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.