Ingredients for Mom’s Success at Work at Home
Have you ever wondered why your work-at-home business isn’t doing as well as you originally imagined it would? Have you ever wondered what it takes? After 4 years in the business as a work-at-home mom, I’d love to share the ingredients I sifted through to answer your questions.
Too often, moms want all the answers delivered at once and fall prey to expert advice. What is an expert anyway? My dictionary says skills and knowledge derived from training or experience. It does not say someone who knows everything, who will lead you to success for free and will never unintentionally sidetrack you. The truth of the matter is that there is too much information for any one person to have it all and although experience helps us make decisions related to our business, just when you think you have learned everything there is to know about a topic, things change. The same products were not sold in 1950 as they were in 1960 or will be sold today. Times change, fashions change, technology changes, therefore business changes. My websites didn’t make it to the top of Google search engines thanks to the advice of any Internet “experts”. I got to the top of the search engines by following advice from many different internet “experts”.
The #1 Ingredient to Work at Home Mom Success is to dig, dig, and dig some more.
Too often, moms think that once they have their business up and running, the orders will start pouring in, their pockets will start filling up, and everything will be smooth sailing from then on. Is not true. When I had my first beautiful website full of beautiful products, I soon realized that my website wasn’t showing up in Google search engines and I wasn’t getting orders because of it. He knew that he had to appear on the first page of the Google search engine to get customers. I researched, made changes, checked the results, and then did the same thing over and over again. Did every change I made work? No. Some? Yes. Now both of my websites are on the first page of the Google search engine. I will continue to monitor my status and make changes if necessary.
Ingredient #2 to Work at Home Mommy’s Success is trial and error, trial and error, continuous trial and error!
Too often, moms believe that they will work fewer hours with their own business than when they leave home to work. Is not true. Your own business requires more hours. Hours to learn, hours to apply what you learned, hours to provide your product or service, hours for accounting, the list goes on and on. However, there are certainly advantages to working from home. Being home with young children or home when your children come home from school, working the hours and days you prefer not your employers, not having commute time, traffic, saving money on gas, uniforms or expensive office clothes and more . Personally, I find having lunch at home with my 3-year-old so much more enjoyable than sitting in a business cafeteria with an hour-long sandwich.
The #3 Ingredient for Working at Home Mom’s Success is working, working harder, then working some more.
Too often, moms give up because they’re not an overnight success. National statistics say that it takes 3-5 years for new businesses to become profitable and most businesses go out of business before you’ve worked at them for a full year.
Ingredient #4 for working at home Mom’s success is not giving up!
Put it all together and what do we have, research, hard work, trial and error and don’t give up! I really believe that God wants us to be successful. It simply asks us to plant the seeds of our business, harvest the grain that is available for our business, prepare the flour for our business, mix the dough for our business, and bake the foundations of our business before we get to taste the bread of our business that is our success!
