Monday, January 23, 2017

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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