Published on May 09, 2010 Beat increasing child care costs in Australia
How can families tackle the increasing costs of child care? The average cost of child care in Austrlia has been reported to be $375 per week (often ranging from $55-$125 per day). One potential alternative to paying these steep costs while going out to work for your family’s income is to start an online business. Then you can work from home, take care of the kids, and increase your income.
Starting an online business while looking after your young children is not as daunting as you may believe:
- There are plenty of great online business ideas for busy home-based mothers or fathers that are relatively easy to get going. What are you passionate about? From scrapbooking to crafts to wedding favours to children’s toys, almost anything can be sold on line.
- Registering an Australian Business Number (ABN) with the ATO is free and in most states registering a business name is not horrendously expensive. Once you have a business certificate and ABN, you can start finding a supplier.
- Ozcart makes it easy to get an online business website started. We have a number of packages starting at $50 a month and the website technology and design is all there – you just have to start adding your products, choose your payment methods and marketing your website.
- There is a large amount of free help on the Internet for people running home based businesses. We point many of our own customers in the direction of some places they can start. But if you’re not yet an Ozcart customer and would like to see what is available try searching for home business resources in Google and follow some of the links returned.
One of the biggest advantages of an online store is you can manage it how you want. If you are replying to a customer’s email enquiry and your baby needs her nappy changed, you can do that and come back to your email when you’re ready. If you need to talk to customers on the phone then what you do will depend on how your baby sleeps and how noisy they are when awake. The good news is there are many message taking services in Australia at competitive prices so your callers can leave you a message and the message gets emailed or texted to your phone. You can then reply to your customer when you are available.
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