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The other day at Mom Masterminds, a member posted that she had a friend who wanted to learn how to make money online. The friend in question was a single mom of a 2 month old. She was asking for suggestions on what to tell this friend.

Yikes!
I feel for this mom already. I remember looking down at my 6 week old infant in my arms and thinking,

“I would rather sell my used underthings on eBay than go back to work and leave this child.”

I don’t mean to be crude, but that’s how I felt! I also wasn’t single at the time (although my income was sorely needed), so I can only imagine the stress. So I told her that if I had a friend in that situation I would say the following:

Scoop up $23 from the grocery budget or sell someting on eBay or borrow from Grandma. Then:

1) Register a domain - Pick a registrar. I like InternetBasedMomsHosting.com because my friend Alice Seba makes a quarter or two when I get a domain there, but you chould choose any one you like. Buy herfirstnamelastname.com $8

2) Get good hosting - I love Momwebs, $15 a quarter

3) Install a WordPress blog on the domain. Free.

4) Start blogging. Prolifically. Daily. Or more often. Find your voice. Find your passion, find your body of knowledge (everyone has one), find your target market, get readers and people following you, etc.

5) Market stuff as an affiliate.

6) Observe what your readers buy.

7) Rinse, repeat.

You know what’s funny though? When I read her query and then responded, I didn’t see the part about her being a single mom of a 2 month old! When I went back and read that, I realized that this mom might need some urgent, replace-a-paycheck type of money.

With that info in mind, I wrote another response. It read like this:

I would recommend she do some type of work at home job.

Nell Taliercio would be the gal to ask for information on that. Or if she has any kind of skill, she could do some Virtual Assistant work by the hour.

If *I* were in that situation knowing what I know now about making money online, I would immediately start marketing my services as a VA doing transcription or something else like it. Something that would give me immediate cash money in hand.

And I would build up my passive income on the side doing what I mentioned in post above, because although it takes a little time to build, every mom needs passive income especially when that baby starts to grow and take far fewer naps.

So. I hope that is useful to you, especially if you’re new to this blog. And new to the idea of making money online. It really is quite simple, it’s just a lot of work, over and over again.

p.s. eBay doesn’t allow folks to sell their underthings anymore. Not that I would do that, ever.
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