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Let your hobby make you good moneyDo you have a hobby or something that you are passionately interested in? Take a look at the following list and try to imagine how you could convert it into a very healthy income stream. (I know that list seems daunting but bear with me, you will get the point!) Arts and Crafts • Woodwork • Patchwork/ Quilting • Basket making • Embroidery • Drawing - Still Life • Oil painting • Pottery • Multimedia • Upholstery • Sugarcraft • Dressmaking • Pottery • Homemade soap • Whittling • Beading • Crochet • Knitting • Build your own kite • Paper mache • Mosaics • Stain glass • Furniture restoration • Sculpting • Weaving
• Stamp collecting • Train spotting (collecting train numbers) • Collecting Staffordshire figures Around the house
• Grow your own vegetables
• Fish keeping • Interior design • Hair dressing • DIY
• Cooking • Foreign foods - Indian/ Chinese/ Italian
• Cake decorating Electronics & computing • Amateur Radio • CB • Electronics • Digital photography • Computer programming • Computer graphics • Web site design Language and literature • Learn a language o French/ Italian/ Spanish/ Mandarin/ Welsh/ Gaelic/ Latin/ Greek/ German/ Arabic/ Russian /Bulgarian • Join a literature group • French literature • Creative writing • Lip reading • Sign language Other • Astronomy • Origami • Magic • Drama • Join a local operatic society • Scrap booking • bonsai trees • bird watching • model airplanes • building birdhouses • football • hockey • Free climbing • snail keeping • Surfing • body boarding • drawing
• Family History • Local history • Trace the history of your house • Stone circles • Discovering Ley Lines • Restore old photographs Sport • Scuba diving • High Diving
• Judo • Tae Kwon Do • Orienteerig • Hill Walking • Trampolining Health and personal development • Alexander Technique • Yoga • Pilates • Reiki • Massage • Belly dancing • Line dancing • Reflexology • Aromatherapy • Reading • Fishing • Gardening • Sports • Exercise • Movies • Computer-related activities • Music and even
Danish schnapps recipes!
Well you can! You may not realize it but in all likelihood you have with the new all the resources to create an ongoing stream of passive income and the same time you can pursue what you love doing. A few of the topics above are hyperlink - click on them to see examples of people who making money from their hobby. The secret is to take what you know and put it online. Most people are totally intimidated by the concept of going online and creating an online business. Here's a simple and easy way to do it. Let's get started... Because you do know stuff other people don't... things people would pay to know. You might have learned it "on the job" or through your hobby . There's a good chance that you don't even realize what you know. It's often right under your nose. But, as you will see, everyone is an expert about something. For now, let's assume that you have a rather unusual area of expertise. Here's a real concrete, non-Web-marketing, example that will succeed... Let's assume that you love working with concrete and it is your hobby. Here are a few ideas and niches you could explore. Concrete statues. Concrete painting. Decorative concrete. Concrete in the garden. Repairing concrete. The various types of concrete. Hand trowels. Things to do with cement blocks. Concrete trade shows. Concrete and swimming pools. Concrete molds. Cleaning concrete. Ready mixed concrete. Concrete countertops. Anyway, let's say that you decide to create a theme-based site that is all about concrete. Your home page explains how your site is THE site for everything concrete, from structural to aesthetic. The idea would be to create a web site around this specific theme or hobby. On the website you would have a multitude of topics as well as links to... • Books about the topic (ex., concrete statues if that's what the page was about) • A garden supplier for concrete molds, trowels, etc. • Naturally, a concrete supplier! • And best of all... you can offer consulting services which can be sold globally. See what's happening? By writing about a niche that you know and love, the content is easy. By providing great content about your hobby, you PREsell your reader, increasing your click through (traffic to your merchants) and your Conversion Rate (sales). And by selling a service, adding Google ads, and diversifying your affiliate programs among several related and excellent merchants, you develop multiple streams of income from one site. This is the way to go! OK, second example coming up from a different angle... John A. Smith is a passionate lover of all things concrete, and owner of "Smith's Concrete Repair Service." Mr. Smith's company repairs foundations, retaining walls, driveways, statues, swimming pools -- heck, if it's concrete and it's busted, he'll fix it! The first thing of note is this... Smith's "Concrete Repair Service" is a locally-based service, but Mr. Smith has great vision. He builds a Web site that appeals to both local and global interests. How?... 1) His well-written concrete-related articles provide a valuable information resource for both local and global visitors, as well as providing the foundation for a tightly themed Web site -- to which the SEs just love sending traffic! And who can argue with more traffic? 2) Local visitors (who are not currently clients) come to trust Mr. Smith as he demonstrates over and over again through his articles, and his e-zine, two very appealing attributes -- his unwavering commitment to the "putting-the-needs-of-the-customer-first" philosophy and the breadth of his knowledge pertaining to all things concrete. Before long, he becomes established in their minds as "The Concrete Man." When these local prospects need a concrete repairman, guess who they're going to call?
3) Local visitors come to recognize Mr. Smith as more than "some guy with a concrete repair service." Thanks to the bio ("About Us") page, they learn he's a dedicated father, an active member of the community, and a little league coach, as well as being the owner of a company. 4) Global (and local) visitors produce a secondary income stream. Mr. Smith can refer these surfers to merchant-partners (and their products) that he represents (i.e., books about landscape design, a retailer of concrete statues, a garden supplier for concrete molds, trowels, etc., etc.,). And, of course, he could sell e-books, consulting services, etc., globally. Do you see what's happening here? Not only is Mr. Smith PREselling "Smith's Concrete Repair Service" in the best possible fashion, he is generating another profitable income stream from his hobby! Lets take a look at a couple of case studies. First we have a tennis instructor who converted his passion for tennis into a stream of cash.
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