It is a science to make a lot of money by doing side jobs.
Editor’s note: This article comes from WeChat public account “Vitamin” (ID: Weixiaowei6) , author: flower niche, Zebian: CC.
To be honest, more and more friends around me have joined the sideline earning team.
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Someone arranges flowers at home after work;
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Someone does Taobao shopping;
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Some people do quotients;
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There are also people who work as media.
In the past, I thought that in the sideline, I just used my spare time to make a little money.
But recently chatting with a friend found that the sideline can still make money like this.
My friend told me that She used to pay for knowledge. Now she sells courses through distribution. She earns more than a month’s tuition and can easily achieve 15,000+ income in sideline business.
There is a popular EQ course. She sold 200 copies and made 8,000 yuan in a single transaction.
I was stunned then.
I admit that it is a limitation of my horizons that has caused me to underestimate the monetization ability of the sideline industry;
But at the same time, I was thinking about a problem:
Why do these people make side jobs and make so much money?
Today in this article, I want to talk to you about 3 methodologies for making money in a sideline.
People who know how to make money, has long-term thinking
I find that there are many people in the sideline who are anxious about time. I always feel that I don’t have enough time in a day. I wish I could make money every minute and every second.
I was in Shenzhen a few days ago, and I took a taxi back to the hotel at 11 pm. I thought there were no more cars, but the results were unexpected.
The driver on the car also explained to me: “Most of the people who come out at night to make money for online car hire are people who work during the day.”
Like this driver boss, he works in an accounting office during the day, works as a driver at night, and has his own micro shop.
He said:
People who work in first-tier cities like Shenzhen have to race against time every day, because the cost of living is there, you can’t help it.
I can only seize all available time and make more money.
This led me to a problem: When many people are engaged in sideline business, they only see the total income and ignore the concept of “hourly salary.”
But to be honest, hourly wages are more important.
You can calculate what your monthly salary is, work a few hours a day, and then calculate the hourly salary.
For example, you do HR, 9,000 yuan per month, work 8 hours a day, excluding weekends, the salary is about 51 yuan per hour.
So, please use the same method to calculate the hourly salary of your sideline.
If the hourly salary in the sideline is less than that in the mainline, do you think about it, is it still worth it?
I believe most people will find it uneconomical.
If there is still room for rising, commissions and bonuses in the main business, it is even less worthwhile.
Some people even earn hundreds of dollars in a sideline, but their main business is being laid off. That is really picking up sesame seeds and throwing watermelon.
Yes, You should invest your time in a more cost-effective sideline.
Then the question arises, what is a more cost-effective sideline?
I think it is a sideline that has long-term value and can produce a “complex interest effect.”
I started writing the public account in November last year. To tell the truth, I didn’t make much money. Fortunately, I gained a more precious growth experience than money.
A year ago, I worked step by step in the system, holding a dead salary every month, and living a life of mixed eating and waiting for death.
Some colleagues around me have been working in the unit for more than ten years. Although wages and benefits are relatively stable, it is conceivable that the days to come will be like that.
But I’m still so young, I’m not reconciled.
So I went to find a sideline on the Internet to do it. When I saw someone enter the million by writing a public number, my heart was poked hard.
After that, I used my spare time to write, and wrote 83 original articles intermittently, some of which were also reprinted by the public account of millions of fans.
Through writing, I got acquainted with millions of entrepreneurial entrepreneurs, and I really felt one thing in the communication with them:
It doesn’t matter how much money you make at the moment, it only matters if you get more possibilities to make money.
Public account writing is a sideline, yes. But those who make money see it as a business channel between readers and authors.
The commercial value brought by this channel is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
My colleagues often tell me, what’s the use of writing your public account so hard? Reading so little and not making money, don’t send express delivery to work-it’s the end of the day!
I just want to respond to him: Man does not desire things that do not exist in his world.
People who have never eaten fish will not desire the taste of fish; people who have not seen the future commercial value generated by links will not think of the possibility of hundreds of readings being magnified by 10 times.
People who only look at the money to do sideline business earn the current money, which can indeed satisfy the current hunger;
Using long-term thinking to engage in sideline business will earn future money.
Satisfied is the hunger for explosive growth in the future.
Long-term thinking is not enough. You must focus.
In fact, in the real world, there are still many people who have long-term thinking and know that they have to make a long-term profit.
But the reality is that few people do it.
I have a friend who has many side jobs: translating, doing PPT, leading a group, writing copywriting.
In fact, any one who can do it for a long time can make considerable money.
But why not?
