10 Ways Make Money At Home When You Are On Maternity Leave

Choose from these 10 ways that suits you and start earning from home, when you are on maternity leave:

1. Online store: What you need: a computer, Internet access, free programs for creating online stores, Google to help. An online store is a profit-making website where you put up a product for sale. You can sell customers products that you yourself make or you can sell products of manufacturers. Choose a good web hosting company, this is the place where your online store will be located. Then register a good domain name. By looking on any search engine, you would easily be able to get ready-made designs for an online store. A turnkey online store, can be rented or you can buy one and you can even pay for it on installments.

2. Typing: What you need: a computer, a supply of A4 paper, a printer (if you don’t have your own equipment, go around the district and find the most convenient and cheapest copy center). They bring you texts — you just type them on your computer. The work is not hard, but it can get very dreary. Find clients by ad (bargain!). There is cause need to be anxious if your typing speed is slow, a couple of months of work and you will start typing blindly like from a machine gun.

3. Copywriting, writing articles for websites: What you need: computer, Internet, literary ability. How to make money at home from texts? Type in the search engine “Internet magazine”. Go through the forums — often the forum is “fastened” to the portal, and we need it there. Look for the words “feedback” or “editorial”, on the home page of the resource. Send a couple of your materials, as well as info about yourself in the portal format, to the specified email address. In the beginning, quite likely you be offered ridiculous money for work. Don’t get discouraged and keep driving. Slowly but surely, start gaining experience and start expand your portfolio.

4. Babysitting: What you need: a clean room, the ability to work with babies, specialized education (but this is not necessary). You will make money in this way, by looking after the children.

5. Own blog: What you need: a computer, access to the Internet, a blog read by more than 500 people. If you have a personal blog and you get a lot of traffic to it, sooner or later you will be offered paid posts.

6. Rewrite texts: What you need: computer, Internet, excellent knowledge of the Russian language. The customer sends the text, your task is to rewrite it, replacing words in sentences with similar ones in meaning, so that the end result is you get a text on the same topic, having the same message, but it looks completely different. The client places your work, for example, on his website and sleeps peacefully, not fearing that he will be caught plagiarizing.

7. Writing abstracts and term papers: What you need: a computer, Internet access, a set of office equipment (printer, scanner), a supply of A4 paper, a supply of stationery (folders, paper clips , etc. ), teaching aids. The first option for you is that you make yourself an expert on complex subjects. The second option is to put together a team that will do all this work.

8. Visiting focus groups: What you need: come and participate. Look on the web for advertisements like “we are recruiting a focus group, payment from xxx to xxxx dollars per hour” or “sociological surveys for cash” and send an email with your data to the indicated address. If you fit the organizers in one way or another, you will be invited. Usually a group of 8–10 people is recruited, each of whom is asked questions about a particular product. You get paid, by taking part in the discussion.

9. Manicure and hairdressing services at home: What you need: a set of tools, an equipped workplace. If you are a manicure-pedicure expert, you can receive clients at home. Of course, hairdressing requires training, but you can study how to do a manicure or a — yourself — for example, with the help of video tutorials downloaded from the Web. It is better to train on cats, that is, on girlfriends. They will advertise for you through word of mouth. The main thing in this business is to follow the rules of hygiene as carefully as possible.

10. Hand-making: What you need: a supply of good material; a workplace protected from naughty children’s hands. Use quality materials for the things you will make and do not cheat. The formula for creating hand-making that sells well is: skill + materials + perfectionism. You can solder stained-glass windows, make knitted and felted toys. Ceramics, bijouterie, painting on fabric and wood carving go well. If you own a piece of land or you have a window sill, you can grow plants in your garden or in pots. The web will help you navigate what price to ask for your product. Sales market — galleries, gift shops, online stores, thematic communities (forums) , etc.

Working from home means doing what you do best. The main thing is not to try to grab onto the first lesson that comes along: in this case, the result will most likely be far from expectations. The splendor of being a freelancer is that you can become whoever you want. And it may well be that when the time comes to go full-time, you won’t want to.