Being a stay-at-home mom is hard and challenging work, but potential employers often have a hard time seeing how experience with changing diapers and organizing play dates will benefit them. It is not fair, but that is the reality that Joy faced.

Joy had tried a number of work-from-home ventures over the years. She thought about selling on eBay and reviving her Pampered Chef business, but neither job paid enough to survive. So, she looked elsewhere.

A friend had started a preschool in her home and Joy thought that might work for her, so she gave her a call and asked a lot of questions.

Running a home-based preschool turned out to be exactly what she needed. The work and the hours fit her life perfectly and within 30 days she was making the full-time income she needed.

The Internet provided tons of great resources for lesson plans and activities. While doing research for her school lessons, Joy came across an e-book about starting an in-home daycare. Running a preschool was a thousand times better than running a daycare and Joy searched to see if there were similar products

To her surprise, Joy discovered that no one was publishing information about how to run a home-based preschool. So, she made up her mind to write an ebook herself and teach others how to follow in her footsteps.

Info-Publishing the Hard Way…

Joy expected it to be easy to write and publish her e-book. She quickly outlined the e-book she planned to write, but the actual writing never seemed to get done…

…and the details involved in setting up the technical components of an online publishing business were a bit overwhelming – she’d spent the past 8 years as a stay-at-home mom and not as a web develper after all.

Eventually Joy shelved the whole idea of making extra money as an e-book publisher.

A Fateful Encounter…

Joy’s fortunes changed when she discovered a web-based publishing system that worked for her. Instead of ebooks, the system used a fixed length membership website that delivered video based training to her customers and lead them step-by-step through the process of starting their own home-based preschool.

Instead of staring at a blank screen and trying to force herself to write her ebook, Joy was able to use the outline she’d created and record short videos where she shared her insights on each topic. Sharing her ideas this way flowed much easier for her.

The system she followed helped her get her StartAPreschool.com website up and running. Within the first week she made 5 sales!

Joy isn’t exactly an overnight millionaire, but she is steadily building her new online business and still spending time with her kids – that’s a success in her eyes.

Click here to learn more details about how Joy Anderson turned her experience running an in-home preschool into a successful online publishing business…

On November 9, 2005, Jennifer Laycock wrote the first post about a challenge she set for herself  to build  profitable online business that required no startup capital. She gave herself 30 days to turn a profit on the venture.

The typical approach to the problem would have been to sell things on eBay, become an affiliate and promote someone elses products, or create a niche content website and load it up with Adsense ads. But, Jennifer decided to go another route and started a CafePress store to sell t-shirts and other items with slogans she designed to promote breast feeding.

She blogged about the project every day for the duration of the experiment and left a 30 day trail of her entrepreneurial journey. The result is an insight filled roadmap for other online business people.

The net result of her experiment – she generated a total profit of $326.78 over the course of 30 days.

The entire series of articles, plus some additional follow-up writing, was later collected together in a free ebook which can be downloaded at the Search Engine Guide website.

The ebook, a must read for any aspiring online entrepreneur, features a bonus section at the end containing a complete glossary of search engine marketing terms. This is a great resource for people new to the world of online marketing.

Download the ebook: Zero Dollars, A Little Talent, And Thirty Days – PDF

I became a stay at home Mom after the birth of my daughter. I was so enthusiastic when I took the decision to stay at home with her, not knowing how hard it will be. I was tired of the working outside the home routine, and was looking forward to this change of pace. I have been now staying at home for a little more than a year and a half. I have seen it all: from the overwhelming joy to the extreme exhaustion. Despite the hard work and dedication necessitated by the early parenting I am still enjoying being a full time stay at home Mom.

While each step of a child’s development has its own challenges, I personally think that the hardest to tackle are those during baby’s first year, thanks to their nature. Those challenges are physically demanding, not to mention financially. Now that my daughter has well past her first year, she is not even a baby any longer, I have more time to think about projects that I could do to contribute to my family’s earning.

A Mom starting a work at home during baby’s first year could find herself easily irritable. Babies are still very exigent and not quite independent from their principal care giver at such young age. I would suggest postponing working at home until your baby is at least fourteen month-old if the family can afford the wait.

Having a new baby increases expenses in many ways and it is understandable that Moms want to do all they can to contribute to their family’s finances. The arrival of a new baby causes changes in the family life, in all of its aspect. Financially, the difference is even more striking for families that go from two incomes to one.

My family was no exception to this hard fact and I started thinking about an additional source of income. I was highly motivated since we lived on such a tight budget. I did not want to further strain our finances by investing a large amount of money, which we did not have anyway, so I figured I had to work with the resources already available to us, to me.

I put my sewing skills to work and started making simple but useful baby bedding items. Then it occurred to me that I cannot go door to door and sell them so I went online and searched inexpensive ways to run an online store. I have never created a website in my life, but I was determined to help my family and ready to defy any obstacles. I learned a lot through my searches and readings. Among other things, I learned that you find what you are looking for. So I always incorporated the word free in my search query, and the more I searched, the more free resources I found. Then one day I found out that with some basic knowledge of HTML I could really use one of those website builders to create my very own website! I worked right at it. If I had not much money, I did have all the willingness, the time and the courage to do whatever it takes to own my website. Guess what? I do now. Hard work does pay off.

However, having an online store is not the end of my endeavor, there are still a lot to do to keep my boutique running, one of which is promoting it. Let us not forget that creating an additional income was the goal at the first place. Owning an online store is just one of the means to achieve it.

Now I am a very busy work at home Mom, taking care of my daughter, my family, my customers and promoting my website. I agree it requires strong willingness, patience and dedication, but believe me, it is rewarding. You will be proud of your achievement. Now imagine what stay at home Moms can do. You do not have to have a lot to start something you are passionate about. The possibilities are countless.

About the author:

Sara Mahen is a stay at home Mom who loves sewing and writing. She owns Oh Petit Bebe, an online boutique featuring her quality custom baby bedding and accessories. She also enjoys writing about beautiful things

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Seems a bit far-fetched, doesn’t it? Well, its not, and it is completely true. My first money made online was completely by accident, and I didn’t have to put in any effort at all. In fact, it is this first $100 made online that made me realize that there is real money to be made on the internet and plenty of it to go around. Lots of people have made money this way, and who knows, you may get lucky just like I did. Alright, I think I have built up enough suspense, time to get to business. About a year ago, I filmed my cat doing a wall run and jumping over a fence. I thought this was a really cool video so I put it up on YouTube.

The video received thousands of views since then, after I had forgotten about it. One day I get an email requesting the use of my video on a website or television. They offered $100 for the video, and I gladly agreed to send them a higher quality version of the video.

A few weeks later I got a check in the mail for $100, just as promised. My first $100 made online, and all I did was make a video of my cat. Now I am also using the popularity of the video to promote my websites. Of course, I got very lucky, but this just goes to show that you can make money in some very unexpected ways, so don’t get discouraged if you haven’t made that first sale yet.

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