Make Money From Your Hobbies: Start a Business From Your Hobby

Hobbies are spare time activities which you do not for money or other gains but the sheer pleasure of doing it.

What if we could make money from our hobbies? I mean not as a vocation but as a side hustle.

Let say you are passionate about playing guitar, but you don’t have a desire to build your career as a guitar player. What if you could earn by playing guitar in your spare time? Can you actually make money from your hobby of guitar playing?

Well, you can. You can either create a youtube video where you are playing cool music or publish a tutorial video. You can make money from youtube videos. Or, perhaps you can teach neighborhood kids how to play guitar. If gardening is your hobby, you can make money from gardening. There are unlimited possibilities.

How to Make Money as a Hobbyist Photographer?

Hobbyist Photographer is not someone who is into photography to make money, instead, he is trying his hand son photography only for fund and pleasure. What if you as a hobbyist photographer could make some cool cash?

If you own a professional DSLR camera, if you have photography skills, and if you are passionate about photography, you can turn your photography hobby into money-making activity.

Here are some ideas that can help you get started.

You can sell photographs on stock photography websites or digital photography marketplaces.

You can write tutorials and publish them on blogs or create tutorial videos.

You can work as a freelance photographer.

You can provide your services in the events in your neighborhood (wedding anniversary of your neighbors) or your family events (your cousin’s wedding, for example), etc.

How to Make Money as a Traveller

If traveling is your hobby, you must be thinking that you are nurturing a costly hobby (traveling is costly, even costlier is when you travel to a foreign country). However, if you try, you can earn money as a traveler and not only recover your traveling expenses but even earn profits. So, how do you do it? How do you make money as a traveler?

Start as a travel blogger

You can capture pictures, record the important details of the places you visit, and publish a blog post with pictures and a travel guide. Travel blogs can be really popular.

Become a travel vlogger

Vlogging is even better than blogging. During your travel, shoot a lot of videos and publish these videos on youtube.

Write a book

You can write a book about your travel.

How to Start an Online Education Business

Starting an Online Education Business is another way to earn from your hobby. You can start teaching what you are good at and make money online. For instance, if you are good at candle-making, you can create a candle-making tutorial and sell the tutorials. If you can bake, you can create a bakery course and sell your course. There are numerous such ideas.

Online learning is growing rapidly because it is cheaper than traditional classroom education. For a lot of people tailor-made courses are better than attending college for 4 years to acquire a Bachelors’ Degree. The market for online education is huge

If you are a teacher or an educator, you can easily create your own online education business. Here are a few options for your online education business

eLearning Website

eLearning Mobile App

eLearning Marketplaces

YouTube

Zoom Classroom

How to start your online education business?

Create a course that involves writing course materials, creating videos, and podcasts. Publish the course on your website, app, learning marketplaces like udemy, or youtube. If you want to use zoom to offer your teaching services, you can do so by first inviting people to enroll for the course and then giving the lectures.