Virtual Cooperatives Becoming the New Normal for Home Business Owners and Bloggers

Philadelphia, PA, July 6, 2014 (Newswire.com) - As more people are looking for opportunities to work from home, interesting new trends are emerging.  Numerous individuals, especially stay at home mothers, have started home businesses or blogs in an attempt to earn a living.  To ensure mutual success, many of these home workers have organized themselves into virtual cooperatives.

One such home working mother is Christen Pyle, author of the blog Work at Home Wisdom.  “In order for bloggers to generate the traffic they need to be successful, they have found places online where they agree to support one another by visiting each other’s blogs and even sharing them on social media.  Similarly, home business parents have begun to swap services with one another.  It’s like an unspoken agreement that they will buy from one other rather than from big companies.”

Work at Home Wisdom runs a weekly column titled Pay it Forward Friday.  Each Friday a home business or blogging parent is highlighted and readers are encouraged to help out a fellow “work at homie” without expecting anything in return.  Pyle writes, “So, I implore you, that after a long week of working for yourself by promoting your business, earning your own money, and finding ways to increase your revenue, that you take this one day and find at least one thing you can do for someone else.  You'll be surprised to find that this helps you as well.  What we give we also receive, sometimes in the most unexpected of ways.”

Two other notable groups working towards mutual success are The Sits Girls created for women bloggers to support one another and Our Milk Money, a national directory of self-employed parents.  There are many other websites and groups sprouting up with similar intentions.  Work at Home Wisdom’s Pyle is not surprised.

“Everybody wins in this scenario because nobody is being greedy or focusing purely on their own self interests.  The website and founders of the group win because they are getting a ton of traffic.  The bloggers and home business owners all experience increases in sales and traffic as well.  Since nobody is losing out with this sort of set up, I don’t see this trend doing anything but growing in the future.  It’s encouraging and exciting to see.”