Are you a woman, nursing mother, or stay-at-home mom in America looking for a home business idea to start online and over $5,000 monthly?
This guide is for you because I have done research and come up with the best 5 home business ideas you can start online and make a living while you take care of your family.
1. Freelancing Business
Freelancing is the home business idea I recommend most to women. This is because it doesn’t require investment and capital.
All you need is a computer, internet connection, a skill that is high in demand, and a marketplace where you offer services to clients and get paid.
There are many freelancing services you can offer from home and make money. The most lucrative are virtual assistant, copywriting, and graphics design. These services are in high demand on Fiverr which is the most popular freelancing platform. Signing up and creating an account on Fiverr is free. Your profile will pop up on search results when clients search on Fiverr for the service you offer.
I recommend you start a copywriting business because many businesses especially in the United States pay up to $1500 to have copywriters write sales and marketing copy of just 1500 words. This is a job you can do within 4 days. Let’s assume you have 4 clients that pay you $1500 to do copywriting for them monthly, which is $6000 per month. Imagine making such an amount with just your computer, internet connection, and your copywriting skills.
Shania Raja and Carrie French are 2 top-rated professional copywriters who individually make over $10,000 every month doing copywriting for businesses. After recording huge success in this, they decided to launch a program – Become A Professional Copywriter – where they teach beginners how to become experts in copywriting and make a living from it.
2. Start A Blogging Business
Blogging is a lucrative business idea for anyone who wants to build a side hustle for themselves. I always recommend it because it is what I do to make a living.
I started blogging in 2019 when I was in my final year in university and since then, I have been making a living from it. Many people say that blogging is hard, agreed, but it’s one of the part-time jobs you can do as a woman and make a steady income.
For example, I have made over $3000 promoting a single software via affiliate marketing.
I make money from ads and also offer SEO services to clients – all thanks to this blog you are reading now.
You don’t need huge money to start a blog. With $2.50/month you can host your blog on Hostinger and also get a free domain. That’s all you will spend. There are free themes you can use to design your blog.
Next is to start publishing blog posts.
As a beginner, you may find it hard to write and publish blog posts.
Maddie Cohen, a professional blog post writer who writes for Fortune 500 companies has a course where she teaches you how to write a high-quality blog post and publish it on your blog. A lot of beginner bloggers have benefitted from her years of experience through this course and become experts in writing blog posts.
You can also consider AI writing tools like Jasper AI which you can use to write any type of content. Be it a blog post, social media post, email copy, or even a book. I have been using Jasper AI to boost my content production since 2021 when it was launched and the result has been amazing.
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3. Starting A Faceless YouTube Channel
Faceless YouTube channel is the new cool in making money from YouTube. I started one in early 2023 and got it monetized within 3 months.
The interesting thing about a faceless YouTube channel is that you don’t show your face in your videos.
Also, you won’t need to invest in YouTube equipment like a camera and microphone which are expensive on Amazon.
In fact, most of the tools you need to start a faceless YouTube channel are free.
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Let me tell you how I do it.
I identified a niche on YouTube that is popular – History and Documentary. Many people, especially older people, want to learn about past events like who discovered America, the greatest Kings of the 15th century, and how civilization started. These are videos I have covered on my channel, and they got thousands of views.
I created a YouTube channel which is FREE.
Then I used Jasper AI, which is the best AI writing tool to generate about 2000 words of high-quality content on any topic related to history.
Edited it to add a human angle and converted it to audio voice using Murf AI – a top-rated AI voice generator that generates voice that sounds like a human. The interesting thing is that you can even clone your voice using Murf AI and use it to generate a unique voice.
After this, I jumped on Fiverr to hire a YouTube video editor who would edit the video. I will submit the voice Murf AI generated from the content Jasper wrote to Fiverr video editor.
When editing my video, they will add video clips, images, illustrations, and other visuals that make my video interesting when my audience watch it.
It usually takes about 4 days for them to deliver. When the video is ready, I create a thumbnail using Canva, upload the video, add a video title, description, tags, end screen, and publish.
Following the above guide, you can always produce high-quality faceless YouTube videos for your channel. Once your channel hits 4000 watch time and 1000 subscribers, you can apply for monetization. If everything looks good, YouTube will monetize it within 48 hours, and you will begin to make money from the YouTube partnership program. You can also monetize your YouTube channel via affiliate programs, digital products, and sponsorship from brands.
4. Start Selling Online
Selling online is a lucrative business idea you can run from home as a woman and make money. A lot of people in America, UK, and Canada prefer buying online for convenience purposes. This is why ecommerce giants like Amazon, eBay, and Aliexpress record sales in billions of dollars every month. You can start your own Amazon in a small way using your computer and internet from home.
For example, you can create an account on Etsy as a seller, upload your physical or digital products for people to buy. There are a lot of women killing it on Etsy by just selling products they make themselves from home.
It can be paper season cards or jewelry made with beads.
Selling on Etsy is free. The platform only takes a percentage from every sale you make. And you can withdraw your money through PayPal, Stripe, or directly into your bank account.
Dekota Vaugh Bacon sells handmade personalized necklaces and rings on her Etsy store known as One27Designs. She started this store in 2012 when nobody thought that selling online could be a lucrative business a woman could do from home. Now she makes over $100,000 annually from her store.
Also, Pauline Cabrera, sells digital products – WordPress theme and marketing kits to people on Etsy on her shop – TwelveSkip. Website owners who want simple and appealing WordPress themes come to her shop to look for them. She has been on Etsy for over 5 years and makes $10,000 monthly from home.
Etsy isn’t the only platform where you can launch your online store. There is also Launch Cart which is beginner-friendly and has advanced features for running a print-on-demand store and also promoting it on TikTok and Instagram.
5. Sell E-Books on Amazon Kindle
E-books are selling like crazy on Amazon Kindle and creators cash out big time doing this. Before now, people complained that creating an e-book was hard.
But AI writing tools have made it easier. With Jasper AI, you can write an e-book of 5000 words, use Amazon Kindle tools to convert it to an e-book, upload it, and make sales when people buy.
Even if you don’t want to use AI writing tools, you can leverage your experience and write an e-book that will be worth the money your audience spent on it.
Let’s assume you are a mother and you have successfully raised children. You can write an e-book for upcoming mothers on how to raise their children to have morals. And if you have a successful marriage, you can also write and publish an e-book on Amazon Kindle on how to have a successful marriage.
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Imagine having 5 valuable e-books on Amazon Kindle that you sell for $20 each. And you make 10 sales on each of the 5 every month. That’s $1000 per month for a business you run from your home with just your computer and internet while you take care of your children and husband.
Final thoughts
As a woman, having a business you run from home is a plus. You take care of your children, husband, and self and still make money with your computer and internet connection. You save yourself the stress of commuting to work and doing 9-5 work that doesn’t give you time. I have shown you the 5 best business ideas you can start from home and make a living from. Starting from freelancing business to selling e-books on Amazon. It’s up to you to digest them and decide on the one that best suits you.
