Ever wonder how your favorite stores become stocked with all those wonderful and different products? The answer may represent great ideas for jobs for stay at home moms!
Independent Manufacturing Representatives. Independent sales people that work from home, often able to spend most of their time at home and the time outside flexible hours. Great jobs for moms, right?
Those of us looking for jobs for moms and are stay at home moms who consider ourselves people people and can achieve greatness without having to be coddled and babysat in a weekly or daily sales meeting should be able to convert our jobs into jobs for moms that can be done from home.
Jobs for moms as manufacturer’s representatives are available. Your ideal first step would be to find products that you genuinely love and see if you can market them independently as stay at home manufacturers representative.
If you love to golf and have lots of contacts, for example, maybe there’s a new line of golf products that are manufactured by a company who would love to have you represent their products. If you’re an attractive woman who dresses very fashionably and makes personal grooming to a daily expression of personal art, perhaps there is a line of clothing, accessories, cosmetics or similar product that you could represent very effectively.
Jobs for moms as manufacturers reps are ideal for self-starters who want to have flexible hours and a flexible lifestyle, but who are very effective sales people and want to have both worlds. Obviously, people with these types of jobs for moms will spend a lot of time in front of prospective customers, but cold calling, appointment setting, ordering product, research and lots of communication can take place by phone, fax and/or email from your home, and depending on your spouse's schedule, you may be able to alternate the care of your children and still be able to avoid day care.
Jobs for moms as home based manufacturers representatives find new locations, distributors and buyers for the manufacturers product and act like a traditional sales person, except they’re independent. Manufacturer’s reps can represent one product from home or several different manufacturers. Once your customers are established your work can become very routine and involve very little outgoing sales activity with even more time at home.
If you're new to sales jobs for moms, you may find that it may take a modest investment to make your home ready for your new work at home sales job. Each sales job is different and your employer may have his/her own preferences about what you will need to have in order to be a stay at home mom in your sales job, but as a general rule the following items may be required:
- Clear phone line with no background noise in your home
- Voicemail connected to phone line
- Cell phone or pager
- If internet is used, dedicated/second phone line may be required.
- PC with High speed internet access
- Fax machine
- Laptop may be required for field demonstrations
- An email account
- 800 Number may be required for customers to be able to reach you toll-free. (Check with your employer to see who will pay toll charges.)
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