Child’s Play: Earning Tips for Stay-at-Home Parents
Kids can be hard work, stressful and expensive to boot. Luckily, if you’re a stay-at-home parent, there are plenty of ways to earn extra cash and fit this work around your home life. Whether you’re hoping to go freelance, start a new business, or chip in on a part-time basis, you’ll find an option that suits you – here are a few to consider, presented by Ben-Drake.com.
Private Tutoring
Thanks to remote learning, it’s now possible to monetize your skills and share them with students from all over the world. Noted tutoring platforms such as Teachable, Thinkific, and LearnDash are excellent ways to connect directly with your pupils, as well as create/sell courses, tests, quizzes, and run conferences. Almost any skill can be converted into an online class – just make sure you look at the rates or wages for your particular subject.
Arts and Crafts
If you have a creative talent that involves painting, sculpting, knitting, or any other kind of hand-made crafting, you can earn a viable living by selling your work through ecommerce sites such as Etsy. With a basic knowledge of the site’s functionality, it’s easy to cultivate a mailing list and build your shop reputation to help ensure a long-term income. Check out some of these handy tips to give yourself an early leg up.
Customer Service
Those with strong people skills often thrive in customer service roles, and, thanks to remote working, this is a feasible part-time or freelance option. Responsibilities usually include taking phone calls, inquiry response, and customer assistance, and may sometimes involve a few simple administrative tasks. It will also help if you have the space and ambiance at home to speak clearly and basic abilities with computers/technology.
Accounting Clerk
A great option for anyone with mathematical skills is accountancy. Many agencies require clerks to handle simple tasks such as record maintenance, clerical support, bookkeeping, bank statement reconciliation, report writing, and transaction processing. Depending on where you work, this can be a well-paid role, and you won’t need any formal qualifications – just a strong ability with word processing, data entry, and general computing.
Social Media Management
If you aren’t already fatigued by social media, it’s possible to earn a hefty wage managing channels for someone else. Social media management earnings tend to scale with your skill level and experience – who knows, with a few smaller clients under your belt, you may be able to command a higher salary, working for larger businesses. Requirements for this role include a basic understanding of the social media platform in question, content editing tools, audience controls, the ability to write strong posts, and the patience to engage with other users regularly.
Business Planning
If any of the above options appeal to you, it’s useful to think about how you might go about finding an employer, potential clients, or the next steps to start a new business from the ground up. For this reason, it’s often worth developing a business plan – this should describe your company, detail how you might sell your services, and outline any financial requirements or projections. Once you have a plan in place, you can begin carrying out research to identify the best strategy of execution.
However, if you already have a business, you should make plans to re-evaulate your plan and if you need to make any adjustments for the future. A few of the things you should consider are reviewing your website (a bad website can turn away customers and clients), getting your financials in order (this may include getting a jumpstart on your taxes), and setting a course for the future. Even just a few tweaks here and there can help you freshen up a stale plan.
Stay-at-home parents are often strapped for time and energy. It’s a good thing, then, that in the modern world, the work comes to us. Using the right technology and some forward initiative, you can set the foundations for a more independent, lucrative professional life.
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