At Home Business Ideas For Women [Stay Home Men Too]

Women (& stay home men) sometimes have the toughest deal. If we look at stay home moms (or dads), for example, research shows they have a workload the equivalent of two and a half jobs! As the stay home moms/dad or even empty nesters, often experience frustration at no longer being involved in the business world (ex-business people), and we can feel guilty as we are not generating an income. Certainly, when it comes to special occasions, we would love to have the cash available and go all out to spoil our loved ones.  The excitement of being able to treat others without asking for the money, the thrill of contributing financially to the family holiday, or even surprising the family with a trip away! What about the hobbies and sports and camps for the kids or grandkids even? Yeah, it would make a difference to everyone if they didn’t have to think twice and/or tighten their belt to provide for their loved ones. I am sure you can relate. That is the reason for my research and this article. Let’s have a look At Home Business Ideas for Women and Stay Home Men Too.

1.  Affiliate Marketing

What is Affiliate Marketing First Of All?

In a nutshell, Affiliate Marketing is helping a buyer find and purchase a product, she or he is already looking for and earning a commission from the sale. As an Affiliate Marketer, you literally show people the way to finding the products they are already looking to buy. The commission you earn is paid by the company selling the products. For the companies, this is a perfect arrangement as they do not need to pay until such time as there is a sale. For you as an at home business, you get to work how and when it suits you. Talk about a win/win!

Keen to know more?  No problem, here is an article to provide more detail:  What Is Internet Affiliate Marketing, have a read.

A quick overview of how to become a successful affiliate marketer:

1. Choose a profitable niche
2. Build your website
3. Attract visitors (also known as traffic) to your website
4. Visitors to your site purchase products which translates into an income for you

You could sell products of your own this way too – though I suspect that as your hands are probably full already. This is one of the joys of affiliate marketing – you do not carry any responsibility for the products, everything from research and development to sourcing and designing, manufacturing, stock holding, packaging to financing the products is in the hands of the company. As an affiliate marketer, your role is purely to market the products through your online business activities, that is your website.

Speaking of websites, don’t panic, technology has changed so much that it no longer takes an IT degree to create a website. It really has been made so much easier, you do not have to know code at all. That is my experience. This site that you are on right now has been built by my fair hands, and I am not a techie at all, the idea of having to understand code, HTML or any of those things scares the living daylights out of me! So, I am proof that you can do this – even if you have never built a website in your life before. To put your mind at ease, please have a read of this article which speaks about building your own site in under 60 seconds, you will see from the video in the article that it can be done in 30 seconds in fact! Impressive – that will be you in no time at all!

As I mentioned, you can sell your own products or become an affiliate marketer. The steps are the same. Affiliate marketing is perfect for those with a leaning towards becoming an entrepreneur. Imagine the difference you could make to your family? Not only financially, but they will also benefit from you learning and growing as an individual!

You will require some know-how.

Affiliate marketing is like anything else, there is a learning curve which is not insurmountable, there are many platforms which will provide you with the education you need to become a successful affiliate marketer.

Best Affiliate Marketing Training Courses You’ll Find Online

1. Wealthy Affiliate (My #1 Recommendation)

Wealthy Affiliate offers exceptional training where you can learn how to select your profitable niche, how to build your website, attract visitors to your site and turn your visitors into buyers of the products you promote.

As I mentioned above, you will learn how to build a website, the Wealthy Affiliate training will take you through the process of how to build a website from scratch step by step. The training is ingenious really because you read, watch videos (seeing and hearing) and you have tasks at the end of every lesson – these tasks put your newly learned skills into practice – literally, you build your website in your training period! I don’t know about you, but I find it much easier to learn if I am doing rather than just watching.

The training covers a myriad of topics and helps community members from newbies to advanced with every aspect of getting their business off the ground. You can ask questions at any time when you may feel stuck, before doing that, I recommend searching for the answers within the platform – there is so much training and knowledge shared on the platform, I doubt there is a question about online and affiliate marketing that cannot be answered within the training and/or the community.

Support

The support in Wealthy Affiliate is incredible too. There is a range of different options available for support from Site Support, the specialists in everything to do with your website. These guys are just a message away 24/7. Their response time is remarkable, especially considering there are something like 1,500,000 members with Wealthy Affiliate! I’ve never had to wait more than 10 minutes for a response and there has not been an occasion where Site Support couldn’t help me.

