How can a stay-at-home mom make Money from home?

Programs are total bull crap plain and simple. You've seen the ads like “process rebates at home� Or “take surveys and make $250/day�

And the infamous “make money surfing the net�. These are all total garbage. Basically if you see an ad for these pop up on some site while you're checking the weather or reading a blog it's probably a scam.

The trick to these scams is they either make it too complicated for your average person to attempt for more than a week or they secretly have a recurring charge that you won't notice on your credit card bill for a month or two.By then, even if you can cancel the membership immediately (which is always a pain in the ass) you're already out $100 or so and a refund could take forever to happen if it's even available. Now, you've just had a major blow to your motivation to even TRY to work online. I've been there myself.

The best rule of thumb is to JUST SAY NO to anything that sounds too good to be true. Will Kim Smith from Arkansas really show you how she makes $2500 a week? No.

Why would she? If she did, it certainly would cost more than $37. There are some specialized programs out there that are amazing and will work great and I'll list those at the bottom of this handbook with a description of who will benefit from them and what they do.

Self Assessment Do you have what it takes to work at home? I won't lie to you here. I've had many close friends ask me how I make more than them while it seems like I'm playing with my kids, playing video games, and generally screwing around ½ the day.

I'll sit them down and show them exactly where my money is coming from and they'll be interested for about a week before giving up. The first couple weeks or even months of working at home it's likely you'll see very little money coming in. I recommend NOT quitting your job until you are absolutely positive you can pull it off.

You should have a good idea by the end of this handbook whether or not working at home is right for you (it's definitely not for everyone). The main motivating force for someone working at home is themselves. It's a strange feeling at first knowing you are the one in charge of everything.

You set your own schedule, you have to keep yourself on task, and anything that doesn't go right is your fault. You can't blame Timmy the new employee for missing your quota at work. You're on your own and that can be terrifying for people who need a very structured workplace and some simply can't handle it.Is your home environment compatible with your job choice?

Your home environment is extremely important when it comes to working at home. If you live underneath an elevated train and plan to do audio transcribing, you're screwed.It's just not happening. There is a lot to consider but many work at home jobs can be done successfully even in the most hostile home environments.

Computer location is a big factor here. If you don't have kids, you can pretty much go wild and set up your home office area anywhere, if you have kids, you'll want your computer in an area they can't easily access. If you have a laptop, your couch or recliner could be your new workplace.

You'll want somewhere comfortable as you'll be spending hours sitting there each URL4 matter what your job choice, you're going to need some quiet time. Many work at home parents get a majority of their work done during school hours and after the kids go to bed. My favorite technique is to put on some noise canceling headphones and work in 1-1.5 hour bursts.

If not, while working, I end up with a lot of “knock it off! €? And “get down from there!

€? Every few minutes which can really annihilate your train of thought.Is your computer good enough for the job? Having a good, reliable computer is one of the most important aspects of working at home.

An old computer will be more prone to failure, may not be able to run software you need, and may disqualify you from certain jobs such as customer support if your computer is simply too old. You can typically do most blogging and writing jobs even with an early 2000s computer but an upgrade should definitely be at the top of your priority list. A decent internet connection is a must have as well.

Cable or DSL are both decent options. If you know you can make it work and your computer is adequate, there's nothing stopping you now so lets get right into the good stuff, where your time is going to turn into cash! Blogging The appeal of the blog is that any person of any age can simply hop on the computer and write whatever they want whenever they want.

This is a great way to start learning the basics of how websites work, what people are interested in, and can be a foot in the door to affiliate marketing. Here are some of the most common free blog sites where you can pretty much put anything you want on your blog and go wild: https://www.blogger.com/start http://blog.com/ http://vox.com/ http://wordpress.com/ two. By0 Is blogging a stepping stone to success or waste of time?

This is going to be the biggest question you'll face when it comes to blogs. If you are completely new to how blogs and websites function, how the different templates work, and what blogs are actually all about, this is where you want to start. Why?

There are three main reasons you are going to want to start a blog or two (or dozens). Backlinks Backlinks are links people click that will take them to your blog. If you want more traffic to a specific blog or site, the more backlinks you have, the more likely someone searching for something related to your blog will end up there.

