Do you want to have a successful home business idea but don’t know what to choose? Are you a mom who wants to work from home, have free time and make a good income year after year? Did you realize one day that you wanted to enjoy life’s moments with your children or family but couldn’t due to a full-time and busy job schedule? I, Elke Clarke, came across Zazzle 10 years ago when my children were young. I used Zazzle’s unique eCommerce platform to build my successful 6 figure a year online home business. You can earn income from Zazzle too without any costs to you except for your time, internet, and laptop. Easily start a virtual store on Zazzle and begin selling virtual products in minutes.

In this article and video, I interview, Lorena Depante, a mom and entrepreneur, who discovered Zazzle about a year ago. Read on to learn about her success story and why Zazzle is the best choice for a successful home business idea for moms and dads.

The Best Successful Home Business Idea for Moms

If you are like myself and Lorena Depante, one day you realized that watching your children grow up was very important to you. You want to enjoy time with them rather than working an extremely exhausting job. Not to mention that taking care of a growing family is a lot of work! You want to be there for your children when they need you. Both Lorena and I realized we needed to find a different way to make income so that we could be there for our families. Being creative entrepreneurs, we searched for ways to make money online.

When you do a Google search for “Successful Home Business Idea” you get almost 500,000,000 results. Lots of other people, like you, are searching for THE best way to make money online. They want a business they can do from home that is actually doable, makes sufficient money, and is long-term, so it is a business and not just a hobby.

The top search results show articles that tell you hundreds of ways to make money as a stay-at-home mom or dad.

With so many options how do you choose?

The articles don’t make it easy for you either by using words like “proven”, “legitimate”, “easily” and “profitable”. These just lure you into believing that ONE of these options could be how you can REALLY make money from home.

Who do you trust? Honestly, making money, especially money online, is not as easy as the articles say.

You need something more structured and set up for you already so that you have a good chance to be successful in your business.

Right?

Common Money-Making Ideas that Sound Great But Are Hard to Earn Good Money From

Making substantial money from the ideas listed below is hard and they don’t give you long-term repeatable income;

• start a blog and get paid with Ad Sense, or affiliate income
• get paid to take surveys
• write copy for articles and reviews or do editing
• sell physical products online with an online store like eBay, Etsy, Shopify, Amazon, or your own website
• offer your graphic design or photography services
• write eBooks and sell them on Amazon

These ideas all sound great but for each idea listed you need to invest money and they don’t give you consistent passive income.

I only want to work hard once but then get paid over and over again for my efforts.

A substantial passive income is how you will end up having the time freedom you crave.

AND…..TIME FREEDOM is THE most important thing you and I are working for.

Sure money is nice, but it is the time that money buys you that is the most precious!!

Why Does a Business Using Zazzle Provide Time and Location Freedom?

Do you, as a mom, have the time to set up all the things a proper business needs like marketing, sales, product sourcing, product fulfillment, customer billing, shipping, and customer service?

No! …..You are busy with so many things already and you do not have the money to invest right now!

Would you like a place online where marketing, sales, product sourcing, product fulfillment, customer billing, shipping, and customer service were already done for you for FREE?

That is big. YES! ….Zazzle, a done-for-you business system. You get to have fun designing virtual products for free….and get paid royalties when they sell!

All you need to do is make virtual products in your free virtual store on the Zazzle platform. Choose from 1000’s products to design and sell with your uploaded photos, artwork, text, and graphics. OR use the unique Zazzle design tool that gives you many features like Adobe Photoshop to create designs right on Zazzle on virtual products.

Then your products are available for anyone in the world to see and buy….day or night…month after month….year after year. Zazzle takes care of everything and you receive an email saying how much you made on a sale.

You can run your business from anywhere and anytime and you can earn money whether you are working or not working.

Now you can see why Zazzle is a great platform to use, better than Shopify or Esty.

How Lorena Depante Found the Best Successful Home Business Idea for Her

Lorena, our guest on our show today, found Zazzle by doing lots of research on the Internet to check out different options that would suit her situation.

She did not have time to run all the different parts of a business.

