Four Marketable Business Skills Every Stay-at-Home Mom
Has Already Developed
Are you a stay-at-home mom looking for a part-time, very
flexible job? Well, don’t worry about your skills, even if you never
worked in a full-time job before raising a family. Raising a family is a
full-time job and in the process of doing it, you’ve picked up these marketable
skills.
Organization. Running a family requires that
you plan well. Your children need to be fed, educated, moved around and
entertained. That’s a big task, especially when it comes on top of
managing the house and the household finances. Showing that you keep
today’s especially complicated household in order applies to the needs of most
business – objectives, deliverables, deadlines. And you’ve already been
doing it.
Flexibility. Even the most organized mom
learns that things never go exactly to plan. Someone gets sick. A
carpool doesn’t show up on time. A bill doesn’t get paid. Someone
forgets their lunch. If everything happened the way you planned it in
life, business would be easy as well. But it doesn’t. That’s why
businesses want employees who don’t get flustered when life doesn’t go to plan,
but instead simply and quickly make a new plan.
Social Skills. Almost every successful
businessperson understands what make people tick. Why they do what they
do in the office. Or why they buy what they do, if they’re a
consumer. As a mom, your social skills are tested every day. You
negotiate with your children, their friends, other parents and teachers all the
time. And when you do it right, you’re able to get everyone walking down
the same path. That’s called leadership.
Creativity. As a mom, you’re constantly
inventing new solutions to problems. Or you’re just great at using your
social skills to find a solution to a problem or opportunity that’s come
up. Either way, it doesn’t matter. Problem-solving is one of the
top skills desired in any employee.
So you’ve developed these skills. And now maybe you’re
interested in looking for a very flexible, part-time job. Perhaps you
want a bit of spending money. Or just are looking to expand your
horizons. What to do?
If you’re applying for a posted job opportunity (e.g.,
retail associate at Nordstrom) you should now start thinking about the examples
you can provide to demonstrate the skills they seek. You’ve got them, so
be prepared to share specific stories.
Starting Your Own Home-Based Business?
But instead of applying for a job at someone else’s company,
maybe you’re interested in starting your own home-based business. But
starting your own business can easily become a 24/7, very expensive
proposition. That’s why many women are now starting local versions of
businesses that have already been launched nationally. They’re joining
hugely successful home-based businesses like 31 Gifts, Mary Kay and Stella
& Dot, as well as excellent ground floor opportunities at hot,
up-and-coming companies like Pastiche Custom Perfume.
There sure are a lot of stay-at-home moms who are
successfully following this strategy. Over 16MM people in the U.S. earn
part-time income working for a social selling company. And of all the
women in the U.S. who earn $100,000 or more, 80% work in the direct selling
industry. So if you ever decide to dial it up, there’s big money there.
Speaking specifically for Pastiche, we absolutely love the
business skills that stay-at-home moms have already developed – organization,
flexibility, social skills and creativity. In fact, we’ve found that our
most successful Fragrance Designers are stay-at-home moms who simply joined
Pastiche because they had a passion for fragrance. If you’ve got these skills,
we can train you to be successful.
For instance, part of being successful at Pastiche involves
organizing events. When a stay-at-home mom joins our team, we find that
she already knows almost everything she needs to know about organizing a
party. That’s because she’s already organized so many birthday parties.
That makes organizing a Pastiche party simple.
Plus Pastiche is an easy sell. Unless you’re a
celebrity, it’s really hard to find a place to make your own custom perfume and
if you do, it will likely cost you $350 or more.
By contrast, our trained Fragrance Designers host events,
parties and gatherings where guests can make their own custom perfume for as
little as $42. That’s less than what you’d pay for a non-custom perfume
at a Department Store or Sephora.
We’ve received excellent press coverage for this
unique concept and are now expanding rapidly. All of our new Fragrance
Designers join by purchasing a highly-discounted custom perfume kit, which
contains everything they require to conduct an event. There is absolutely
no experience required, simply a passion for fragrance.
If starting your own business in a dream industry with a
proven concept appeals to you, we’d love to connect. Simply reach out
to our President, Dana Knees at either dana@pasticheperfume.com
or 858.367.0270. There’s never any pressure. We want to be
selective, so only want people who genuinely want to be part of this brand new,
growing experience.