| It can be difficult to find work at home options that are | | | | 20 hours a week, making this a good work at home |
| both legitimate and family friendly. As a work at home | | | | option that offers work/life balance. |
| parent you want to find a balance between work and | | | | 3. eBay: Selling merchandise online is one of the best |
| family. | | | | ideas to work at home. You can make a lot of money |
| Most likely you are working at home so you can | | | | while still having the benefits of working from home. |
| spend more time with your family, so the last thing you | | | | eBay is a great platform to sell on if you do not want |
| want are jobs that take you away from them too | | | | to manage a website. eBay sellers do need to make |
| often. Here are some work at home options for busy | | | | sure they work on a regular basis. However, many |
| stay at home parents. | | | | people who sell on eBay manage to work 4 hours a |
| 1. Surveys: Doing free or paid surveys can be a | | | | day. |
| greatwork at home option. It doesn't take too much | | | | 4. Affiliate marketing: When it comes to easy lucrative |
| time out of your day and they can be interesting and | | | | options, affiliate marketing is at the top of the list. In |
| fun. In order to make this a serious work at home job, | | | | case you are unfamiliar, affiliate marketers are people |
| rather than just a fun pass time, you would need to | | | | who sell other peoples products and services and then |
| sign up at several survey companies. The average | | | | earn a commission. |
| survey taker works about 3 hours a day. This gives | | | | Because they don't have to concern themselves with |
| you plenty of time to get the kids ready for soccer | | | | creating the product, customer service, or shipping and |
| practice. | | | | handling, affiliate marketers have more time than those |
| 2. Customer service: More companies are looking to | | | | who own and operate web stores. You do need to |
| hire stay at home parents to provide customer care, | | | | spend quite a bit of time sending traffic to your affiliate |
| especially online companies. As a work at home | | | | program and learning new marketing techniques, but |
| customer care agent, you get all the benefits of | | | | the average affiliate marketer works around 6 hours. |
| working from home (no commute, no child care costs | | | | When choosing a work at home option, consider what |
| etc), as well as many of the benefits of doing | | | | you like to do. If you don't like selling then steer away |
| customer care. The pay varies but work at home | | | | from those types of work at home models. Also |
| agents make somewhere around $8-$15 an hour. The | | | | consider what works best for your family. All the |
| schedule is flexible for majority of companies and on | | | | options above offer you more time to spend with your |
| average work at home customer service reps work | | | | family, giving you a better work/life balance. |