So as I was mentioning in my earlier post, I decided to start making a little bit of money for myself. It’s not like we need it to survive, it’s more for the sake of keeping my sanity. At the moment I am a stay-at-home mom, and my main priority is taking care of my family. My daily tasks are housekeeping, cooking, taking care of my daughter and keeping husband happy. But the longer I do it, the more I realize, that my mind is starting to go numb. I am realizing I have no game in my life. It’s not like I wake up in the morning and go, oh goody, I get to scrub the tub today and do a load of whites! Admit it, it’s not terribly exciting.
Obviously, I could always go back to a full-time job. Except that in couple of months we are expecting a son. I would feel terribly guilty dropping an infant at the daycare just so I can keep my life exciting. It would be selfish. I want to keep my son at home until he’s at least a year and half. And even then, I am not sure if I could leave my kids at the daycare for a full day.
So what a mommy to do?
Money always makes me excited. Making money is a fun game. I understand that I can’t make a full-time engineer’s income working part time from my house. At least not yet. But having a goal is always a great start. My husband is a big inspiration for me. He is an awesome entrepreneur, he makes all of our money online and loves it. Work is a game for him, and that’s why he is successful at it.
So now let me tell you how the idea of creating my own info product came about. I got pregnant very fast, literally within days after our wedding. Pregnancy caught us unexpectedly, we had no maternity insurance or any other funds to pay for my maternity bills. We were stuck between a rock and a hard place. If you’re interested in the full story check out my sales page.
To sum it up shortly, we dealt with my maternity bills ourselves without having maternity insurance or any other type of support. Once I got over the shock of having a newborn, I published an article on my blog about how I saved money on maternity bills. It was one of the more popular articles, and I got great feedback. My husband then suggested, why not make an info product from that. I said, mmmmm, are you serious? Why not he said, once you set it up, you can practically make money while you’re sleeping. Money, I thought, money sounds good.
It took me over six months to turn this idea into reality. Not because I was working really hard on it. It’s more like I was hardly working on it. It kept being pushed aside, for other ‘priorities’ and finally I made a decision to just get it done already! So after many hours of figuring out formatting, creating a PDF file, exploring vendor options, setting up product for sale online, my product is out there, ready to be bought! I know, some of you are probably laughing at me, because you can do it all in couple of hours or less. Ha ha, forgive the newbe.
But I still can’t call myself a mompreneur, because I haven’t made a penny yet. But I’m working on it. I will be posting updates on my progress, so check in soon!
Until then, happy money-making!
on Dec 22nd, 2009 at 11:23 pm
First of all, you are the first woman with engineering degree who decided to become a stay home mom! I never saw anyone who gave up on engineering career so easy! I guess there are different types of people – someone could stay at home with kids with no problems, but others (like me) are getting crazy after just few hours of one-to-one contact with their kids. That’s probably why I don’t see why daycare is such a bad choice. My son started when he was just 2 months old, and not only because I was not ready to give up my job in engineering office, but also because I could not spend all day (every day) with him one to one. I love him; he is the best baby in the world, but still… I believe that quality of time wins over quantity of time big time.
As for the info product, try ebay. When I was pregnant, I saw that type of products over their all the time. It was something like “Having a baby? Ask me how to save”. (where to call and what to say in order to get coupons for baby things, free supplies for entire year and so on).
I personally never thought about making money on my experience. I usually share it with people on different forums for free. + I know that some suggestions cannot work the same for every doctor/every hospital in every state. Some doctors can negotiate the price for maternity package (Prenatal visits + delivery) (one in New Port Richey went from $4500 to $2100 within 2 visits and “long talks”, and another one in Wesley Chapel didn’t even think about changing package price). Thanks God my husbands insurance covered me after all.
Thanks for sharing about Maternity Card experience! It’s a scam!!! – this is how I end up here
Also, what is the idea behind giving 100% satisfaction guarantee on your info product? Some people would buy it, read it, and than complain (money back!)