TURN YOUR HOBBY INTO A MONEY-MAKING MACHINE Hobbies are known for being money drains. If you think, you have skillful hobbies and using them in your free time. There is an opportunity to monetize it and turn your hobbies into a money-making machine! But there is a condition, if you know what are you doing and why are you doing. Hobbies are things that you love to do in your free time. And you are quite good at them but because of your jobs and other liabilities, you never noticed or improve on them. What if you can earn some money from them. Wouldn’t that be fun? Doing something that you love and getting income from doing it. Well in the past it would be next to impossible to achieve this but nowadays it’s quite possible to create an income funnel through it. But before we begin we must first ask ourselves why didn’t I thought of it earlier? Or if I thought about it why didn’t I go with it? The reason is you were afraid of failing and losing your investment. And that’s natural, we all have a fear of failing. But that doesn’t mean we should stop doing it because we are fearful. Trying to earn money through your hobby isn’t easy but it’s definitely not impossible. There are various ways to earn money by doing what you love, if strategize everything, step by step then everything will turn out easy. Here are some tips: 01. Plan ahead Before you even begin investment or start doing anything you first need to come up with a plan for how do you want to do it. First, do research on a hobby that you want to start using as your earning source. Then look into from where can you start earning using it. Suppose your hobby is article writing. So first you need to look up is your writing skill at a good level to write for news or webpage contents. You can easily determine your level by reading various articles and website contents and compare them to your writing. Besides this, there are also other writing techniques that can help to improve your writing. After having an understanding of your level you can visit websites like Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer, etc. where you can work as a freelancer and be hired for your skills. Or you can share your content on sites like Patreon, Ko-fi, Streaming Plug, etc. where you will be paid for your deeds by followers who love to follow you. Like this, you have to plan out how are you going to start and where do you want to use your hobby to earn. 02. Earn from your first content The first and foremost important thing, in the beginning, is your first income. It doesn’t matter how much you make $3 or $1000, the first sell is the toughest. No one knows you, no one trusts you so why should they take service from you. There are many strategies that can help you in getting your first income. It all depends on the service that you are providing. If you selling your arts, crafts, food, etc then you give out some free items or offers. If you are providing online services like design services, creative content writing, content for social platforms, etc. then you include a special offer for a limited time to attract customers. 03. Utilizing your time Since you are planning to make your hoppy into a money-making machine you must give it time. I know it might be hard to give all your extra time to your hobby after your full-time job. But in the initial state, you have to give it the time or all your planning and preparation will be wasted. 04. Show your presence online and networking Nowadays everything is in the palm of your hand through the internet. Every new start-up that there is must have an online presence. You can not only earn but also broadcast yourself online. For others to know about your services they can either stumble upon you online or hear about from someone. It’s very crucial for you to use this networking advantage to spread that you provide these services. So more people may engage you for your services.
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