She realized that the Zazzle eCommerce platform gave her so many advantages to allow her to get started faster and achieve her goal sooner of having her own successful home business.

Lorena’s Story

My name is Lorena Depante, designer, owner of LD Design Loft, wife, and mother of 4. I’ve always wanted to start a business of my own but the demands I knew it would have on my family kept it on the back burner. I believe I had two major inspirations in eventually pursuing it.

When I became a mother, I looked at my baby and said to myself “I want to be there for you, I want to be present in the moments that make you proud”. Because of this, I started thinking about the future even more.

“I want us to own our time; to have the balance that our family needs.”

The second reason was also about the future but it involved my personal growth. As a mother, I noticed that I also started getting too lost in my children’s world, I forgot that I still have more I can do. I had the desire to grow and learn and my creativity needed nurturing.

Why Lorena Choose Zazzle for Her Business

This all started to become feasible when I stumbled upon Zazzle Inc., a print-on-demand, eCommerce platform. In having an Internationally renowned corporation like Zazzle support my business, I was able to make things happen. They take care of the manufacturing and fulfillment of customer orders worldwide and I got to concentrate on designing.

Benefits of Zazzle

What I really like about Zazzle is that I am creating an inventory of my own copyrighted designs and virtual products. These designs are my copyrighted property and Zazzle pays me royalties to use them.

I can showcase up to 100,000 products in my virtual stores. That is a huge inventory.

My products are there for people to see now, and many years from now, all for free, on a site that has millions of visitors from all over the world.

I could never have that much physical inventory or reach that many customers if I was trying to sell these products on my own.

Treat Your Business Like a Pro

Zazzle has been a wonderful way of getting started in the world of online marketing. I’ve gone into this business as a professional, and am treating my business as a pro, It’s important for me to do things right. Therefore, I sought out mentors through books, podcasts, and videos.

I found that there are benefits to being connected to the right mentors, community, and education. I’m so grateful to have been able to find Elke Clarke and her daughter, Jen on this journey. Their courses and mentoring have helped me improve, work smarter, and stay motivated.

Lorena’s Success on Zazzle in 1 Year

I’m excited to report that after celebrating my first year in business, the income generated from my Zazzle business has improved our family budget, allowing us to save for much-needed family vacations and pay unexpected expenses.

More importantly, this newfound confidence I have gained that comes with the entrepreneurial mindset has allowed me to explore my own creativity, and talents and broaden my business potential.

A happy mom makes for a happy home.

I’m thrilled about my successful home business and where it can take me in the future.

Where to Find Lorena’s Business

Lorena’s business is called  LD Design Loft.

Check out Lorena’s beautiful website by clicking here.

You can also contact her through her website if you want more information about what she does and about her journey.

Click on this link to be taken to Lorena’s virtual store on Zazzle.

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Comparing Zazzle: Choosing the Best Print-on-Demand Platform

To help you understand why Zazzle stands out as the premier choice for your home business, we’ve put together a series of insightful comparison articles. Explore how Zazzle measures up against other popular print-on-demand platforms:

1. For a detailed comparison of features and opportunities between Zazzle and Etsy, see our “Zazzle vs Etsy” analysis.
2. Understand the differences in product range and artist support in our “Zazzle vs Minted” review.
3. Dive into the unique advantages Zazzle has over Redbubble in our “Zazzle vs Redbubble” article.
4. Compare the community and creative aspects of Zazzle with Society6 in the “Zazzle vs Society6” piece.
5. Learn about the distinct design and fabric options when we pit Zazzle against Spoonflower in “Zazzle vs Spoonflower“.

Each article is designed to showcase why Zazzle is a top choice for entrepreneurs looking to launch a successful home business with minimal upfront investment.

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Download My Newly Updated FREE eBook On How To Make Money On Zazzle

Do you want to get started on Zazzle but want the inside scoop on what the best things to do are?

Elke Clarke’s FREE eBook “10 Insider Tips on How to Make Money on Zazzle” was updated in January 2018.  Even if you have downloaded the previous version of the eBook, we recommended that you read the new one which contains updates and new material. Find out why Elke Clarke thinks Zazzle is the best successful home business idea for you.