Because he does everything and lacks focus.
American career development expert David Pollard mentions a “professional sweet zone” model in his book “Finding a Career Sweet Zone.”
The red part in the picture Sweet Spot (the best hit spot), the original meaning is to baseball players to hit the ball to the most comfortable and effective area.
It is also used in the sideline, you have to find the meeting point of the three.
As I said before, you have to make a sideline with long-term value, but if you are not good at it, you will do it hard; if you don’t like it, you will lack passion.
Take Papi Sauce, as we all know, because she made a short video, she became “the first online influencer in the universe.”
But her popularity is inseparable from her accumulated skills in the graduate studies of the director of the Chinese Theatre, and her love of video and years of deep cultivation in this field.
Focusing on areas you like, excel at, and have a sense of value is a secret weapon for many people to make money in sideline businesses.
Xue Zhaofeng is another iconic figure who makes a lot of money by sideline.
In his early years, he worked at Peking University’s National Academy of Development. He became famous by writing a column on the APP and selling more than 400,000 copies. He also became popular because of his popularity.
He mentioned a point in a strange story: Everyone, every time, is working for his resume.
He said:
When making dumplings, if there is more flour, the meat is more expensive;
Where there are many boys, girls are expensive;
In capital-intensive areas, the value of labor is high.
This proves one thing: The more differentiated work is, the more valuable it is.
Xue Zhaofeng’s own sideline is the same, Luo Zhenyu said, “He is one of the few economists who can really explain his words.”
It’s true that focusing on “telling boring economics lessons easily” is enough.
With a reproducible money-making model, is more important than focus
Some people say that I focus on teaching online but I do n’t make much money.
In the past, when knowledge payment had not prevailed, as long as you made the course, there was a high probability that it could sell fire.
But now, the knowledge payment market is flooding with a large number of competitors, and many vertical craftsmen also share a share with you. When you become less scarce, you will naturally make less money.
For a sideline business, there are three ways to sell time to make money.
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The first is a single sale time;
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The second is repeat sales time;
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At the highest level, cross-border sales time.
A person who sells for a single time can only earn one share of his time.
For example, if you are a salesperson, you sell insurance with others on WeChat, and it takes an hour to complete the transaction. In that hour, you can only get one transaction.
People who repeat sales time can earn long-term income over time.
It’s like the online lecturer mentioned above, who carefully polishes a course and can lay it on the Internet to make money.
What does cross-border sales time mean?
I’ll give you an example. Qiu Chen, Qihua’s debater, I believe you know.
She claims to be: “Bottom line debaters and unreliable journalists, editors and halfway monk designs, unmotivated creatives and slippers managers.”
So many slash titles, do you know how she makes money?
If you look closely, you will find that these different occupations are actually derived from the combination of two core skills, “strong language skills” and “certain painting skills.”
Qiu Chen started to learn painting from junior high school. At the age of 21, she won the championship of the international college debate. It is no exaggeration to say that these two skills are her bottom-line money-making model.
She refined her own success model from these two aspects, and then applied it to other areas to achieve cross-border sales time.
Now Qiu Chen, Shang Qiyi said that debate can make money, design ppt can make money, polish a eloquence course, and make money.
If a single sale time is a point and a repeat sale time is a line, then cross-border sales time is a face.
The three models of making money are different. Of course, the benefits of making money also increase exponentially.
I have a friend who was also a lecturer in new media before, but when I set up my personal brand through writing, I will no longer lecture.
He developed his own method of building a personal brand, and then established a community to help people from all walks of life polish courses, establish a personal brand, and display it in his 5,000-person circle of friends. All income can be shared.
Before, he earned income from his lecture resources. Now he relies on the resources around him to earn income.
So, cross-border sales time can be cross-boundary from its own resources, or to other people’s resources.
The premise is that you have a low-level money-making model for others to reference and copy.
I hope that the above will be helpful to you who are still thinking about what sideline you are doing, and why you are not making money in any sideline yourself.
Remember: Although the sideline is just needed, the sideline that does not earn higher hourly wages and higher potential energy is just self-consumption.
小 维 の 叨 逼 叨:
My son knows the long-term nature of sideline business. Recently, he had a side job to help his art class teacher set up admissions (I suddenly realized that the winter vacation is really coming!). The return of one day is two bottles of Yakult, which I really think is a big loss. But he said to me: But when the teacher set up a stand alone, I tutored me to draw. Mom, do you think, how much do you pay for a class? Still 1 to 1! … Oh, this kid is so smart! biological.
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