WEAVERVILLE, NC, July 16, 2002 — It's the new American Dream: working from home while raising a family. But how do parents dump the daily grind and start making a living at home? One good starting place is the award-winning MoneyMakingMommy.com (http://www.moneymakingmommy.com), one of the oldest and most respected work-at-home sites on the Web.
Founded on a no-scam policy, MoneyMakingMommy.com is helmed by Kelly Land, herself a work-at-home mom of two. In 1999, when her oldest was three years old, Land was working full-time in radio. Although fulfilled professionally, Land felt torn about leaving her child in daycare every day. "I talked to other working moms. They all felt the same way," she says. "But we loved our jobs and needed the income, so we had no clue what to do."
Land began scouring the Internet for work-at-home jobs. She found a few sites for moms and applied for the jobs they listed, but repeatedly was disappointed to find "employers" wanting fees to process her applications or to purchase start-up materials. There were plenty of scams but precious few legitimate work-from-home jobs.
So, in the tradition of countless successful entrepreneurs before her, Land saw a need and set about filling it. She taught herself Web design, studied Boolean terms to have a better chance of finding work-from-home jobs through search engines, and launched a free weekly e-mail newsletter packed with the fruits of her labor: how-to articles on working from home, home business ideas, and at least 12 honest-to-goodness work-at-home or telecommuting positions in each issue.
Three years and a 125-page website later, Land has helped scores of her 5,100 newsletter subscribers begin working from home. To help in their quest, visitors to MoneyMakingMommy.com can receive a free list of over 1,000 companies that hire home workers.
The site itself is a goldmine of information for prospective work-at-home parents. Besides the free list of work-at-home companies, MoneyMakingMommy.com offers leads on telecommuting positions, step-by-step information on starting a variety of home businesses, an online mall featuring work-at-home parents' products and services, barter listings and much more. Land also plans to launch MotherList.com, a free directory of parent-owned sites, later this month; a low-cost telecommuting resume submission service will follow later this summer.
With over 59,000 hits daily, most of them from the holy grail of demographics – women, family decision-makers, between the ages of 25 and 55 – MoneyMakingMommy.com is also a valuable resource for advertisers. Land offers a variety of low-cost advertising options for both the site and the newsletter.
"By no means do I make a fortune off my website," Land finishes. "I make enough to keep me at home and keep it all going. Which, I guess, is what we're all looking for. I'm here for my kids, which was my main goal in the beginning. Now I want to help make that happen for others."
CONTACT:
Kelly Land
MoneyMakingMommy.com
828-687-6561
Email
http://www.moneymakingmommy.com