How to Actually Start Your Picked Business Idea As A Stay At Home Mom.
How To Start A Business Idea For Stay At Home Moms.
Business Ideas For Stay At Home Moms. If you’re like many stay at home moms, it means you are probably looking for means of earning while you are at home. And I tell you, the best business for you as a stay at home mom, is a home based business.
You are probably wondering why I’m suggesting a home based business. As a stay at home, you really don’t need a business that’s stressing or that you cannot run from the comfort of your home.
I believe you’ve read the 15 business ideas for stay at home moms post already and picked one, good. That’s the easy part, honestly. The part that trips most stay at home moms up isn’t choosing between freelance writing and virtual assistant work. It’s the week after, when the idea is sitting in a notes app and nothing has actually happened yet.
I want to walk you through what that first week should look like, using freelance writing and virtual assistant work as the two examples, since they’re the two I get asked about the most.
How To Start The Business Idea You’ve Picked
The good news is that, in todays digital world it’s easier than ever for moms to start flexible, low cost businesses from home. If you’re looking for realistic and profitable business ideas that fit around family life, that won’t affect family, here are some smart options to consider.
Day 1-2: Pick one skill, not five.
If you’re going the freelance writing route, don’t try to be a “content writer, copywriter, and ghostwriter” on day one. Pick the narrowest version of the skill you already have. If you’ve ever written a decent email at your old job, you can write short product descriptions. That’s a real, sellable skill, and it’s small enough to actually get good at fast. The mistakes many moms makes, is thinking they can do all at once. Look at the best business ideas you can start.
Day 3: Set up one place to be found.
You don’t need a website yet. You need one profile. Upwork, Fiverr, or even a LinkedIn post saying what you do, with three lines that say what you offer and who it’s for. “I write clear, simple product descriptions for small online stores” beats “I am a passionate writer” every time.
Day 4-5: Do the work before you have a client.
This is the part almost everyone skips. Write two or three sample pieces on speculation. Pick a real small business (can be a local bakery or a friend’s Etsy shop) and what do you do? You write for them unpaid, just to have something to show. Virtual assistants can do the same thing: build a sample inbox management workflow or a mock content calendar. Having proof beats having a resume.
If you have been to Fiverr or Upwork like me, you’ll agree with me that having past works, jobs or samples that show what you have done will always beat a resume that shows what you can do.
Day 6-7: Send five messages.
I have heard a lot of people say that sending too many messages to a client is not good, that it tells them or shows how desperate you are in looking for that particular work. However, sending a lot of messages is not good. Still, you need to send. Now, not fifty, not 100. Of course, those show how desperate you are. Even sometimes, it’s tagged as spamming. But five real, yes, five real specific messages to five people or businesses who might need what you do, each one mentioning something specific about them. Five thoughtful pitches will outperform fifty generic ones every time.
Conclusion:
The honest truth is none of this is complicated. It’s just a lot of small, unglamorous steps that people quit halfway through because the first client doesn’t show up by day three. Give it the full week, then the week after that. Momentum in a home business builds from doing the boring next step, not from finding the perfect idea. You can also read Things I did before I started my online business
