Get paid from home

Today we are going to discuss how to turn your hobby into cash i.e. getting paid to do what you love.

Most hobbies, but not all, have two elements contained within them. The product portion (something you produce and can sell) and a service element (a service you can offer to people at a cost).

For example, let’s say your hobby is making toys. There are two different saleable elements of the same hobby. You could sell your toys, a product, or you could sell your toy-making skills as a service by teaching others how to make toys.

You can hone your skills to build an income and escape your 9 to 5 as well as to teach others to make toys. But the two ventures need to be kept separate. On the whole you can use the same techniques to sell your hobby product as your hobby service.

So now that you have identified the two marketable portions of your hobby, how do you start getting paid to do what you love? 

Let’s start by analyzing the product element first. You’ve got a bunch of toys that you’ve made and you keep producing new ones when you have the time. Perfect: that’s your initial stock.

But you need an outlet. By far the simplest and most cost effective outlet available to you is the Internet. A website that potential customers can visit, view your product and order is the most ideal outlet in this regard.

You can develop and clean the website in time, but to get started, that’s all you need. Your website doesn’t need to break the bank either. You can create simple but effective websites
with website builders like wordpresss

The drawback with such free services is that online order forms are complex to set up. But you can get round this by providing customers with a telephone number or an email address with which they can order directly from you. At this early stage of your business this is actually a lot more effective.

Once you’ve set up a website for your hobby product, in exactly the same way you can set up a website for your hobby service. You should follow exactly the same principles as your hobby product website: keep it simple and easy to use, making sure prices and contact details are easily identifiable.

You’ve set up two websites. One for your hobby product and one for your hobby service. People can view the websites, people can see what you’re selling and how much it will cost them and people can contact you to purchase your product or service.

If you set your mind to it, it's easily achievable. And you’ll have set up an outlet to start selling your product or service (or both).


To your success.......