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I spent an entire day writing this article. If you’d be so kind to share it on Pinterest, it’d mean a lot to me!

My wife is a stay-at-home mom who takes care of our two boys. She works a couple hours each day and is able to earn a substantial amount of money for our family each month. She’s amazing!

Unfortunately, many moms feel powerless because they can’t find legitimate work-from-home opportunities and sometimes fall victim to Tupperware, handbag, cosmetics or other “parties” that usually charge you a lot of money up front to start selling and rarely result in the success you want. Or, businesses that want you to pay thousands of dollars to get a “certificate in medical billing,” or “secret shopper” scams. Certainly these can be completely legitimate, but all too often it ends up costing the person more money than they ever earn.

I want to share with you a few things I personally have experience with. I’m not a mom (don’t have the legs for it, really 🙂 but I am able to work from home in a spare bedroom and earn a full-time income. I’ve personally done these things to earn money, and each has proven to be successful–some more than others.

#1: Start a Free Amazon Associates Account

This is probably my favorite opportunity on this list because it’s really easy to get started and easy to make your first dollar. Amazon has an affiliate program that allows anyone to sign up for an account and then earn a commission if someone buys something from Amazon using the special link they give you. Usually, you’ll earn 8% of the cost of the item on Amazon but that depends on the category the item is in.

I got started with Amazon Associates in 2011. I signed up for an account (which takes less than 5 minutes) and earned my first commission my first week. I also started a blog about a hobby of mine, and posted my Amazon affiliate links on the blog. I earned a very small income the first month, but I’ve stuck with it and now earn about $6,000 per month by placing Amazon Associates links on my websites.

To get started, log in to your Amazon.com account and then look for the tiny link in the bottom for Amazon Associates. Sign up there. When you’re done, it will give you a special link. For example, mine is improvphotog-20. Take that and add it to any normal Amazon link. So you might find a particular baby teething ring you like and go to that page on Amazon. Now copy the link. It’ll be really long, but let’s pretend it’s http://amazon.com/baby-teething-ring Now just write your code on the end like this: http://amazon.com/baby-teething-ring/improvphotog-20 Now all you have to do is post that link all over the place!

You can start by going to your personal Facebook page and posting about the teething ring you like and telling your friends about it. Then include your Amazon Associates link to the product. If one of your friends buys the teething ring after clicking on your link, you get a percentage of the sale. Your friend doesn’t pay any extra, and you make money. Win-Win. Oh, and if your friend clicks your link to the baby teething ring and gets distracted and ends up buying a new vacuum–you still get your commission even though that’s not what you linked to! Awesome!

Posting on Facebook can be a good start, but you’ll likely only earn a few dollars. But if you start a small blog about the products you want to write about, you could start earning serious money over time. If you don’t know what to write about, don’t worry. We have a huge list of over 350 ideas for websites. Click here to get access to that list. And if you need help getting your blog started, check out incomeschool.com/new.

You may even be interested in Project 24, a complete step-by-step guide to building sites with Jim and Ricky.

Don’t want to start your own blog? Just write free guest posts for other people’s blogs on the condition that they let you use your Amazon links in the article. Win-Win.

How much you can earn: I personally earn about $17,000 per month with Amazon Associates, but it took me a long time to build up a website and get readers. If you start really small and just post on Facebook, you could probably earn $200 per month in five or six months.
Startup cost: $0
How long it takes to earn your first dollar: You could very likely earn your first commission today and a check in 30 days, but you probably wouldn’t break the $100 per month mark in the first five months. It’s a slow build up and then you’ll suddenly start seeing much higher numbers.
Likelihood of earning at least some money: Very high. If you post enough you’re unlikely to fail.

This is a screenshot of my Amazon Associates account for March, 2015 for just one of my websites. I have several more. You certainly can’t expect to do this right away, but stick with it and you can do really well.

#2: Freelance Writing for Blogs

Bloggers like me are always looking for new content. It’s tough to write something new every day, so I invite guest bloggers to write content for my site and pay them for their efforts.

Most bloggers pay between $25 and $45 per article of 2,000 words. The good thing is you don’t have to be an expert to do this. Often the blog author will assign you a headline so you can research it online and put together an article. As long as you can write decently well and can find the answers online, you’re perfect for this opportunity.

In fact, if this idea interests you, click here to learn more about how to get started as a freelance writer. Or, if you’re an experienced photographer, hit me up on Twitter @improvephoto if you’d like to get paid to write for my photo blog.

How much you can earn: I personally pay about $30 per article when people write on one of my blogs. Each site is different.
Startup cost: $0
How long it takes to earn your first dollar: You could very likely earn your first dollar this week
Likelihood of earning at least some money: Very high as long as you successfully find a blog to write for

#3: Put Money in an Index Fund

One of the easiest ways you can earn an income from home is by simply making better use of the money you already have. Most people delay investing simply because they aren’t sure how to get started, but if you do, you’re very very likely to end up wealthy.

Let’s suppose you are able to watch your budget just a little better, use coupons, hold a garage sale, and scrap together just $170 out of your budget to put in an index fund each month. If you put the money in a safe, reliable index fund at 10% interest, you’ll have $1,022,389.02 in 40 years. You’re a millionaire on just $170 per month.

There are so many investments that it’s tough to know what a safe and reliable on is. Personally, I recommend index funds for this. An index fund invests in many of the largest 500 companies in America. Over the last 100 years, and the last 20 years, and the last 10 years, you’re very likely to see a return of about 9 or 10% after fees. These are much safer investments than buying stock in an individual company.

You can find index funds through most banks (just make sure they charge less than 1% fees), or through online sites like Vanguard.com. Pick an index fund or ETF with a long track record and set it up to automatically take $170 per month from your bank account. Just let it sit and do not touch it for any reason! You’re guaranteed to see the money fluctuate up and down but do not touch it! If you just leave it alone for years and keep adding to it each month, you’re pretty likely to end up with substantial wealth.

If you want a convenient little calculator to see how much money your investment will ear

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