10 Suitable Businesses for Housewife and Nursing Mothers are listed in this article. Hoping that you take advantage of this opportunity.
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Business Ideas for Stay at Home Mom in Nigeria:
- Multilevel Marketing
- Catering
- School Runs
- Fashion Designing
- Blogging
- Online Retail Business
- Day-Care Business
- Freelancing
- Consulting
- Agriculture
Being a housewife or nursing mother does not automatically mean that you should stop earning. With the bad economy, it is always advisable that fending for the family isn’t left for the man alone to undertake, as this can put undue pressure on him and lead to friction and financial issues in the home.
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At this age, there are a thousand and one job opportunities for even the full-time housewife and nursing mother. Here in this article, we are going to explore 10 suitable businesses for housewives and nursing mothers. We hope you will find a few that appeals to your particular situation and try them out.
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Here are 10 Suitable Businesses for Housewife and Nursing Mothers:
1. Multilevel Marketing
This is actually a legal means of making money, and you do not necessarily need to leave the comfort of your home or, in the case of a nursing mother, even employ a nanny.
Worthy of note is the fact that MLM is quite different from a Ponzi scheme, as the former has real goods that distributors sell to buyers in order to make a profit. It is a very lucrative stay-at-home business idea.
All you have to do is register with a good multilevel marketing company. For a list of some of them in Nigeria, see this list:
http://www.faveprofiles.com/2019/01/21/newly-launched-mlm-in-nigeria/
Once you are registered with a certain amount of money, you are given a set of company products based on the amount you used in registration.
The point is that you sell these products and make a profit. You also earn commission by way of referrals, where you bring in others to register with the company.
2. Catering
This is another money-making venture for mothers and full-time housewives. If you love cooking, then this business is for you. People have occasions and parties every day.
You can put your great cooking skills to use and reach out to these people for cooking contracts. If you know how to bake and do small chops, then they are better.
Search within your neighborhood, print flyers if need be, and distribute them to your neighbors. Very soon, you will start getting cooking jobs that you can just sit at home and deliver.
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3. School Runs
This is another veritable business opportunity for full-time housewives and nursing mothers. Often, some very parents might not have the time to go pick up their children back home after school.
You can start by using your own car, or if you don’t have a car, hire a tricycle and use it for the time being. If you are buoyant enough financially, you can even buy a school bus and lease it out to the school to do this same kind of business.
This serves as a good way of making residual income, as the bus is maintained and serviced by the school while it makes money for you and all you do is get weekly or monthly returns on the business.
4. Fashion Designing
You could learn fashion design and start making designs for seamstresses and tailors. You get paid for your ingenuity in designing good attractive patterns and styles.
There are numerous cloth makers within your neighborhood to whom you can outsource the sewing and earn money on your design.
You can still go the extra step and learn how to sew, thereby designing and sewing your own clothes. If you are very good, it is only a matter of time before you start seeing customers knocking on your front door.
5. Blogging
This is the most lucrative and fun business idea you can engage in even as a housewife and nursing mother. While it may take a while to get to monetize your blog and make money, if done right, the money will come eventually.
You can start your blog and specialize in any topic under the sun: from fashion to celebrity gossip, home maintenance ideas and so much more.
Once you start getting consistent traffic on your blog, there are countless ways of making money from your blog. They include Google AdSense, affiliate marketing, eBook sales, information marketing, and so much more.
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6. Online Retail Business
The internet is one big marketplace, and you do not even need your own website or blog to start making money online selling goods and other products.
All you have to do is sign up with the big online stores such as Konga or Jumia, and get them to enlist your goods on their sites. They earn a commission once they are able to sell your goods while you also make money from the comfort of your home.
7. Day-Care Business
Since you are basically staying at home and taking care of your kids, why not turn it into a business and invite other kids over? The daycare business can be both fun and challenging.
Fun in the sense that your house is always filled with running children and a beehive of action. Challenging in the sense that you have to develop the grace to handle a dozen crying babies at once. But if you have the patience, why not go for it?
All you need is a spacious environment where parents can drop off their kids while you take care of them until the parents return from work or business daily. And you get paid for your efforts.
8. Freelancing
This is the kind of job that perfectly fits housewives and even nursing mothers. If you have a skill such as writing, copywriting, graphic designing, and web designing, you can put these skills to use and search for jobs online.
All you have to do I apply to sites such as freelancing.com, Upwork, and Fiverr. You get to bid for jobs, choose your own working hours, and only get to accept jobs you know you can deliver at given times.
9. Consulting
You can make a ton of money by setting up a consulting business right from the comfort of your home. If you have many sought-after skills, either a business consultant, or public speaker, or you have some entrepreneurial nuggets you want to share with young professionals.
You can reach out to them, organize tutorials, and get paid for your efforts. I happen to know many part-time consultants working from home and offering consultancy services to young entrepreneurs.
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10. Agriculture
This is the new oil of today, although a lot of people have no idea how lucrative agriculture could be. As a housewife and nursing mother, you only have to get arable farmland within your neighborhood and start farming right away.
If you are living in a rural area, the better. You can even get involved in animal husbandry, including snail farming, beekeeping, rabbit keeping, goat rearing, and poultry farming. The list is endless. You just have to use your ingenuity and creativity.
Yes, we have been able to list out and discuss 10 suitable jobs you can undertake as a housewife or nursing mother. Do we hope you have been able to find at least one that will suit your particular situation and think of how to start it?
Good luck to you!
