5 Ways to earn money by working from home

All the below ideas are for stay-at-home moms and dads who wants to productively kill their time and make some money while giving enough time to their little ones.

When you are trying to make ends meet with just one person’s income and limited resources, it does get difficult to manage and build savings. However, if you are a stay-at-home mom or dad, there are many options available through which you can earn some money without sacrificing time with the kids. Below is the list of 10 different ideas or opportunities that can be considered to make extra cash for contributing in family budget when your children are not seeking your attention, or at school or in the playground.

You can pick and choose from the below list of options of work depending upon your strengths, experience and interest. Sooner or later you will start to pocket hundreds of dollars. And, who knows the figure may even reach up to thousands of dollars as you start to do it regularly and more efficiently.

1) Take online surveys & earn for giving opinions

Taking surveys online is a great way to earn money conveniently. Different online outfits that pay people to take surveys include SurveyClub, Global Test Market and Swagbucks. There is no cost to sign up with them and just by investing a couple of hours you can earn a decent amount. Also, Harris Poll Online, for example, provide points for the completion of online surveys, which the user can accumulate and redeem them for gifts on retailer stores or websites like Amazon and Starbucks.

2) Evaluate Websites

If you have a micro-phone, internet connection and a little sensibility about user friendliness or navigation of the website then this would be a good option for you to make money. All you need to do is, sign up with UserTesting and evaluate Web sites. This can let you earn money in short amount of time, like $10 for about 20 minutes of work. You need to fill out a one-page demographic profile, and you will start receiving work if your profile matches that of the target audiences of the website that needs to be tested. After this, you just need to use UserTesting’s screen recorder, which you will need to download on your computer system, so that you can record your comments verbally and the on-screen movements as you click / navigate through the website. There are many site owners who usually look for such feedback to map the user friendliness of their website and to check whether the website is confusing for people to navigate or not.

3) Run virtual errands.

If you have a computer with Internet connection, possess good communication skills and are good at searching the Web, then you can become a virtual personal assistant with Fancy Hands. They are always on the lookout for assistants, who set their own hours, to help its users tackle tasks such as making calls to service providers, finding the best prices for services/products and scheduling appointments. You get paid per task wise, somewhere between $3 and $7.

4) Be a Tutor Online. If you excelled in a particular academic subject matter and can spare a couple of hours during the week while the kid is taking a nap or at a dance class, share your knowledge with students who are struggling. Try to find students, those are looking to improve their grades on your own through your kids’ schools – check a site such as Craigslist.org to check hourly rates in your area – or sign up with an online tutoring company, such as Tutor.com. You must be available to tutor website at least five hours a week and have a college degree to tutor certain subjects for Tutor.com. It is done virtually from home, all you need to have is a computer. Based on which subject you are teaching, Tutor.com pay on an hourly basis.

5) Be a blogger. Share your experiences.

If you haven’t utilized your free time between those daily household chores, like cleaning, changing diapers, washing clothes, then give a shot to blogging. It is worth considering as a potential revenue stream for housewives or househusbands. You can write anything you are passionate about like parenting issues, food, health, travel topics etc. The more original, interesting and informative you are the more you will gain from this activity as the traffic on your blog will be more which indicates that more people are following it.

You can create your blog using a free platform from WordPress.org, but you’ll need to pay a small amount – like $4 per month to host the blog. Try GoDaddy.com, to purchase a domain name for your site, space for database storage, email addresses, and other Web hosting services. To start making money from your blog, you can sign up for free on Google AdSense service to let advertisers post their ads on your site. The amount you get is calculated by the number of impressions on the ad, which means the number of people who have seen the ad on your website.

You can also try affiliate marketing, through which you can earn a commission (usually not more than 10%) whenever someone clicks on an ad on your site or purchases a product by clicking on the advertiser’s ad on your website. The Amazon Associates affiliate program allows you to put advertisements of the retailer’s products on your site, or you can also try affiliate networks such as CJ Affiliate or ShareASale that work with thousands of companies who wish to advertise their products and services. Depending on how much time you invest in your blog and how many people visit it, you could be successfully making a few hundred dollars each month within a year.