Do you have a hobby? For instance:
…just to name a few. You can make some “fun cash” if you monetize a hobby you are already doing. There are some easy steps you can take to turn something you love to do into an income stream.
- Music (Playing instruments, recording, digital engineering, dj)
- Collecting (Cards, coins, stamps, Pogs)
- Crafting (anything needle thread, glue gun, yarn, jewelry making, pottery
- Art (drawing, sketching, painting, pastel, photography, digital imagery, Photoshop)
- Writing (poetry, songs, blogs, stories, playwrights, skits)
- Performance (sports, dancing, exercise, swimming, extreme sports, snow sports)
- Culinary Arts (recipe, chef, cake decorating)
- Gaming (Video Games, Table games, Casino games)
…just to name a few. You can make some “fun cash” if you monetize a hobby you are already doing. There are some easy steps you can take to turn something you love to do into an income stream.
Step One: How could others benefit from my hobby?
Virtually any hobby you could possibly have can offer either a product in some form, a service, or both. Do you jog? Perhaps you may create your own trendy sweatbands, design a map of jogging routes, offer advertising to local businesses on a t-shirt, you could start a group, doesn’t matter what you do as long as the end result is you offering people value that was inspired by your hobby.
Step Two: Expand Your Friend-list.
You love your hobby, you want to talk about it and share all your experience, but your close friends, family, neighbors, and cable guy might not be as passionate about the subject matter, let alone be willing to put any money into it. It’s time to make some new acquaintances, and you may even make some new friends, once you start searching for groups and forums for people who share an interest in your hobby. Use the internet as your main source, but you could also see if there are any groups, clubs, or networks in your local area.
Step Three: Be Proud of What You Do!
Share, share, share! Let anybody and everybody in on what your hobby is and all the updates, like if you learned how to play a new song, or booked your first gig at a local joint, you made a new high score, photos of your newest masterpiece, nailed a great trick, your new stories plots/character’s personalities, the clothing you made for your nieces/nephews, keep everyone you’re in contact with updated with what’s going on with your hobby. This is how you sell yourself as an expert in the field. Even if you don’t feel like an expert in your hobby, that doesn’t mean your friends, family, neighbors and acquaintances see it the same way. There will always be people that know more about your hobby than you do, but as long as you are passionate about what you do, you will know more than most people you interact with, and that means you’re an expert in their eyes. So the next time those people are having a conversation about your hobby with someone else, they will automatically think of you and that means a new referral, which could translate into a new acquaintance, and perhaps a new customer/client. Then, through word of mouth, the process repeats and begins compounding results.
Now You’re Making “Fun Cash”
After your hobby has manifested a new expert amongst your community, people who value what you do are coming out of the wood work to pay for your expertise, because of the buzz you started by sharing your passion with everyone you came in contact with. Once you reach this point you now have a set of options ahead of you, you can stay put and make some new friends while pocketing some money here and there, or expand your hobby & turn it into a business idea! Whatever you choose to do with your hobby your main priority is to keep it fun, or else it will no longer be considered “fun cash”.
Virtually any hobby you could possibly have can offer either a product in some form, a service, or both. Do you jog? Perhaps you may create your own trendy sweatbands, design a map of jogging routes, offer advertising to local businesses on a t-shirt, you could start a group, doesn’t matter what you do as long as the end result is you offering people value that was inspired by your hobby.
Step Two: Expand Your Friend-list.
You love your hobby, you want to talk about it and share all your experience, but your close friends, family, neighbors, and cable guy might not be as passionate about the subject matter, let alone be willing to put any money into it. It’s time to make some new acquaintances, and you may even make some new friends, once you start searching for groups and forums for people who share an interest in your hobby. Use the internet as your main source, but you could also see if there are any groups, clubs, or networks in your local area.
Step Three: Be Proud of What You Do!
Share, share, share! Let anybody and everybody in on what your hobby is and all the updates, like if you learned how to play a new song, or booked your first gig at a local joint, you made a new high score, photos of your newest masterpiece, nailed a great trick, your new stories plots/character’s personalities, the clothing you made for your nieces/nephews, keep everyone you’re in contact with updated with what’s going on with your hobby. This is how you sell yourself as an expert in the field. Even if you don’t feel like an expert in your hobby, that doesn’t mean your friends, family, neighbors and acquaintances see it the same way. There will always be people that know more about your hobby than you do, but as long as you are passionate about what you do, you will know more than most people you interact with, and that means you’re an expert in their eyes. So the next time those people are having a conversation about your hobby with someone else, they will automatically think of you and that means a new referral, which could translate into a new acquaintance, and perhaps a new customer/client. Then, through word of mouth, the process repeats and begins compounding results.
Now You’re Making “Fun Cash”
After your hobby has manifested a new expert amongst your community, people who value what you do are coming out of the wood work to pay for your expertise, because of the buzz you started by sharing your passion with everyone you came in contact with. Once you reach this point you now have a set of options ahead of you, you can stay put and make some new friends while pocketing some money here and there, or expand your hobby & turn it into a business idea! Whatever you choose to do with your hobby your main priority is to keep it fun, or else it will no longer be considered “fun cash”.
