TURNING YOUR HOBBY TO YOUR MONEY.

By Godwin Jimmy
Founder and CEO of REAL IDEAS ENTERPRISE

Every person desire to make cool cash without breaking a sweet, but in the world of today that is mostly not happening. Some have to do jobs they hate just to make that extra cash and keep going. Statistic from Forbes shows that “Unhappy Employees Outnumber Happy Ones by Two to One Worldwide (October 2013)”.

So how do you make that extra box from your comfort zone?

Every human being has a hobby; something that adds that sparkles to your life and makes your happy. Some of these hobbies can be monetized on the long run as long as you understand the “HOW” of monetizing those hobbies. Without further ado, I’ll move to the “HOW” of monetizing those hobbies.

1.       Understanding Your Potentials:

You must learn to view every passion as a gift or potential; some people are passionate in writing, some in singing, and some in swimming, others in talking. Your view about those hobbies must change and your must begin to view them as potentials.

2.       Articulate Those Potentials:

The next step is penning down those potential, those thing you can do even if you are paid or rewarded. By penning them down it becomes easy to understand which and which can be monetized. And those that are not easily monetized can be ruled out of the list.

Then you can decide which you do best and which is more comfortable for you as an individual.

3.       Improve On It:

It is not just enough to pen down you potentials, you must now work on yourself to improve on it. You need to start taking classes and training to improve that potential in order to stand out in the crowd. Read books, watch videos and attend seminar on developing that potential, also conductor individual research to improve you.

4.       Marketing It

This is one complex part for some people; the inability to present their money making ideas to the world. Look for a problem that potential of yours can solve or an innovation it can bring, also tell people about it and find out how it can help people grow or benefit from that hobby.

"One of the principles of making money is not focus on money but on the value you can add to the society at large." -GODWIN JIMMY