Today I have a great guest post from Ann Smarty, who shares some additional ways to earn some extra money from home.
Nine months ago I became mom of my lovely daughter. Naturally I had to stay at home - the initial plan was that I'd return to work in like 6-9 months but now I understand that I am just unable to leave her. I want to watch every minute of her growing up and thus I guess I need to stay at home longer (not sure how long though).
Anyway, staying at home doesn't mean I can't make money. I am an Internet entrepreneur and a blogger and I know a number of ways to make money online. The best part of it is that those ways are fun, that means you can make money from those ways you actually enjoy doing!
1. Make money blogging
Most of stay-at-home moms enjoy sharing their new exciting experience by maintaining a blog. This way we build online communities of mothers who help each other, share thoughts and solve some daily household issues together.
Of course, making money blogging is the huge topic that deserves a blog of its own. But in order just to show you the direction, let me just list a few basics. Staying home with little kids, we all have little time to learn something new, but here are just a couple of resources that can be enough for the solid start:
- Google Adsense (as well as other pay-per-click networks) is the simplest and the fastest way to start. Just install its scrip on the site and everything will be done automatically.
- Affiliate programs. When I was only starting to make money with affiliate programs.
2. Start Couponing
Most of us, busy moms, are coupon and bargain pros as we make our best to save each cent. But do you know that you can actually make money with bargain hunting?
I recently discovered a cool site called Buxr.com that offers daily and monthly prices to the most active and useful members.
This basically works as follows:
- You come across a good deal;
- You go to the site and submit it there (you'll need to register for that);
- Other members comment and vote for your deal;
- If your deal is well-received and gets most votes, you earn $10!
- You can thus earn $10 a day.
There are also monthly contests: if you are active enough, you can win without ever submitting a deal.
Just vote up good deals and vote down bad deals. At the end of the day we will announce the winners and losers. If your picks match ours you win points good towards our monthly grand prize!
In other words, you earn points (and money) for making the site better!
3. Make Money Reviewing Products
Making money with reviews has double benefit: cash and the product itself you are reviewing. The only downside here is the huge number of scammers that will make you work and will never pay. To protect yourself from them, browse Scam.com forum that stores plenty of up-to-date discussions on newest scams.
Here are a few legit sites that allow you to earn money by reviewing products:
- GangsterGreed pays money on demand once you have earned more than $10;
- Cash Crate - also check their Contests page for more fun;
- Treasure Trooper pays monthly with $20 payout threshold.
Do you make money while staying at home with your lovely kids? Why not share your experience?
The guest post is by Ann Smarty, a blogger, social media enthusiast and online entrepreneur. You may want to follow Ann on Twitter.
Post images by Annie Mole, silverfox09 and topgold
Gina
I started out with couponing, which turned into doing deals and such, then sharing them with friends and family. That turned into blogging, and now between all of those things, I'm making more than $500/month with my little ones still crawling all over me. It really is amazing what you can do from home, in between the moments of mothering. I know moms who do online surveys, others who do freelance writing, there are so many ways to use your time and talents.
Paula@Organizing Tips 4 Moms
Awesome! What a great way to birng in extra $$ while staying home with the kids. I feel blessed to be able to be a WAHM!
The Activity Mom
Thanks for the info and other resources. I'm going to check them out!
Jessica
Great Post, Thank you for the tips!! I just recently started a blog and am so excited about it 🙂
Daisy
I love this post! I will admit to anyone...I am not a veteran blogger.."YET"! I love to learn and take it all in.
This was a great post for resources and confirmation. Thanks goes to Corrie and your guest writer today, Ann Smarty.
Ann Smarty
Thanks for publishing it and all the comments. It was my pleasure guest blogging here!
Corrie @ "Cents"able Momma
Thanks for the article...I learned a lot of new sites!
MAKE A LOT OF MONEY
I have a blog and I have installed Google adsense to it and even included some affiliate clickable buttons on it, but to no avail, I cant make money from it. Am I missing something here?
Corrie @ "Cents"able Momma
It takes time to build up your blog and your readership before you start really making any money from Google Adsense. It looks like you just started your blog a couple of months ago...so you need to keep writing, try to market your blog as much as you can, and be patient.
Also, is there a way to close the popup to subscribe when you enter your blog? I wasn't able to find it, so I really couldn't look around too much.
I hope that helps a little bit. Feel free to leave comments or send me an e-mail if you have any additional questions.
ways to earn extra money
Interesting post! There are many ways on how to earn some money. And it would really be great if you are having fun while earning money. You will never feel the stress of work if you are having fun while doing it.