Starting an Online or Work from Home Business
Starting your own work from home business is not a decision to be taken lightly. It may seem like an easy option but to be honest, working at home is not as easy as it sounds. You have to be financially, emotionally and mentally prepared before you go into it. Lots of...
6 Technologies That Make It Easier to Run a Home-Based Business
Perhaps you’re hoping to either start a new home-based business or improve the efficiency of an existing business. In either case, technology offers you many possible opportunities to streamline your operations and increase productivity. The following are 6 different...
How To Start A Business From Home While On Maternity Leave
When you are up at 3am with a crying baby, thinking about running a business seems impossible but it might just be the perfect time to start. Children have a great way of bringing the important things in life into perspective – the time you have with them is precious...
How to Grow Your Home Business in a Sustainable Way
Aussie mums are finding better ways to join the economy and build careers without sacrificing their motherhood duties. 7 per cent of mums are self-employed and building their own business from their home. The global shutdown driven by COVID-19 will forever reshape how...
5 Ways to Make Your Home Based Business More Sustainable
Even if you don’t take any other steps, working from home is already quite a sustainable practice. You don’t burn fossil fuels commuting to work; and, in many cases, you also don’t need to maintain a separate career wardrobe. So, as a work-at-home mum, you’re already...
How to Work from Home Productively with Kids
Staying on task can be a challenge when you work from home. The children are fighting, your partner is nagging you, and the dog is making circles around the front door needing to be walked. So how do you deal with the constant interruptions when you work from home?...
When do I Need to Charge GST in My Business?
One of the most confusing things about running a business in Australia is whether or not you need to charge GST on your invoices. You may think that just because you have an ABN (Australian Business Number) and people are charging you GST that you need to do the same,...
Selling Your Business in Australia
Selling your business is a big decision. Often, you have put years of hard work, both emotionally and physically into your business and selling for whatever reason is not always easy. But if you have made the decision to move on, then the next thing to consider is how...
Starting Your Own High Quality Skincare Line with Minimal Start Up Costs
The 2016 census from the Australian Bureau of Statistics highlighted that 6.7 percent of mums in Australia currently care for their children as well as undertake work or study from home. That’s 114,800 women! What a figure to celebrate! Particularly given that there...
3 Aspects of a Good Website
Many people are keen to make an extra income from blogging, or to even replace their full time salary from the income they generate from their blog – yet, creating a good website is a lot trickier than many people think. Whether it’s a website to house the blog...
WAHM’s: Is Your Home Business Safe From These Common Threats?
Have you ever thought how safe your house is? When your home is also your business, it’s doubly important. It gives you even more reason to ensure it’s kept safe and protected, and there are a number of things you can do so that this is the case. Here’s how you can...
Work At Home Mums helps educate, encourage and empower mums to achieve the work at home life they want. Work At Home Mums (#WAHM) is a lifestyle brand dedicated to supporting home based professionals in their quest for success and work life balance.
While mums are what we know about best, we hope that dads, carers, those with a disability and others who live in remote and rural communities, or who are unable to leave home and seeking home based work and telework jobs will also find the information on Work At Home Mums relevant and useful to you.
