| If you are a mum wanting to work at home, but | | | | CONSIDER THIS SELECTION |
| just cannot come up with any ideas, I will walk | | | | Sewing, cooking and gardening. These are |
| you through some thoughts, and direct you along | | | | activities that a lot of women know something |
| the lines of finding out how you can make money | | | | about. I know I am generalising, but I have to |
| working at home. | | | | start somewhere. |
| I have worked at home for a long time now. I | | | | Sewing has a host of possibilities. You can make |
| have tried many things, and most of them have | | | | clothes, linen, practical items, school items, and so |
| worked to an extent. | | | | many more. So let's take a look at clothes. This is |
| What I didn't understand initially, was the | | | | a niche that is always popular. Break this niche |
| important role that marketing plays in being | | | | down even further into baby/toddler's clothes. |
| successful. Marketing covers anything from | | | | From there you can break this down again to, |
| advertising, packaging, product display, after sale | | | | toddlers dresses, and pant sets. |
| service, replacement policy, and numerous other | | | | You can see that by taking an idea and keep on |
| things that people often do not connect as | | | | breaking it down, you find a niche that is specific |
| coming under the umbrella of marketing. | | | | for what you can do. The smaller the niche, the |
| Enough said, that is a whole other area that needs | | | | better you will be come at it, and the more |
| to be researched. At least you realise that it is | | | | popular you will be. |
| important to the success of your business. | | | | With cooking, you may decide to specialise in |
| Let's look at how a creative person can make | | | | baking, and from their you can decide on cookies, |
| money whilst working at home and being a mom. | | | | loaves, and cakes. Or, you may want to decide |
| The other day I thought, 'how can I help moms | | | | on another niche, like chutneys. |
| work at home'. I have come up with ideas to help | | | | Gardening also has a huge range of niches you |
| you look at some possibilities. To go into really | | | | could choose from. You could specialise in herbs, |
| fine detail here, would be too much, but I have | | | | cacti, flowers, pot plants, tropical plants, palms, or |
| aimed to get you thinking about what you could | | | | really anything you wish. With plants you can get |
| do. | | | | into growing seeds, propagating or growing |
| When my children were small I was lucky enough | | | | cuttings. The range is almost endless. |
| to live in a house on the property where our | | | | You can see, by taking an idea, and working on it, |
| business was situated. To this day I shudder to | | | | you can come up with something that you feel |
| think that I may have had to leave them in day | | | | you would be successful at. When you think you |
| care so that I could go out to work. Because of | | | | have found your niche, check out the market and |
| that experience, I have a passion to help women | | | | see that there are people wanting to buy such a |
| find something that they like, and at which they | | | | product. Work out where you would sell it, and |
| can make some money working at home. | | | | give thought as to how you would go about it. |
| To come up with these ideas I had to analyse | | | | You could be working at home, and making a nice |
| various parts of our life, and think about how a | | | | little income from any of the ideas we have |
| person can make money from them. I have | | | | mentioned, but do remember that all businesses |
| actually never really looked at it from this point of | | | | need marketing. |
| view before. | | | | |