Let's say you have a blog about golfing. You've been posting golf stories and tips on that blog for about a month but nobody seems to be visiting. You make another blog about golfing equipment and on each one of these blogs provide a link to the other one.

You now have two related blogs that are intertwined which doubles the chances of visitors to both blogs (as long as they are searching for golf stuff). Blogs are great places to put all kinds of links to any site or blog that you want more visitors to be able to find. You can think of it as a physical office building.

If it's in a cul de sac, not many people will drive by it but if it's on a busy corner near a freeway, odds are more people will see it. Experimentation A great thing about blogs is you can change everything about the blog very easily. You can change the complete look of the blog without losing anything you've put on it and mess with all the settings without having to worry about screwing up any code that could render a normal website unusable.

It's also pretty fun to try out different themes to see what works the best for the topic of your blog. Experience As you become more familiar with how blogs work, you will become more experienced in how to embed pictures and video, use hyperlinks, and eventually be ready to turn that blog into something that is much more than just a place to share your silly golf stories. You'll have a place that visitors frequent and you'll gradually become a trusted source of information.

This will also establish you as a writer should you choose that route for working at home. People will want writing examples and it's very easy to send them to a blog so they can check out your skills and writing style. If you have no experience with blogs and websites, blogging is a great way to get your feet wet.

The difference between success and wasting valuable time, however, is the topic or niche of your blog. While blogging can be a fun hobby for some, we are here to make money right? Paid Blogging Sites If you really want to make money using a blog, don't waste your time and just hop right down to Chapter 7: Website Creation for Income.

I cover using blogs to make money there alongside websites because in all honesty, making a real income from blogging alone really isn't the way to go. I like to think of blogs as the underpaid nurses who hand the doctor the scalpel. They are definitely useful but you wouldn't let them do all the work by themselves.

As far as paid blogging goes, there are actually quite a few options to take a look at. My personal favorite is your basic revenue sharing blog platform over at Orble. Orble is one of the few blogging sites that lets you hit the ground running and you start earning income right away.

With Orble, you set up an Adsense account and link it to your Orble account first then you can blog about anything you like. The ads are placed on your blog automatically and anytime someone clicks those ads, you make a little bit of two. By1's not a ton however.

I have one blog on there that I honestly don't maintain very well and I get a check in the mail from Google every 2 months for $100-$150. If you are a blogging fanatic, having multiple blogs on Orble WILL make you money. They have an established community and it's very easy to get people to read your blog posts and subscribe to your blog.

If you post useful (or controversial) information on a regular basis, you'll be getting those Google checks more and more frequently. Orble also gives you your own domain after a few weeks like “xxxx. Com�

Which leads to more visitors. If you already have an established blog somewhere and want to use that to make money, you also have a lot of options. Sites will pay you to review products and services or to place ads on your blog.

Here's some of the most common ones: Sponsored Reviews Link Worth Review Me Pay Per Post Smorty Blogging For Pure Profit Why even bother fooling around with placing ads and reviewing products you don't care about for a little bit of revenue here and there when you can dive in head first and aim for the big bucks? Well, it's good experience and many people love keeping their blogs their own, personal little hobbies. I highly recommend just making blogs to maximize the amount of money you are making each month once you are familiar with how blogs work.

The easiest way to do this is to build blogs around products being offered from affiliate sites such as Clickbank. Clickbank has all kinds of products in various niches and for each visitor you send to a product's site who buys something, you get a commission. There's nothing to it.

The biggest roadblock with blogs is the domain name. People may not find your Blogger blog very easily compared to a normal website like “acneproductsreviewed. Com�.

It's still in your best interest to at least make a couple blogs based around affiliate products just to see how they do. I'll cover this in-depth in Chapter 7. Blogging Strategies Blogs generally aren't the way to go for a full time income at home but they can be a key component that you can use to generate traffic to other blogs/sites, can be used in a resume, and can be used for affiliate marketing.

A blogging strategy that I use for one of my main traffic generating blogs is to have small posts about certain products with a “Click Here For More Information� Link at the bottom of the post. This post will lead to my main website that I use to sell products on so now the blog visitors not only get information from the blog but also the website they end up on that has products for sale relevant to their interests.

