Moms: Home Based Business Ideas

Many moms are looking for home based business ideas. As moms we are often torn between work and kids. Starting a home based business gives us the flexibility to spend time with our kids and earn an income. The internet has opened up many new opportunities too. Building a website can help as a marketing tool for our home business. It can also be a business in itself if used to earn an income from Google adsense or affiliate commissions. Here are some ideas to help you get started:

  1. Promotional Products Business
    In this day and age, small and big business owners alike, compete against each other to cut a niche in the marketing world. Aggressive advertising is one way companies put forth their business image to build awareness of their company’s name to their target market.
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  2. Selling items on eBay
    Pretty much everyone has items within their home, garage or storage shed that they don’t want or need anymore. We all would like to get rid of the “stuff” we’ve accumulated over the years, but we would also like to make some money from it in the process.
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  3. Home Embroidery Business
    Embroidered designs are seen on everything from T-shirts to bath towels.  There’s plenty of need for embroidered products; you just have to find your niche within the market. People like the personalized designs of embroidery to show off on themselves or their pets. You could target your services to pet stores, sporting goods stores, or maybe even your local golf courses. Another option might be to target local businesses to see if they want a variety of items to use as promotional products.
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  4. Direct Sales Business
    If you’re interested in starting a business that you could run from your own home, selling products, you might want to look into a Direct Sales business opportunity. You may have heard of Tupperware, Avon, Pampered Chef or Home and Garden. They are just a few of many business opportunities available that a person could join to begin a product-focused business.
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  5. Coaching Business
    A Coach mentors others who have goals they want to achieve, by helping them decide the steps needed and supporting them throughout the entire process. A life coach might help someone change careers, get a promotion or just develop personal relationships.
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  6. Tips to Help You Become a Life Coach
    Life Coaches are emerging more and more every day. A life coach is someone that works with you in whatever area of your life you choose. Most people use coaches because they want someone there to encourage them and ‘push’ them to reach their goals.
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  7. Web Design Business
    The internet has become a big money making business. Small business owners can reach people across the country and around the world to let them know what they have to offer. The link they have to these prospective customers is their website.
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  8. Medical Transcription Business
    A Medical Transcriptionist takes a physician’s dictated notes and types them up to be put in the patient’s medical file. When you consider how many patients any given doctor sees in a day you can just imagine the high demand there is for the services of an MT professional.
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  9. General Transcription Business
    Are you a good listener? Can you type well? Can you follow directions? Are you looking for a business to run from your own home? If you answered yes to all these questions, then you should consider starting your own General Transcription Business.
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  10. Virtual Assistant Business
    A Virtual Assistant is an administrative professional who works from a remote location, usually without ever stepping foot into the client’s office.
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  11. Tips to Help Get Your Virtual Assistant Business Up and Running
    A Virtual Assistant does many different things. The area of expertise for a VA is going to depend on each individual. Most virtual assistants provide services to business owners that they do not have the time to do themselves such as checking and replying to emails, article submissions, website updating, forum moderation, transcribing audio, sending newsletters, and many more.
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  12. Ghostwriting Business
    Ghostwriting is a freelance writing business opportunity. You provide a service for other people – writing for them, but you do not retain any rights for the work. This means you can not put your name on the work or take credit for it. Even though your writing will not be published as your own, you can still make an excellent living through Ghostwriting. A great way to start is by targeting internet business owners to find your first clients.
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  13. How to Become a Ghostwriter
    A ghostwriter is someone that gets paid to write for other people. Once a ghostwriter has written the article, book, speech, etc, and the customer has paid the ghostwriter, the customer then owns sole rights to it, can put their name on it and use it however they choose. The ghostwriter retains no rights and gets no public credit for the work.

    If you are a skilled writer, proofreader, etc. ghostwriting could be just the business for you.
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  14. How to Start Your Own Gift Basket Supply Business
    Gift baskets are in great demand.  They make fantastic presents and you can now find gift baskes to suit just about any occasions.  This means that you can start a gift basket supply business which offers anything from from gourmet foods, chocolates and teas to body lotions, birthday items, special occasion products for wedding gift baskets, and more.
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  15. Making Money with Affiliate Marketing
    Affiliate marketing is a way to create an income for simply promoting other people's products. You find a product or service that you want to promote and sign up for their affiliate program. Once the customer has clicked on the affiliate link your job is done. Hopefully a good percentage of your referrals make a purchase and you earn a commission with no items to package or ship and no payments to process.
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  16. Making Money with Information Products
    People look to the internet each and every day for information. What better way to make some income than selling what people are looking for – information? If you are knowledgeable in a specialized area such as small business coaching then create an information product that will appeal to people about small businesses (for example - helping a small business owner through the start up process). With home based businesses becoming more and more popular today the need for information products is becoming more and more in demand.
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  17. Start a Soap Making Business
    If you have a love for soaps and making your own and are planning on starting your own business keep in mind that customers are looking for uniqueness. Customers or possible customers will be on the lookout for a variety of soaps – different scent options, different shapes and sizes. Another thing your business should be able to offer your customers is a variety of soap kinds – such as hypoallergenic, natural, goat’s milk, oatmeal, etc. These are all part of a unique selling point that you can use to build your business.
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  18. Starting a Children's Tutoring Business
    Schools today put more and more pressure on students to perform. Classroom crowding means that most teachers are unable to provide the individual support that many children need. Parents are often seeking one-on-one help from tutors. A child’s tutoring service can provide individual training in areas of reading, writing and math along with other specialized areas.
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  19. Starting a Cleaning Service
    In today’s society families are so busy with running kids to soccer; dance, piano, and everything else that comes up that the need for cleaning services are becoming more and more in demand. A cleaning business can be basic where you have one or two houses you clean for a profit or grow larger where you have several maids or cleaners working for you and you concentrate on marketing the business. 
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  20. Starting a Computer support Business
    If you can offer support in the areas of viruses, software issues, spyware concerns, hard drives, etc. then opening up a computer support business from home may be right for you. Your support business can bring some much needed help to other home or even businesses computer users.
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  21. Starting a Home Based Secretarial Business
    Someone that begins a secretarial service can offer a variety of services to their clients and what you choose to do will depend on your areas of expertise. A few examples of what a secretarial service might offer are: transcription, bookkeeping, preparing spreadsheets, word processing, etc.
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  22. Starting a Party Supply Business
    I know from personal experience that when it comes to planning a party it can sometimes be overwhelming. More often than not local party supply stores only carry this item or that item, not everything that I need to pull a party off. From a customer standpoint, looking for a party supply business I am looking for that company that offers the one stop shopping trip.
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  23. Starting Your Own Home Based Bookkeeping Service
    Many small business owners will hire a bookkeeper to keep track of their day to day expenses and income. A basic bookkeeper keeps tracks of expenses, profit, receipts, etc. and enters the information into a computer program. The bookkeeper will then provide the information to their client on a monthly basis or however frequent the client requests to be updated.
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  24. Tips for Starting a Catering Business
    A catering business is a service oriented business. Caterers will provide food, sometimes supplies and service for social events like weddings, anniversary parties and just about any other gathering.
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  25. Starting Your Own Candle Business
    There are a few different ways that you can start a candle business. There are many Direct sales companies which give you the freedom of running your own business while they supply the candles. If you prefer you can always make your own and start your own business from scratch.
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