If your question is not about your website but rather a social media marketing question or content writing, for example, you can ask in Live Chat or in the Help Center. There are community members who take great pride in helping fellow members. As you can imagine, the Wealthy Affiliate community comprises people from all over the world, different walks of life and varying degrees of experience in the online industry. You will find that community members are very generous with their time and knowledge, they share and support each other at every opportunity. You even have direct access to Kyle and Carson, the co-founders of Wealthy Affiliate!

THAT’S NOT ALL! Wealthy Affiliate offers a FREE STARTER ACCOUNT which means you can try out the training and start building while you learn. No credit card details required!

Wealthy Affiliate provides you with a complete set of tools and resources. As mentioned above, there are 1,5 million members from all over the world, and you will find a strong sense of community within the Wealthy Affiliate platform. As you can imagine, there is constant support all around us and mentorship readily available to assist you as you build your online business.

Let’s have a detailed look at what you will get with Wealthy Affiliate:

• Great training explaining every aspect of affiliate marketing
• The advantage of building your site (and business) as you train whilst in your free test drive of the platform
• An awesome community of like-minded entrepreneurs over 1.5 million strong to assist you in your journey, you will find that this assistance ranges from motivation when you need it (trust me, we all do from time to time) to brainstorming ideas and sharing successes
• 24/7 site support
• 24/7 live chat
• Training to assist you in choosing a great niche that you fit in with your interests and passions and generate the income you seek
• Training to teach you how to build a website from scratch step by step. You will be amazed at how easy this has been made for you, your site will be up and live in a matter of minutes.
• Hosting and support facilities for your website, this includes features like your domain, email and more
• SEO (Search Engine Optimization) training which is essential to generating traffic (attracting visitors) to your site. We are talking about free traffic here by making use of keywords which are frequently searched.
• Video tutorials which guide you step by step through each lesson
• Live weekly webinars (also recorded in case you cannot make it at the time). These are presented by Jay who is an excellent trainer, his knowledge is mind-blowing, and cover every aspect possible when it comes to online and affiliate marketing. There is also more than 300 hours worth of replays available in the video training library.
• Access to host up to 50 websites (though it is highly recommended that you start out with just one)
• The most awesome keyword research tool (you can read more about that through another article of mine too) and full training to get the best use of it
• Literally, thousands of free website themes to choose from.
• Advanced training is also available on social media marketing, PPC (Pay Per Click), building an email list, landing pages, sales funnels and more

Once you have taken the platform for a trial spin, you can opt to go Premium which gives you full access to all of Wealthy Affiliate’s tools and resources.

As a welcome gift, you are offered the first month of Premium for $19! That is exceptional value for money!

The most cost-efficient way to join Wealthy Affiliate is to join on a 6 month or yearly membership, as you can see below, the monthly premium is $49 (after your first month special offer), if you pay 6 months at a time ($239) that drops to $39 per month and if you pay Yearly ($359), it drops to $29.92 per month.

Have a look here at the results of Grace, aka littlemama, who is a stay at home mom. These results will know your socks off! She is an absolute inspiration and is simply brilliant at what she does. As Grace says herself, “I am just a stay at home mom”. She proves that with a teachable spirit and strong work ethic, you too can do incredible things and generate a great income for your family. Grace is currently generating a 4 figure per month income!

Click here to create your FREE Starter Membership

2. Chris Farrell Membership

This is also an affiliate marketing training platform. Chris Farrell started online in 2008 and is a successful internet marketer. His training program has also been very well-received.

Chris Farrell’s training is a step by step process of building your affiliate marketing business. Not too different from what is available at Wealthy Affiliate. This training does not offer the free starter account you have seen at Wealthy Affiliate, however.

To join CFM you simply join the membership mailing list which is free. Once you are on the list, you will receive daily emails and short videos explaining the process and how the system works.

These daily videos are easy and fun to watch (as you can see below!). Have a look at the screenshot below of one of the videos, this is great training to supplement what you will receive as a Wealthy Affiliate member – and you don’t need to pay for it.