The key is to keep the theme the same. If it's a blog about golfing that leads to a golf supply website, it makes perfect sense but if it leads to a site about solar power, that visitor probably will never come back to either one. Double check all your links to make sure they go where you want them to go.

A good way to go with blogs is to have multiple categories around a central theme. If my blog is about dogs, categories could be dog training, dog clothes, dog toys, dog food and in each category, more specific items like dog clicker training, dog training books, etc. This can lead to your blog getting very high in page rankings (shows up higher on searches) gradually. Are you still with me?

The blogging portion of this handbook is definitely not my favorite, I won't lie. I've tried time and time again to use a free blogging site to make money and my results have been less than favorable. If you give it a lot of effort, it's absolutely possible but I recommend a website instead as your “main�

Money maker if you want to go that two. By0 check out Orble though, even if you post just once a week, that $100 Google check that randomly shows up is a nice surprise. Writing Ah, writing.

This is where I first realized I could quit all my jobs and make more money just sitting here on my two. By1 all happened accidentally too. I was fiddling with blogs knowing there was something more out there and I stumbled into sites like Associated Content and Helium.

I was hungry for knowledge so spent a lot of time in the forums talking to people about viable sources of income. For me, writing was a godsend and even today I make about 30% of my monthly income through article writing. If you can spell and have a decent grasp of English grammar, you can easily make around $25/hour simply writing articles throughout the day for various sites.

Paying Sites For Writers There are tons of sites out there that will pay you to write articles on various subjects in the 250-500 word range. The key is to only write for sites that pay you a decent amount of money. You can get 1000 jobs from sites like Freelancer.

Com but they are hit or miss. You don't want to work for less than 3 cents per word if you speak and write English at high school graduate level. One of my first jobs there was 1 cent per word and looking back, I don't know how I did it.

The best paying sites for online writers as of June 2010 are: Associated Content Demand Studios Helium Constant Content I'm leaving out the bidding sites like Freelancer mentioned above and a lot of the “page view earnings only� Site because they simply don't pay enough to make a living with. These 4 sites are the cream of the crop right now and I'll show you why and how you should begin to make a living writing articles.

Associated Content is where you should start first. They give you ideas on what might generate page views and also pay up front for certain two. By4 may not be much at first (around $3 for a small article) but after a couple of months you can become “featured�

In an area or two such as parenting or technology and make $10 per article. The good thing about Associated Content is they don't really limit you. You make your own topics and go from there.

Many people on there routinely make thousands of dollars per month in page views alone by saturating a specific area. If you love gardening, do every gardening topic you can possibly think of and you may get residual payments for many years. I started with Associated Content making between $6 and $8 per article and now make $10 though I usually don't write there much.

Demand Studios is where you want to be. A 500 word article will make you $15 and you get paid twice a week. I do most of my writing for them.

You have to apply and be accepted and that's where having some articles published on Associated Content or a blog come in. You need to have decent spelling and grammar to be accepted here and it's well worth it. To put things in perspective with Demand Studios, say you work 8 hours a day in your current job at $10 per hour.

That's $80. You can write 6 500 word articles for Demand Studios throughout the day at home and make $90. The more you write, the faster you get as URL15 may go slow at first and that $90 will take you about 6 hours but as you get better at the formatting and understand what the editors like, you can do those 6 articles in as little as 3 hours.

You just knocked 5 hours off your work day and make more than you used to. Not bad huh? I've sat down on some days and knocked out 20 articles which made me $300.

The only thing that keeps me from doing that every day is my 4 kids. If you are motivated enough, you can easily make $150 per day with little effort. Helium is a website that operates on page views but has a “Marketplace�

Section where people request articles at a higher than normal rate. I've had some jobs from there where an 800 word article paid me $40 and took about 30 minutes to write. I make sure to check them every day for opportunities.

Constant Content is for the above average writer. The articles you put on there can be sold over and over again for whatever price you deem fit. A good example would be: You place a puppy training article on Constant Content with usage rights at $25 and full rights at $100.

There's no limit to how many people can buy that article at $25 so you can make a lot of money from each article. You don't even have to have full rights as an option (I don't). They also have a request area where people will pay higher than average for specific articles.

