6 Business Ideas for Stay-at-Home Mothers
There are many stay-at-home mothers out there who probably wish they could be useful besides keeping the home. Who ever said you can't become financially independent from your kitchen slab or dining table? The good thing is you don't need all the technologies to scale these businesses.
1. Home Gardening Business
Herb and vegetable farms are one of the fastest-growing industries. Medicinal herbs, herbal teas, and vegetables for cooking – pumpkin, tomatoes, pepper, cabbage, lettuce are just the tip of the iceberg. You should have a solid working knowledge of growing herbs and vegetables.
You could dive into gardening
teaching as another creative medium to make money from your knowledge. Offer to
take gardening seminars in your backyard, community women meeting, church and similar
gathering. Offer a class each month on a different aspect of gardening, including
setting up flower bed, watering, shading etc.
Tip: Through gardening, you can branch off to gardening consultancy and management where you help other people setup their home gardening and while also selling your seedlings and products.
2. Gift Basket-Making Business
Gift basket can be measured and designed to meet the needs of everyone. From baby packs to corporate hampers, birthdays, holidays, picnics the demands for gift basket could roll in from every corner.
You must possess a flair for creative
designs with good imagination and idea of sellable varieties of tangible items
to be tucked inside the gift basket and be put up for sale. Packaging that
appears very attractive and handy sell most in gift basket business. You can
start by throwing in a handful of baby items, knot a bow around it and sell it
off to new mothers. You sure know where to find them right?
Tips: Market your gift baskets by taking photos of them. Prepare a brochure listing the contents of each basket and its price. You can sell your baskets in schools, to corporate offices, through phone order and in local shops.
3. Knitting
In today’s tech world, knitting is making a huge comeback to the wardrobe. Beyond the regular apparel if you can knit mitten, hats, scarves, socks and more then you are probably on your way to financial independence from from kitchen table.
You would need to have a good knowledge of
fashion trend by first following the season. In raining winter season, knit up
head warmer, muffler, leg warmer, hand glove, hoodie, and cardigan. Add some unique
art design and inscriptions and market them off in schools and local shop.
Tip: Leverage on referrals to get the words out. You can give free products to certain influencial people in the community and ask them to wear it. Then go back and watch demand pouring in.
4. Baking
Can people
ever stop eating? No! the good thing is anyone in the fod business would seldom
ever run out of patronage. Cake. Cookies, casserole with a healthy recipe would
sell out anytime.
You must
understand that most people trying hard to run away from food with high
calories and sugar, therefore with a good recipe that gives enough attention to
human nutritional values would go a long way in giving your cakes and all a
good reputation.
Tips: Checkout the schools and offices around and make a proposal to supply them at a discount.
5. Soap Making
A regular detergent or bar soap may cost ₦5 to make and can be sold from ₦30 to ₦50 and there is a sprouting market for the basic all-natural soap. With the addition of fragrance, special herbs and nice colour varieties you can make a huge cash inflow and even a brand right from your kitchen slab.
Tip: Packaging is everything
6. Babysitting
If you have so much times sitting at
home home or looking after you little child, you could ask other neighbours to
bring in their kids while they are off to work. A lot of people could be
skeptical about leaving their kids with someone who’s not operating a licenced
pre-school institution. Therefore you should be able to first build trust with
your prospective client.
Tips: With a little trust and clean environment you are good to go.
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