“Did you know that you could make a full-time income from what you already know?”
Most of us have a hobby and many will have several hobbies.
Some people are into collecting stamps, scrapbooking or creating graphic designs, while other people will love hiking, bicycling, photography, sewing, and or horseback riding.
You could even being doing something that you love and may not even consider a “hobby”.
In short, technically, anything that you love doing for fun and engage in outside of your occupational activities is considered a hobby, so you could say that many people will have a lot of hobbies.
Turning a Hobby into a Business
Have you ever thought about turning one of your hobbies into a business?
It may surprise you to know that you could convert almost any hobby into an income generating business.
You may also be surprised that you could covert your hobby into a business without having huge overheads or ridiculous high start-up costs.
What is also great is that you don’t even have to have a specific product to sell.
In fact, you can make your knowledge of your hobby, your product to sell.
Selling Your Knowledge of Your hobby
Because you hobby is doing something that you love to do. You will have gain a lot of knowledge about it.
You will know a lot about it and what you know you can share.
For example if you make scrapbooks for your friends and family, they your will have extensive knowledge of where you can get the best deals on your scrapbooking supplies and on how you can create special effects on your photo album pages.
You may places that you go to, to get inspiration such as magazines and websites.
You will have personal knowledge on the best way to get started in the hobby, you will know where you can get your supplies such as:
- Paper
- Stickers
- Glue
- Photo albums
- Scrapbooking tools
This would be valuable information to someone wanting to get started in scrapbooking.
You could offer this knowledge as your product to sell.
Think People Won’t Buy it?
Think Again.
How Does This Work?
If you have ever used a search engine, such as Google, Bing, Yahoo to look up information, you will know that it can become time consuming to sort through all the information to find exactly what you are looking for.
Quite often searching for what you want can become a little overwhelming having to determine what you can use and what you need to avoid.
So when you make your personal knowledge of a hobby your product to sell you are helping many other people that want to find relevant information. You are saving them time. You are helping preventing them from spending hours on searching for what they are looking for.
You Don’t Need A Physical Product to Sell
The great thing is that you don’t need a physical product to sell in order to make a profit.
In fact having an inventory or having to create a physical product from materials will lower your profit margin.
Selling your knowledge / information will be a higher profit margin.
Selling Your Knowledge
Information products are among the top selling items for many reasons.
Selling your knowledge will offer you a low start-up cost, meaning that you will start earning profits after you have sold a couple of items.
Informational products include:
- Ebooks
- Email courses
- Online courses
- Audio files
- Software
- Websites
Basically anything that you can download from the internet.
With this method you are not required to have any inventory and you can set-up your online business model that will allow you to earn money from the other people’s work.
How Can You Get These Products?
So now you may be thinking that you do not have an eBook or written and eBook or have products to sell.
You may even be thinking that you have little to no writing skills.
You wouldn’t know where to start in creating an online course let alone creating software.
These are all specialised skills that you don’t have.
But…
You can still sell your knowledge.
You could start by creating a “package” of items that someone would need to get them started in a particular hobby and then you would promote it as the “everything you need to know” about starting that hobby.
One of the easiest way to get started with low overheads is to become an affiliate for the products that you will be recommending to your audience.
You can find out more about affiliate marketing here.
Using the affiliate marketing method will open the doors to many products that you could recommend and this would be done without having to purchase and or have an inventory to take care of.
Affiliate programs are a great way to be able to earn commissions over and over again long after you have shared your knowledge on your website.
Also it will lesson your work load because all you have to do is share your knowledge and share what you use in your hobby.
You will also need to have your own website.
This is not as hard as it sounds and you can find out more about how to get started online here.
You can learn all you need to know about creating your website and how you can create content for your website.
You do not need to have any experience because you will be getting step by step training to get started.
You can try it out for free and get a feel. You will also meet many other people like myself that have started from scratch.
Anyone can build a profitable online business from scratch using this step by step training.
In fact you can see proof of it right here on this website and how it is working for me.
You will also be able to see how it is working for others too.
It will also work for you too.
You can find out how you can get started by clicking the banner below.
You can also get started for free.
Here’s the tough truth you probably already know.
If you want different results you need to do something different.
Make a definitive decision right now to get different results
Here’s what you and I know, one year from today you will certainly arrive.
The question is where?
That is your decision to make right now.
Thank you for visiting
I really hope that you found this helpful.
If you have any questions or thoughts regarding Turn Your Hobby into Profit Sell Your Knowledge or anything else, please feel free to leave me a comment below.
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Here’s to making it happen
Jennifer
Smart Laptop Lifestyle