Don't skip that. These are the 4 sites I recommend the most. I'll include a list of many more in the references area at the end but I encourage you to get on with Demand Studios as soon as possible.

Writing Strategies With article writing, you aren't so much a writer as an information re-organizer. What I do is have one window open with the writing area then another window with 3-5 tabbed sites with information about what I'm writing about (unless I know the subject very well). This makes it easy to add in-text citations, add addresses, names, and other useful information quickly.

Every article writing site has their own preferred format and the faster you learn that format, the faster you'll be able to produce quality articles. Demand Studios has an amazing writer resource area with examples, do's and don'ts and sites you shouldn't use for reference. Once you have all that memorized, you will be extremely fast at producing articles for two.

By0's not uncommon for me to type up 4-6 articles in the morning which gives me a lot of free time to work on websites and other ventures. Making a real income at home by writing If for some reason the above isn't appealing enough, I'll show you a great formula I use to maximize the amount of money I make per article. First, I claim the amount of articles I plan to do for the day from Demand Studios and Associated Content.

I make sure to complete those before I do anything else. It could be as few as 4 or as many as 10. I have bills to pay and mouths to feed so I shoot for a minimum of $60 per day with writing alone.

I save every article I submit and simply rewrite it so it becomes a new article. This is easily done by having two text documents open so you can simply read a paragraph of your finished article then rewrite it into a new yet similar paragraph quickly and easily. The best advice I can give you to make this a reality is to set yourself a schedule and stick to it no matter what.

Something good on TV? Record it, don't even have the TV on if you can help it. Stay off of Facebook!

You can update how much work you've done but nothing else. DO NOT PLAY GAMES DURING YOUR WORK TIME.

I noticed you said that you knew about freelance writing, but there are other methods of freelancing from home. These include photography, graphic design and building websites. If these are not things you are familiar with, then you could always do something like Zazzle or Cafe Press.

These are places that allow you to place your photographs, wording or designs on products and you earn profit when they sale. Some other ventures include pets. Of course you would want to be selective since you do have a little one, but you could do petting sitting or even let a few dogs out in he neighbor hood during the day.

If you take your baby for a walk, you could also manage walking a well behaved dog for someone. I know some people who babysit out of their home. However, you will want to look into rules and regulations on this more.It might require permits or special insurance.

You will also have to think about your baby with this option. Something I have piddle with in the past is making crafts and selling them. You can sell them on Etsy.

You could also do some baking for other people. Sell things on ebay or yourself and other people. I have known of some people doing customer service out of their home as well, but I have to be honest, this is something I am not familiar with.

Have you tried Epinions. Com? It's not a big money maker, but I used to do it during college for the fun of it.

Epinions is a site where you can write reviews of any products you have owned. You get money based off of if your reviews led to products being sold. The minimum level for payout is $10, and you have to wait for a check.

I don't know why they have not adopted paypal since the last time I used them, but I guess some sites just prefer it this way.

Yes there are all kinds of placing that you can make money online you just have to know where to look and be willing to put forth a little bit of effort. In a typically month am able to supplement my income with at least $200 fom the following 3 websites I have posted them below with explanations of each: zoombucks.com/join.php?ref=spunkymel3 You can search and win, take part in special offers, or complete the daily surveys you get points for all of these and then trade them in for gift cards to places like amazon, target, walmart, nordstrom etc. swagbucks.com/refer/Spunkymel3 Its a search and win site so its like using google but soemtimes you win points you can also do speical offers if you want and can trade in for gift cards or PAYPAL CASH irazoo.com/ReferedNewUser.aspx?Refby=spu... Only a search and win site so just search like you would on google and you will get points for random searches and you can trade them in for gift cards.

Sell old thing on Ebay. * Sign up to helping with the census 2011. All you have to do if you choose the correct job will be wrapping large bundles of census up to be collected and sent through the post.

* Get your boyfriend/husband to post fliers through doors in your block and a bit further offering baking survaces. Hopefully, people will want to buy and collect themselves homebaked cakes and biscuits. * Offer to look after peoples babies or toddlers for them during the day as long as they drop them off at your house at the beginning of the day.

Charge $7.50 per hour.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.