finished product was shipped across the Pacific Ocean, unloaded probably at Long Beach, transported to some central Wal-Mart distribution point, transported to my local Wal-Mart, unpacked, shelved, and sold. All at a profit to someone.

I paid $1.00. One whole dollar.

It does not matter what the product is - the process is the same. And this article is not the place to discuss the moral or political issues of so much work for so little compensation.

The point here is you cannot compete with this process. You will never win.

If you want to make money from home doing crafts, you need to have God-given artistic talent and create your own items. If God gave you other abilities, you need to find some other way to make money.

If you need to work out of your home, you need to associate yourself with someone reliable. I recommend Ignotius. Ignotius has hundreds of clients, growing by the day, that need data entry, telephone answering services, general writing, virtual assistants and clerical work done. This is the same type of work done in any business office. When they outsource their work to you, their clients get great service, and you get to make money while working where you are most comfortable - from your home.

Best of all you can do this right now for FREE! Click here for more information.

Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: Blogsvertise

As I have posted here, and here, a lot of people are searching the internet looking for ways to make money from home without having to sink a lot of money - or even any money - into the endeavor. Usually it's because they are struggling "to keep body and soul together" as it is and just cannot afford to spend any more money.

Businesses are always looking for new and creative ways to market their products and services. One of the latest and most innovative is to take advantage of the blog phenomenon by actually having bloggers write about these products and services in their blogs!

Enter Blogsvertise. This is the perfect opportunity for people who need to start up on a shoe string. There are several places to start a blog for absolutely free, including right here on bogger.com.

So how does Blogsvertise work?

If you are a blogger, first you register your blog with Blogsvertise. Once approved, you are assigned opportunities to write about in your blog. The rules must be followed (of course) but they are very straight-forward. Honesty is valued - you will not have to compromise your integrity for pay. If you have less than a glowing opinion of a website, product, or service, you are free to say so.

Business who would like to be featured in blogs across the internet can sign up with Blogsvertise and begin to greatly increase your internet exposure as your business travels virally through the blogging world.

Interested? Sign up with Blogsvertise today!