A Membership with Chris Farrell offers:

• Websites that are done for you.  Meaning that you do not have to be technically minded as there are no coding or web design skills needed.
• Training that covers topics like generating traffic, creating products and business strategies
• Training videos (approx. minutes each, this is very doable, even for someone who is as busy as I am) which take you through the affiliate marketing business process
• Great customer support

Based on the research I have done, I have joined his mailing list and was taken to a landing page where the prices are listed. Here is a screen grab of the membership options. I like that there is a greatly reduced offer for the first 7 days, so you can have a decent look around before upgrading and committing to the #37 per month or $297 per year. See below for more information about what this includes:

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3. Affilorama – Affiliate Marketing Training

Here we have a large affiliate marketing community and training website offered by Affilorama. Their focus is on the newbies who start with no prior knowledge of affiliate marketing. As with Wealthy Affiliate, Affilorama offers free training. As a free member, you get access to training on blog content and videos, their premium membership goes further to include training modules with a menu of pricing which you can buy topic by topic.

These offers include:

Pathway to Passive

AffiloBlueprint

AffiloTools

AffiloJetpack

The biggest difference Affilorama and Wealthy Affiliate is that WA’s premium membership secures access to 100% of the training; while Affilorama’s training is paid module by module. To supplement your WA training, Affilorama’s free and premium content would be of benefit.

Pathway to Passive – $37 per month

This module offers a content strategy for affiliate websites which can boost traffic, increase sales, and lead to great passive income. Have a look here to see an overview of the Pathway to Passive guide for free.

AffiloBlueprint – $197

AffiloBlueprint is a blueprint for building affiliate websites.  Including step by step training which will get you started with making money online.

This module covers the following:

• Finding profitable niches
• How to build professional websites
• Marketing your website and generating traffic
• Monetizing your website

There are over 90 tutorial videos in AffiloBlueprint, these include downloadable lessons, notes, and bonus content. In addition, you have access to a website builder and progress tracker. You can have a closer look at AffiloBlueprint here.

AffiloTools – Free to Affilorama Members

This is a “big picture” web stats provider affiliate and online marketers. Here you are able to see information about what is happening on your website, including SEO, social media, revenue etc. All the stats from your site can be seen in one place. The following information is included:

• Keyword ranking
• Backlink analysis
• Website health score
• Traffic to your site
• Revenue from affiliate networks
• Social media

As an Affilorama member, you have access to these tools, they are a bit limited, however.

AffiloJetpack – $997

This is the premium package on Affilorama and the most expensive too. AffiloJetpack includes a done for you system where you can go directly to generating an income.

I prefer the idea of learning as much as there is to know – after all, I am building my online business. So for me, I would be a bit wary of a system like this. If you would like to start out with a done for you system to test drive the Affilorama option, why not try? But in the long run, I recommend that you learn how to do everything you need to run your online business.

The AffiloJetpack package offers:

• 5 WordPress websites, no setup required and includes hosting
• Cheat sheets for content creation.  This is for writing articles which is an integral part of affiliate marketing.
• Email templates
• Assistance with boosting your email opt-ins in the form of reports

Overall, Affilorama offers great training for both newbies and experienced online and affiliate marketers. If the pricing is affordable for you, the likelihood is there that you could create a successful online business by following and implementing their training.

4. ClickBank Success – Affiliate Marketing Without A Website by Udemy

Udemy is a highly regarded online learning center, they offer in the region of 100,000 courses and have trained more than 30 million students – that’s right, 30 million!

This has been referred to as one of the Best Affiliate Marketing Courses. you can expect to meet KC Tan, Master Affiliate Marketer, and he reveals all his secrets in this course, specific to ClickBank affiliate marketing. KC Tan has received great student testimonials and has taught in the region of 65K plus students! If ClickBank is where you are looking to focus, then this could be the perfect course to get you there.

ClickBank Success course includes the following:

• Video – 3 hours of it, including 15 articles and many downloadable resources, 27 to be precise
• Training on how to select ClickBank products that will help you to make a profit
• Training in Keywords, this is extremely important to understand (and Wealthy Affiliate does a great job with this too!)
• Facebook training – on how to conduct promotions
• How to build a profitable advertising campaign, without a website
• Training in Squeeze pages

There is an investment required for the purposes of your online marketing.  This is flexible and you can start anywhere that fits your pocket, from $1 to $5 per day.

Supplementary tools are introduced in the course and these require additional investment too, they are optional, fortunately.

This course is great for people who do not want to build a website. Thought I want to bring it to your attention that building a website for affiliate marketing truly is not a difficult thing to do. Have a look here for my article about building a free website, as I said, it’s easy and can be done in very little time.

So there you have it, some great At Home Business Ideas For Women [& Men]

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them for me below, I always respond.

Blessings