Being a Work From Home Mom

When I was pregnant, I thought, "Right. Have the baby. Find a babysitter. Go back to work. Done." But I loved her so completely and so profoundly, that I really didn't want to leave her. Plus, she was really high-needs and I had spent the last year learning her cues and I felt that only I knew exactly how to comfort her. Would a babysitter really be able to do that?

So I set out to figure out a way to be a work from home mom. First I told my employer that I wouldn't be coming back, but offered to work for him from home. I asked for $30 an hour. I never heard back from him on that, so I took that as a "No". Ha ha!

So when I was trying to investigate home based business opportunities, one of my friends offered me some work doing proofreading and editing and that was great, except that it was really hard to get a lot of work, and I ended up making only about $200 a month. If I was going to make it as a work from home mom, it would have to be better than that.

Then I started thinking about the Internet and how many people make a living from it. The only problem was it was really hard to know which companies to trust. Everywhere you look, someone else is offering the latest, greatest home based business opportunities. I would estimate that I wasted about $300USD trying out different home based business opportunities that turned out to be scams. I was so frustrated! I just wanted to find a legitimate way to be a work from home mom!

One eBook I bought (business ideas for home based work) walked me through exactly how to build a one page website to sell an eBook. I wrote the eBook, then went to all the trouble to build the website, paying monthly fees for hosting, using their templates, etc, and then I never even got a single visitor to my site! So then the eBook explained how to PAY to get people to visit my site – frankly, this person was getting rich off me and I wasn’t earning a penny.

The nice thing about having your own web based business is that it can be about whatever you want it to be. Whether you are into scrapbooking, or cooking, or home organizing, or perhaps you left a job as a flight attendant and your website will offer travel tips to families traveling with children! The possibilities are endless.

If you decide to build a website as a work from home mom, you will either have to learn all about html or a wysiwyg program like Dreamweaver, or go with a company that has templates and does it for you. You will have to attract visitors to your website (otherwise you will not make any money) and there are a variety of ways of doing this. One is to write articles. Another is to make sure that you build enough content-rich pages so that you get noticed by Google and your site shows up when people search for your keywords. You could pay to get traffic, but there are other free ways of getting traffic.

Bottome line: You really can make a living as a work from home mom.

The key to my success, I think, was choosing the company carefully (I use SiteSell - you can check it out here: Site Build It, owned by a Canadian doctor, Dr. Ken Evoy - incidentally a really nice guy!) that I was going to give my business to and, ultimately, trusting them to help me learn how to build my business.

Be very careful of get-rich-quick scams. There is NO SUCH THING. Any legitimate business takes work, real hard work. There are no shortcuts, and that's all there is to it. So any legitimate business will be upfront and clearly state that this is going to be a lot of work.

Moms already know what it means to work hard, so taking the leap to work from home mom is not that difficult.

When you research the variety of website-building companies out there, make sure they offer all-in-one packages, and they make it clear what you will get for your money. Make sure there are no hidden costs or extra things you will have to pay for later. Don't pay more than $40 per month (I pay $299 per year for my program). And make sure it already includes everything you need. At the very least, ask yourself if it offers the following:

Also, what kind of customer service do they offer? Would they take a work from home mom seriously? Email them a question and see if they get back to you or not. If they don't, don't give them your money! Also, do they make it clear on their website who they are and how they can be reached? I hate those sites with no contact information. It's like they have something to hide.

I decided what I would do is this: I downloaded the SiteBuildIt Action Guide – it’s free. I read it cover to cover. Then I researched the topics I was interested in using the Site Build It Tool called SearchIt. I decided to narrow down my choices until I had found the perfect niche for me. Then I set out to write 20 pages for my as-yet-unpaid-for website. I told myself that once I had 20 pages written, it would mean that I was truly serious about this endeavor and I should go ahead and sign up for Site Build It!. So that’s what I did. And I really can make a living as a work from home mom.

The benefit of using Site Build It is that it really is all-inclusive. There are no extra fees or hidden costs. You pay upfront for one year and you get so much for that one time payment.

No matter which company you go with, make sure they offer an all-in-one deal, because you'd be surprised how much all the extras add up to. For example, you may think that $299 is too much momney to spend to start your own business. But, are you going to pay someone to submit to the search engines? Are you going to pay someone to optimize your pages so they can be found by the search engine spiders?

Site Build It costs $299USD for a year. I know, it’s a lot of money. But I had wasted so much money and gotten nowhere before trying SBI. And really, it works out to less than $30 a month, and it includes your website templates, hosting, optimization, it submits to all the directories, it does everything for you! It was been well worth the money for me. In fact, 40% of SBI owners own more than one website through SBI. In other words, they liked it so much they paid the $299 again.

You can check out a comparison of Site Build It! versus Yahoo, Microsoft and Verisign here.

If you have any questions about SBI, please email me through my Contact Me form. If you include your phone number, I will call you back. Alternatively, you can ask your question to Site Build It themselves here.

Please also feel free to click on this link to see a variety of free tools you can try before deciding.

Site Build It really is worth every penny. I am so glad I found it. It has made a difference in my life in helping me be a successful work from home mom, and I hope it can make a difference in yours too.

Sincerely,

Suzanne Doyle-Ingram


P.S. For an indepth look at Site Build It, please feel free to take a look at The SBI Complete Reference Centre. There is no obligation, just an opportunity to learn a lot!
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