Are you a stay-at-home mom looking to work from the comfort of your home? If so, there are tons of awesome legitimate stay-at-home jobs for moms who want to take their skills and create their own 
home business.
Moms are some of the most creative people in the world and there is great demand for many of the skills that moms utilize on a daily basis.
Looking for some cool ideas of how to get started? Check out our list of “say-at-home mom jobs” to get started with your very own home business today.
Top 10 Stay-At-Home Mom Jobs
Sell on eBay
If you have extra clothes, nik-naks, or products in your home that you don’t want or use anymore, then clear out the clutter and make money by using eBay’s auction style platform. You can sell your old stuff on eBay much easier and make more money than selling it at a garage sell.
Plus the cool thing about online platforms like eBay is that there is no actual selling for you to do. eBay does all the selling. You just snap some nice photos of whatever you want to get ride of and put up a little description of your item and bomb, eBay does the rest..
Let the millions of daily eBay shoppers buy your old stuff. It’s incredible how many people buy online
and you’d be surprised at what people actually buy.
Many eBay sellers are also excellent bargain shoppers. They go to places like Home Depot or Walmart and buy heavily discounted items after the holidays or whenever they hear of big sales events.
They then turn around and sell those products on eBay for a profit.
Read our handy eBay sellers guide to learn how to sell on eBay with ease or begin selling on eBay right now.
Sell Products on Amazon
Just like eBay, Amazon offers a huge audience to sell your stuff. But Amazon is better for selling new products. I would recommend selling used products on eBay and new products on Amazon. From my experience, you’ll be able to sell the same product for a greater profit on Amazon.
Where to find new products. Well, this can be the tricky part, but you can find discounted products from stores that are going out of business, online warehouses or after holiday sale discounts like mentioned above. You could contact local merchants and offer to sell their products on Amazon as well.
Sell Your Crafts on Etsy
If you can make your own crafts or clothes, then Etsy.com is the selling platform for you. Etsy is growing in popularity and people are really attracted to the idea of buying handmade products.
On Etsy, you can create a online store using their selling platform and create a theme to your store.
You’ll have millions of buyers who are already pre-qualified as buyers of handcraft goods.
Create a Gift Basket Company
Gift baskets are very popular these days. They’re used in real estate transactions and with
local businesses all the time. Putting up a local website to market your gift basket business is extremely easy in today’s high tech world and will increase your business visibility and profits.
If you have a knack for putting together cute baskets with little presents and delicious edibles, you can make your baskets from home and sell them for double the profit.
Once you have a few basket designs (with are your personally selected products put together), you can buy in bulk and drop your product cost drastically.
Many small local gift basket entrepreneurs report making between $25,000 to $50,000 per year from this stay-at-home business.
Host a Foreign Exchange Student
If you have an extra room in your home and you live close to a local college or high school, you could have a great way to make some extra cash. Just contact the college or high school and see if they have foreign exchange programs.
Most schools do have exchange programs and offer a decent monthly stipend for the host family.
You would have to provide a few meals a day, a nice home environment, and the basic necessities for a student (a private room, a desk, good lighting, and an internet connection), and you’d be good to go.
Professional Closet/Home Organizer
If you’re like my mom who has an amazing ability to organize and arrange bedrooms and closets, you could have yourself a nice little niche business.
Now this job would take you out of your home at times. But you could start your business and manage it from your computer and cell phone.
You would just need to set up a local website, offer some examples of before and after photos of rooms or closets you’ve organized, and you could pick up local clients.
You’d also want to spread the word of your business through local organizations and market yourself to industries like real estate professionals.
Come to think about it, you could offer pre-made closet and garage organizers on your website and turn your business global by drop-shipping or affiliate marketing those products you recommend and use. No inventory and just commissions. Not a bad move.
Run Your Own Local Day Care
If you love spending time with children and enjoy teaching them or playing with them, you could pick and choose your clients at will. Many working parents complain that it’s difficult to find a good day care center.
You could find out how much local care centers charge for their service, then offer a more personalized service and charge the same or a bit more.
Tutor Student or Teach an Instrument
If you have been a teacher or excel in specific subjects, you could tutor local students. Same thing goes for playing an instrument. You could set your hourly rate and put the word out about your services to local schools, churches, or other organizations you belong to and start making some extra cash.
You could also put up a local website advertising the subjects or instruments you teach. Thus keeping you as busy as you’d like to be.
Make Lunches and Sell Them at Local Businesses
Whenever I worked at skilled nursing homes as an Occupational Therapist, I would find that many of the nursing homes would allow friends of co-workers to sell their lunch specialties to the employees.
In my case, the lady would come by each day with a basket of handmade burritos. Delicious fat burritos for $4.00. She’d sell out in less than a half hour. Man I miss her burritos.
You would just have to find a local business that would allow you to sell whatever specialty lunch item you wanted to make.
Tip: Offer a free lunch to the manager as you are making your sales pitch.
Create Your Own Niche Blog
Now if you have a niche skill or passion, you can easily make a blog or website based on your niche and spend your spare time developing your site. As your site develops, you can then begin to list affiliate products from places like Amazon, eBay, or Etsy that relate to your niche.
One lady I know took her love of painting and created a neat blog teaching her painting techniques and giving free classes online. Then she monetized the blog by recommending products that she uses when she’s creating her artwork and have art supply ads on her website.
Within a few months she started seeing sales of $2,000/mo. A few months later as her traffic increased, her sales jumped up close to $4,000 dollars.
I know another lady who had problems finding earrings that didn’t irritate her skin.
She worked with a manufacturer to develop a specialty earring that she designed that doesn’t irritate her earlobes.
She then put up her earring niche website and began selling her jewelry little by little. Within 5 years she built her business up to making $130,000/year.
Creating a Local Web Presence
Not every stay-at-home job needs a website or blog, but almost every job listed above would greatly benefit from have a local web presence. And what’s even better is that it’s easy and fun and it doesn’t take that much time to put up a nice website to attract your local market.
Niche websites that are marketed to a specific location, i.e. your town, your neighborhood, or your city are super easy to get ranked on the first page of any major search engine.
When creating a website name that is based on your business and location as well as writing articles featuring your niche or service, you can rank on page one of Google without any problem.
And What’s Even Better Is…
You can get started building your very own website for free. Using an online university called Wealthy Affiliate, you can put up a free website, get free hosting, and they will provide you training so that you can learn how to set up and manage your website. How nice is that?
I used Wealthy Affiliate to put up a website for a local guest house that I have and it took me less than a week to set up.
Because my site’s name is specific to a city and the niche is “guest home” and my keywords are “rooms to rent”, whenever someone searches “rooms to rent and the name of the city” or “guest home and the city name”, my site shows up on the first page of Google.
Since putting up my site, my guest home has gone from 60% occupancy to 94% occupancy. That’s a difference in 600 dollars per month, not bad.
You can read my in depth review about the Wealthy Affiliate University and see how they help you get started with your very own website.
Thanks for reading and best of luck to all of you wonderfully talented stay-at-home-moms.
Take care,
Todd