Ep. 266: How To Turn Your Hobby Into A Business

Sean: How do I know when it's possible for me to turn my hobby into a business? When there is a viable market. When they actually want to buy from you. When what they want to buy from you is something that you can source or produce. So speaking from one of the experiences that I have had, I turned my aquascaping hobby into a small micro-business. So I sell aquatic plants and livestock on the website, making the price very competitive by checking out what's in the market and it's doing quite well. It's doing quite well, I would say. Before I turned it into a business, I had an overflow of stock. And I know I'm going to have a weekly overflow of stock that I'm not going to use and I'm just going to throw away. So I decided to start the website so as not to throw away those plants and those fishes because they're overpopulating already. They're overgrowing the tanks that I have and it would be a waste. So instead of throwing them away, I put them for sale on the site. And I don't run ads. I don't want to oversell them. So I don't run any ads. It's just SEO. People search. They find the website. They add to cart, checkout, and we got a sale going for aquascape.ph. So for me, that's how I turned it into a business. I realized there's demand. And I realized that the competition is not really that great. They don't have their own website. They're not organized. And I figured that might be something that people would want to shop from, a really good website, good experience on mobile and desktop. And it just so happens that I have SEO-Hacker, and it's something that we can do. So there's my competitive advantage there. And we just shot at it, you know, gave it a shot and it's working pretty well. That's what I could say. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/leadershipstack Join our community and ask questions here: from.sean.si/discord Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadershipstack