Turn Your Hobbies Into Profit! by Amanda Nauru Ryan

Let's see if this sounds familiar. You have a hobby that you enjoy doing very, very much. You're quite passionate about it. So you're willing to spend quite a substantial amount of money to finance this hobby of yours. You buy materials for your scrapbooks, purchase old coins for your collection, or get some new seedlings to plant in your expanding garden. You need to budget your expenses just right so you can have enough to fuel your passion. And often, your loved ones-spouse, parents, friends-simply can't understand why you'd want to "waste money" on this hobby of yours.

Sounds familiar?

Well you're not alone. And it always comes as a surprise to me that while so many people are willing to spend money on their hobbies, very few of them think about MAKING money from them. The very fact of the matter is that in this day and age, with the help of the great information technology that allows to you to get in contact with virtually anyone across the globe in an instant, you can generate profit from ANY hobby. There is literally a niche market for everything-every interest and every quirk. Using the internet, you can easily tap to these niche markets relatively easy.

So how do you turn your hobbies into profit? Well, let's simplify things a bit and group these various hobbies into three categories and see how you can make money from each.

The first group of hobbies includes those that involve "production." This would include, for example, scrapbooking, soap making, candle making and the likes. The way to profit from these hobbies is pretty straightforward: selling them. For many hobbyists, without them realizing it, they already have a client base. They've often made scrapbooks and soaps as gifts for friends and family. You can move from there to market your product. Instead of giving them as gifts, offer them to people for a price. Local fairs and shops often serve as the best starting points to introduce your wonderful products to the market.

One Catherine Failor started out as many soap makers did. She started making homemade soap in the late 1980s as presents for family and friends. Before long, she was experimenting with colors and scents and patterns and started selling her soap to gift shops and health food stores across the country. Within only a few years, Failor was pulling in about $250,000. Now mind you, this takes several years-this is not a get-rich-quick scheme-but people do get there.

The second group of hobbies includes collecting: rare coins, stamps, trading cards, etc. Avid collectors would be willing to spend huge amounts of money to get their hands on rare collectibles. This then, is one obvious way you can profit from your collection. You play the role of an investment broker: buy one item and resell them at a higher price. But another way you can make money from this hobby is by selling valuable information. With your knowledge on a particular collecting hobby, you can develop newsletters and electronic magazines that people can get by paying a subscription fee (again, the internet will make everything simple for you to do this) or you publish them for free and invite other businesses to put their ads on them. This would allow you to generate recurring revenue.

Finally, there are activity hobbies: sports, traveling, cooking-you name it. Again, you can profit from selling information to fellow hobbyists. And you don't even need to start your own newsletter or ezine; you can get paid for writing articles on them and sell them to ezine publishers. Or-and this has happened many times to many people-you can start your own blog and place Google ads on them.

These are just some of the more obvious ways you can turn your hobbies into profit. There are more ways out there if you're willing to look for them. That should be your first order of business: get as many information as you can. There are hundreds of thousands of people that make a very comfortable living from their hobby alone. Many more make significant second streams of revenue by turning their hobbies into profit. I should know; I've helped some of them set up their businesses. Now it's your turn to profit from your hobbies.

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Money Making Hobbies - Which Ones? by Steven Gillman

Which ones can be money making hobbies? A friend made a life-sized cow out of plywood once. He painted it, put it in the yard, and people started asing if he would sell it. He soon had a waiting list of customers for his plywood cows. With a profit of about fifty dollars each, he wasn't getting rich, but isn't making money with your hobby more fun than a job?

Money Making Hobbies - Two Approaches

The first approach is obvious: Look for ways to make money with your existing hobby or hobbies. What do you produce that other people might want? Do you collect dolls? You might produce a newsletter for other doll collectors, or buy and sell doll furniture.

The second approach is to think of all the hobbies you might take up that can generate a second income for you. When I found that I really enjoyed making walking sticks as a hobby, I sold more than a thousand dollars worth one summer. There are probably things you would enjoy doing that can make some money.

Get creative in your thinking. Look at the list of activities or hobbies below, and see if you can think of a way they can be used to make money. Do you like to travel? You might become a tour guide, or write articles for magazines.

Painting ... Crafts of all sorts ... Sewing ... Caring for animals ... Talking ... Playing with computers ... Traveling ... Rock Climbing ... Stamp Collecting ... backpacking

How To Make Money With ANY Hobby

In the past, you could argue that not all hobbies can be money making hobbies. This is no longer true. If you go to my sites, you'll notice the ads. I just copy and paste some code (no selling involved), and make a little bit everytime you click on one. In a matter of days, with almost no money, you can have a website up where you write about your favorite hobby, and collect for the advertising clicks.

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Hobbies Have Changed With Time by Janeal Mulaney

As a child, I remember our hobbies consisted of needlepoint, knitting, quilting, and crochet. Many of us in my era remember assembling around our fireplaces in the family room, as relatives played a board game. We called it family time. Another family hobby was to put puzzles together.

My family also called cooking a hobby, each Saturday morning after feeding the cattle and other animals, we would gather in the kitchen to bake bread, cinnamon rolls, biscuits and dinner buns for the up coming week. Sunday was also spent with our families; it was saved for church, outings and family visits.

During the week we went to school, came home did our homework, then started in on a quilt, sewing, needlepoint, we learned much throughout that time.

The older we became lessons of these fine arts slipped into another time. Music became a hobby along with seeing and spending time with friends. We cruised around with our friends hung out at the local spots, pool, bowling, movies, and racing soon would become our hobbies. In high school it was still cool to attend football, basketball, and baseball games. Dances, dates and roller-skating took over, the puzzles and the board games we use to play.

Times changed as we changed we grew into adults, no longer did we want to spend time with family, we felt the need to do our own thing with friends. After being an adult I realized some of those hobbies could be considered jobs, no longer did I make bread for fun, but to feed my family. I put my mind to sew dresses for my daughter and shirts for my sons. Were they hobbies, or simply a way of life and a need to know for my future?

Then came the computer age, and the game boy stage, my children found hobbies of their own. "Nintendo", who thought that one up? My husband and I bought our first Nintendo when our oldest was six, or seven, a year later I still couldn't work it, but all three of my children had mastered it in no time. Nintendo became the wave of hobbies, it took over board games, puzzles, and time spent with more then one other member of the family. No longer did we gather around the fire for nice quite family time. They gathered around the television to find out which one was better Mario or Luigi. Later came Nintendo 64, Playstation, Game boy, and cell phones.

They now use computers, and the hand eye coordination in their everyday jobs. So were their hobbies something they did for fun or were they something they did to also prepare them for their own futures? Only they can tell how they feel about all they learned as a child.

I had felt I missed not being able to introduce my children to all the hobbies I learned as a child, and still hoped one day they would want to learn some of the things I had been taught, but I also know that new avenues have been opened to them through the Internet, and games which I had never even dreamed about as a child.

The other thing I've noticed as they marry, and move out on their own, is they did learn many valuable things that I too had learned as a child. My oldest son does artwork on his computer, he plays a guitar, and he loves to work with wood. My youngest son wants to become a chef and still patches his own jeans. My daughter is great with numbers and she wants to become a mechanic, so all in all I think hobbies do live on just not the way we think they should.

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