I receive a lot of emails from people working from home.
They’re struggling to keep focused, to keep on schedule, and to keep work and family separate. And to make money.
I’ve been there and done all those things.
I’m not a WAHM, I’m a WAH grandparent. I have three grandchildren living with me full-time, and we’ve done that for almost six years. When the children arrived, they were 1, 2, and 5. They’d been physically attacked and were in a pretty bad way. Things are better now, but we still have a long way to go.
Counselling and other professional visits are an ongoing thing in our household.
Because I’ve been through all the dramas, trauma, and issues of working at home with young kids in tow, I feel ‘qualified’ to help others in this area.
You’ve probably noticed I’ve been AWOL for a few weeks – it’s school holidays over here in Australia. The children have been home from school, and things have been rather frantic. That makes for even more frantic work time.
Because of this, I got to thinking, what are the things that hold us back as WAHM’s? (WAHM’s covering all genders and ages!)
And that got me to thinking about the large variety of things that stop us from earning as much income from home as we’d like. If you work from home and you’re a writer, VA, software creator, installer, consultant, blogger, or something else entirely, this is for you.
Over the next few months I’ll be posting information to help you monetize your WAH business.
Please leave a message to help me decide on the content that would help you.
Cheryl
Maybe we should call ourselves WAHG, or something. My daughter and I are trying to get our online business going for a lot of reasons, mainly some independence for my daughter. I have 7 grandkids, and while they don’t live under my roof, there is seldom a week that goes by that I haven’t had some of them. Four have a military dad, and I kept them for the first years of their lives.
Time and money are our biggest concerns, as we do all of the work ourselves and expand and buy materials as we can afford them.
Patricia
Hi Patricia, thanks for stopping by.
I did think of WAHG earlier, but decided no one would know what I was talking about!
I know it sounds a bit back-to-front, but have you thought of outsourcing? I will go into that in a future article, but outsourcing virtually saved my life. It certainly saved a lot of time, not to mention my sanity.
If you can’t wait for that blog post, check out this article I wrote (about outsourcing) for Suite 101:
http://freelancewriting.suite101.com/article.cfm/grow-your-freelance-business
Cheryl
p.s. Love your site – it’s gorgeous!
Thanks for sharing, I found this article, while surfing for some downloads and ran across this website, thoughtful comments and great points made.
Cheryl, you always amaze me with the things you do. I’m looking forward to reading your blog each week.
Hi Cheryl,
Great blog. Very timely considering the hectic pace of our modern life.
Regards
Margaret
Hi Cheryl, really helpful info would the be age old problem of what to charge for freelance writing (say web content, SEO) and how to find the clients who value what you're doing and appreciate the skills involved. Tall order I know. I've been freelancing for a while, and they're still issues I wrestle with.
Thanks for sharing this.
great experience, dude! thanks for this great post wow… it’s very wonderful report.