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Home Businesses for Single Parents

Being a single parent and bringing home a large income are not two things that generally go together. For single parents balancing work and taking care of the home is not something that can be taught in books. It is a difficult job for anyone who has ever even tried taking care of their families alone for a week. But there are those single parents who have come to realize that the best way to making their life work is to open up an home businesses. Bonnie Kotch was having a bad year in 2003. Her marriage had been falling apart, a bad business partner took off with their clients? money, and her husband came home one day and told her that when her boys were 18, he was leaving her.

Her kids lost their healthcare when her husband quit his full time job to go back to school, expecting Bonnie to support him. Bonnie was looking for work in the economically depressed Northeast Pennsylvania and coming up empty. She wasn?t about to spend the next four years working at some convenience store so her husband could get his degree and leave her. She moved out in June of 2003.
After taking a job that paid less than $200 a week with an insurance company, she made the decision to move to another area where her skills were more in demand, but she ran into other problems. Her credit was bad because of sudden lack of income, and her employment history stopped in 1998.

What skills she had were not wanted without a degree and she didn?t have one. Unresolved bills, car repossession, not to mention the usual gilt, anger and fear one has for their children?s well-being. Bonnie had kept a newsletter running two years after her split with her husband. Most of her subscribers were single parents, through divorce or death. Most of them were looking for ways to make money online. Some of them made money selling her clients? goods online. In corresponding with these people, Bonnie realized that they had talents and skills that weren?t being used. In early 2005, Bonnie continued her newsletter, but began expanding her site with the idea of helping people package their product, and promote it for free or nearly free. ?Most people don?t know that you really don?t need a business loan to get a business started, even if you are starting it offline.?