Work From Home Jobs For Moms
- ameliapro99
- Nov 22, 2020
- 6 min read
While there are a ton of work from home job options available on the internet, a few offer a higher income potential.
If you are someone that is aiming big, then I highly recommending starting one of the 7 options below.
I have personally worked with some of the moms in these niches and can confirm that these side hustles can provide a steady source of income.
So forget worrying about a recession or job security.
With these online jobs for moms, you are the boss and are in control over your workload.
Even during the recent 2020 pandemic, I was still able to bring in a steady monthly income. Maybe a little less than usual, because the kids were at home and I wanted to spend some time with them – but that was a very minimal decrease.
But apart from that, I didn’t have to worry about losing a job or what it was going to be like moving forward.
Regardless of whether you are looking for a second job or want to make a full-time income from home, I highly recommend these ideas.
You don’t need to have any work experience or a college degree to start any one of these!
Let’s begin.
1. Sell Wall Art online
Did you know there is a huge market for selling printables and wall art online?
This is not something for just graphic designers and experts in the field.
Anyone who has the motivation and interest to learn can do this.
I personally started creating graphics for my blog about a year ago, and I am someone who hardly uses my computer. Trust me, if I can anyone can!
One of the best guides to help you learn how to make money selling printables is this one, from a fellow mom blogger. I have taken her training that is so easy to understand, and she is very helpful when you reach out to her by email.
From learning about how to create your first printable, where to sell it, how to promote it, how to price it, granting permission to print and taxes.
So what type of printables sell well?
Wall art decor
Inspirational quotes
Scripture cards
Bible verse wall art
Journal pages
Stickers
Zodiac sign printables
Planners – daily/weekly
Checklists – grocery lists
Pantry labels
Printable games
You can even sell colouring pages for kids and adults!
Checkout my printables page, where I offer a few free printables. You can make a bunch of these and sell them for profit!
How much can you earn?
If you are looking to earn an extra $1,000 – $2,000 a month, selling printables is a good option for moms.
2. Photo Graphic editor
Katie makes $75,000 a year editing wedding photos from home. Think this is something that interests you?
The job involves working alongside photographers, where you do the editing of their photos and send it back to them.
The majority of photographers don’t do their own editing. They reach out to private photo editors to do the job for them.
You don’t need some extreme photo editing skills, just the basic photo edits are all that’s required – like brightening up images.
How can you become a photo editor?
Becoming a photo editor is a skill that you can learn at home, on your own time, and at your own pace. After her own successful photo editing business, Katie has created a training to help women make a living as an online photo editor.
Here’s her free online training if you want to check it out.
How much can you earn?
With experience, you can earn between $75-$100 an hour.
3. Proofread articles for mistakes
Bloggers, website owners, ebook authors are some of the many online entrepreneurs that require their posts to be proofread for spotting grammatical errors.
For online business owners, there are so many aspects of the business that needs attention, so they often choose to outsource proofreading tasks to others.
Here are over 25 companies that hire online proofreaders to correct mistakes.
How can you become a proofreader?
Check out this free and popular proofreading training that covers the basics of the proofreading skills needed. You will also learn if proofreading jobs are the perfect side hustle for you, and how to find work.
How much do proofreaders make?
Check out how Caitlin earns over $40,000 a year proofreading from home!
4. COPYWRITING
If you enjoy writing but don’t want to start a blog or be a freelance writer, then you can choose to write one time articles and get paid for each piece you write.
Becoming a freelance writer is a hands-down idea when we come to talk about making money from the comfort of your home, but this job requires a bit of experience and tactics to reach a high level of revenues and become a full-time writer.
Copywriting jobs:
5. Social media manager
How does earning a full-time income managing social media accounts for online business owners and bloggers, sound?
Many of these businesses use Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook to promote their company products.
Your job will be to post regular updates about company products, promote seasonal offers and sales, and also respond to comments left on their social media page.
How to become a social media manager?
My friend Jenn Leach has created this flexible 2-week online training to teach you how to become a profitable social media manager. This course teaches everything starting from the basics;
Where to find clients
How to get started
Forming your business
Making the most money
Scaling your business
Putting it on autopilot
How much can you earn?
Jenn claims to know many social media managers earning a 5-figure income in just 6 months of starting. You can check out her own proof of income here.
6. Pinterest Virtual Assistant
Pinterest is such a popular platform to monetize. Bloggers make use of Pinterest to help promote their content and products.
While Pinterest is great for bloggers, it can come as additional work which bloggers prefer to outsource.
As a Pinterest VA, you take the workload off the bloggers and help in creating graphic pins and manage scheduling pins on the platform.
I use Pinterest marketing and handle all the graphic designing and scheduling myself. Let me tell you, this is one of the easiest side hustles to master.
It took me no longer than 3 weeks to understand how all of this works. Here is a detailed tutorial on how to become a Pinterest VA as a stay-at-home mom.
How much can you earn?
Pinterest VA’s can average between $30-$50 an hour
7. TRANSCRIPTION
This is yet another amazing job opportunity for stay at home mothers. It is quite rather a popular field of work and works around mainly because of the growing demand for the niche.
Companies and marketers of all kinds use transcriptionists. Some are big production companies and others are small mom-and-pop businesses. The demand for qualified transcriptionists will continue to rise. The average median annual income for a general transcriptionist is currently $45,000.Legal transcriptionists can earn around $60,000. Of course, if you start your own business and hire subcontractors while working as a project manager yourself, your income can grow well beyond these figures.
Transcribing Jobs:
- Scribie
- QA World
8.BOOKKEEPING JOBS
Virtual bookkeeping jobs are in high demand nowadays and you don’t need the experience to get started. All you need is an eye for details and a caring spirit. And the best part is that you can earn up to $80 per hour.
Working as a bookkeeper offers some of the highest paying work from home jobs on the internet right now. Yes, you don’t need the experience to become a bookkeeper.
Ben Robinson of Bookkeeper Launch specializes in teaching people how to start their own virtual bookkeeping businesses and land some high paying online jobs without experience.
Your work involves recording financial transactions of small to medium-sized businesses.
If you are looking for no fee work at home jobs that pay well, then I highly encourage you to give bookkeeping some serious thought.
9. SELLING STOCK PHOTOS
If you have a good eye for photography, companies will pay you money for photos which they will turn into stock photos.
It is usually very little you will have to do after submitting the photos, and you get a big chunk of money made from the sale of each of your photos.
Here are some websites you can check out:
Here is a guy who making up to $3000/month just through selling his own pics on a stock website, Click here if you wanna learn how to do that
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