The Pathway to Internet Success

Step 1: Review the Offline Work Options for Moms 

Once you have kids, work never feels the same again. 

Take us. Before we were moms, we had full-time jobs. We worked long hours, 

socialised after work, brought papers home, commuted, focused on our careers.
 

Now? Since having children, we’ve tried just about everything.

Working full-time and part-time outside the home, setting up a home-based business, working freelance, taking low-paid jobs to tide us over, saying ‘Yes’ to work that demanded too much - and suffering the consequences - even stopping work altogether. 

Yep. Between us, we’ve done the lot. 

And we’ve realised that our feelings about work are completely different from what they were pre-kids.

Other moms feel the same:

One thing is crystal clear. As a mom, your working needs change drastically. You still want and/or need to work, but you need different options to fit with the changes in your life. 

And that’s where you might have drawn a blank. Finding work that fits isn’t easy. 

Working Outside the Home 

After you became a mom, your first thought might have been to return to a job outside the home, where you’d always worked. That’s what we thought, too. But once you have kids, it isn’t always the best solution. 

You could go back to your old job, part-time, or even full-time. But it’s hard to cope with the pressures, it’s exhausting, it means arranging childcare and, just maybe, it doesn’t give you the same buzz as it did ‘before kids’. 

Another option? You could get a job for £5 an hour, working in an office or serving
food.

You’d have a low-pressure job that brings in some useful cash.

But take that path, and where are you, this time next year... in two years... in five?

Answer:

- still earning £5 per hour, doing work you likely don’t love.

- still earning only when you work.

Work now/pay now provides an instant money-fix. But there’s little or no progression.

And that £5 an hour is quickly spent.

Like us, you've probably discovered that once you're a mom, working outside the home has major drawbacks.

So perhaps you’ve explored the options for working at home, instead.

Working At Home - Offline

What kind of work could fit alongside all the domestic and childcare tasks you do?

Where’s the work you can be paid for?

Here are some of the offline possibilities that WAHMs we talked to have tried:

Service businesses

Sell your knowledge, skills and experience.

You offer your expertise or skills for an hourly rate or a flat fee. Examples:
consulting, bookeeping, medical transcription.

Downside: You need to fund training and equipment, find clients, and work when, and possibly where, it suits them, rather than you. 

Open your own business at home.

Examples: in-home hair or beauty salon, children’s daycare facility.

Downside: Your home might need alterations. You work when clients want your
services, rather than at the best hours for you. You fund your own training, equipment and insurance, and take the wear and tear on your home or rent premises.

Sales businesses

You create or purchase products and re-sell them for a profit.

Make your own product:

Crafts, quilts, baked goods, marketed at craft fairs, kiosks in local stores - the list is
endless.

Downside: You can sell only as much as you can make, unless you outsource. Selling could take up as much, or more, of your time, as making the goods.

Catalogue Sales

There are many catalogue companies, with Avon one of the most well-known. You drop off catalogues to customers, pick up orders and deliver products.

Downside: You spend hours traveling between customers and may be required to work evenings/weekends.

Party plans

You purchase a starter kit, from which you sell make-up, jewelery, kids’ toys, kitchen utensils, etc. for companies like Tupperware and Ann Summers. You take orders at parties held in customers’ homes, and also deliver products.

Downside: You may work difficult hours, as most parties are in the evenings or
weekends.

Multi-level/Network Marketing (MLM)

Herbalife and Amway are well-known companies. You sign up as an
independent representative and buy a supply of goods. Your “upline” is the person who brought you into the business, and you become their “downline”.

You make money when you sell the products you buy from the company.

Uplines earn commissions on their downlines’ sales, so you must recruit other sales people to expandyour own downline.

Downside: You must pressure your downlines to get results. Products are usually
expensive, and you need to store stock. These jobs involve inconvenient hours and
travel, plus you have deadlines, hours that suit others and fluctuating income.

Please don’t misunderstand us…

We are not disparaging the hard-working moms out there who are making money at all of these work-from-home options. We admire their energy and determination, and some certainly do thrive.

(And if you love the work you're currently doing, stay with us,because we're going to show you how you can get more leads, more sales, build a larger client base and downline... without leaving home.)

But we wonder how many moms fall by the wayside sooner or later, discouraged by all that these jobs demand of them in return for payment that is seldom generous, and limited long-term prospects.

We speak from hard-earned experience, and we came to the conclusion that somehow,somewhere, there had to be a better way to earn money.

And that’s why we - like you - went looking for other, more family-friendly ways to earn.

So on to the next step.

Step 2 Going Online