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Making money from home?? HELP!!

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  • 25-01-2012 1:05pm
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    melly101
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭


    Hi,

    I'm a stay at home mum and I'm desperately looking for ways to make a few quid from home... has any body any ideas/advice on what jobs you can do from home?

    Also thinking of making and selling items on Adverts.ie/Gumtree/Ebay etc, I've been racking my brain but cant come up with ideas for what people could want/need.

    As you can see I'm struggling so any advice would be much appreciated!

    Thanks :)


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    YouBuyLocal
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭YouBuyLocal


    melly101 wrote: »
    Hi,

    I'm a stay at home mum and I'm desperately looking for ways to make a few quid from home... has any body any ideas/advice on what jobs you can do from home?

    Also thinking of making and selling items on Adverts.ie/Gumtree/Ebay etc, I've been racking my brain but cant come up with ideas for what people could want/need.

    As you can see I'm struggling so any advice would be much appreciated!

    Thanks :)

    If you're making and selling things online forget about the websites mentioned. Use etsy.com, zibbet.com, artfire.com or fondelifair.com.

    Prices vary but are in or around 3-10% of your sales or sometimes 20 squids a month.

    Then you have shopify.com, which is 20euro per month and an extra 50c each for cool features Luke integrating into facebook. Facebook business page is your friend and there are ways if doing simple landing pages to link to cool features like a video or your shop or flickr, etc.

    Pm me if you need any other bits and bobs of advice.


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    Pixie Chief
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭Pixie Chief


    I think that it is very difficult to find a niche that works for you but you really need to think about your skill set. After almost 16 years of trying a lot of things, I finally have a working idea that is just now starting to get on it's feet - largely because I kept thinking about stuff I could do and what people seemed to want instead of thinking about what I was good at and building something round that. Hard to suggest things without knowing what you are interested in and are good at?


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    TonyStark
    Registered Users Posts: 851 ✭✭✭TonyStark


    melly101 wrote: »
    Hi,

    I'm a stay at home mum and I'm desperately looking for ways to make a few quid from home... has any body any ideas/advice on what jobs you can do from home?

    Also thinking of making and selling items on Adverts.ie/Gumtree/Ebay etc, I've been racking my brain but cant come up with ideas for what people could want/need.

    As you can see I'm struggling so any advice would be much appreciated!

    Thanks :)


    Why not mind children after school there are always folk looking for their kids to be taken after school etc.


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    melly101
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭melly101


    Thanks a mill for advice guys, yea have notices up looking for Childminding/Babysitting, cleaning jobs etc.... every little helps! Hopefully something comes up soon! Great to hear you have your idea up and running PixieChief..... Think I'll sit down with pen and paper and start putting every idea that comes into my head down and hopefully I'll get some inspiration!! :)


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    Chet Zar
    Registered Users Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Chet Zar


    Hey OP,

    Someone asked the same thing only a while back!

    Some useful tips here for you.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75297953


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    YouBuyLocal
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭YouBuyLocal


    minders.ie is run by a friend of mine, might be useful


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    Herbalist
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭Herbalist


    One idea would be to start by listing your skills (you probably have more than you realise!) and then thinking about what you could offer from home around these services.

    If you are artistic and can make things then etsy.com or ebay might be worth exploring.

    Child minding or pet minding are two ideas that spring to mind that you could do from home. From speaking to a friend with experience in the pet minding and grooming business there seems to still be demand in that area.

    Have you ever done book keeping or payroll? This is something that can often be done from home for companies.


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    melly101
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭melly101


    Chet Zar wrote: »
    Hey OP,

    Someone asked the same thing only a while back!

    Some useful tips here for you.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75297953

    That post was really helpful... thanks so much for sharing your advice with everyone!! I think its great that you are willing to share your ideas with everyone... I am definitly going to look into ebooks... did journalism in college donkeys years ago so hoping to get the creative juices flowing!!

    Cheers:)


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    melly101
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭melly101


    YouBuyLocal wrote: »
    minders.ie is run by a friend of mine, might be useful

    Have just signed up for Minders.ie so fingers crossed! Thanks a mill for that.....:)


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