I am also such a person who likes to make money. I like studying sideline very much. I have studied all kinds of sideline businesses since I was a child, and I have to learn everything I can try.
As a result, I have a lot of sideline experience. What kind of experience is it to have a variety of sideline businesses? That's probably the feeling of increasing income, improving yourself and expanding your knowledge.
My sideline started in the summer vacation after I graduated from primary school. I began to try to do sideline business in the sixth grade. It was summer vacation, and I just graduated from primary school and had nothing to do, so I went to some small toy factories to do outsourced manual work. The job is very simple, that is, I put two parts together and trim the corners of the parts.
When I'm done, I'll take it back to the factory for weighing and counting. I was also very grateful to the manufacturer for not looking down on me because I was a child. Every time it is weighed, it is full. In this way, I earned more than 200 yuan in bits and pieces, which was already a huge sum for me at that time.
After experiencing the happiness of making money, I prefer the feeling of part-time job. I go to find a part-time job every winter and summer vacation, worked as a waiter, taught children to skate, sold tea, worked in WeChat business, worked as a tutor, and even worked in a factory.
Of course, these can only be considered part-time, not sideline. My real sideline career began after I went to college.
How to dig a sideline? My undergraduate major is design. I have learned a lot of professional knowledge in advance in the first semester, thinking about making money on my own.
My method is very successful. First of all, I slowly went deep from low to high. From a few dollars at the beginning to hundreds of thousands later, I succeeded in becoming a person who can support myself.
You may ask: how did you get started and how did you find a sideline circle that suits you from the beginning?
I share my introductory process with you, hoping to help you at a loss.
First of all, the first step is to determine what skills and strengths you have. If not, what skills do you want to learn first? Only when you have a skill can you make the next move.
Take me for example. I started with my professional design. I added a lot of QQ groups at the beginning. As long as I search for the corresponding name, many related groups will appear.
At this time, you need to learn to distinguish which groups are useless water groups and which groups are really billing. Under normal circumstances, the orders in this order group are all changed hands, and the unit price is extremely low.
But at the beginning, we need to be calm and willing to spend a lot of time to accumulate experience. Many people may think that 8 yuan for a poster is not enough for electricity. But only if you have patience and accumulated your own portfolio, will you get a stepping stone to upgrade.
Step two, you have some works that can be photographed. You can take them to Taobao's customer service and ask the other party if they accept designers.
There may be only one store in ten stores, but the price of Taobao is still very low, but it is definitely higher than the unit price of Q group changing hands many times.
After you continue to hone for a period of time, you will have a more beautiful combination, and some customers will seek your cooperation privately. At this time, you have accumulated your own customers.
The third step, you need to leave Taobao, leave the third-party mode, cast your own network on major platforms, and continue to maintain the old customers in the middle. Here, I really stepped into a circle.
Some big cows will have the fourth step, which is to accumulate a large number of fans on different platforms, and then there will be greater cooperation. It will also be more famous in different cooperation.
It is in this step-by-step rhythm that I completed the three-step exploration. As for the fourth step, the future can be expected.
After learning how to dig a sideline, if you want to have many sideline, you need to learn how to derive more sideline from one sideline.
Or take me as an example.
After I become a qualified designer, I will also meet other needs of customers on the way to take orders.
Client A wants you to make a picture album for it and write the copy well. What are you doing at this time?
You don't have to learn, but you must learn. The same is true for other needs.
That's what I did. In some cooperation, I learned to write copywriting, cut videos, draw pictures, be a model and so on.
In these processes, because of my study, I also learned to write articles, and I was dug by the editor to write stories on the web page. I also received many manuscripts and video clip lists. Electronic drawing is even weaker than design and tends to become my main sideline.
But here, there will be a problem, people's energy is limited, and too many sideline businesses are not a good thing, which will occupy most of their lives.
At this time, we need to make a choice.
Choose a sideline that you like and don't conflict with, circle a range, and then continue to explore in this circle.
Take me for example. After the third step of my design, I became too busy. I found that I prefer painting and writing in these processes. I resolutely gave up ghostwriting, editing, modeling and so on. Even the design only retains a small part of high-quality cooperation.
I decided to focus on painting and occasionally write a few stories, which is a kind of self-expression.
I have devoted myself to deep excavation in painting.
With more cooperation, more customers and more circles will be contacted. After receiving the manuscript of the publishing bookstore, the film and television company signed the manuscript of the confidentiality agreement, and later received the manuscript of the blind box design of a studio.
I am looking for interest in deep sideline circles, but I am in contact with more than these circles.
I have received most of the manuscripts from the circles that have the demand for manuscripts on the Internet. After I have a certain understanding of the corresponding circles, I will be subjectively interested in a circle.
This is a good sign to further explore the breadth in the depth of the side coil, because if you like it and are interested, it may drive your action, and there will always be some gains for the love of more production.
Similar to the doll circle, after receiving a doll manuscript, I received several sets of doll clothes one after another, and my kind guest sister also sent me output dolls. I like this circle again. I like raising babies. When there is an opportunity in the future, I also want to try to produce dolls and baby clothes myself, and even want to open a baby clothing store myself.
Similar to chapter circle, I mainly draw original chapters, and I like to draw many ideas into objects. Because I have my own favorite animation circle and want to make some contributions to the development of the circle, I made some badges myself to let more people know my favorite CP and that these paper men also have their own strength.
The process of study and hard work is always boring, and what I have been supporting is probably an indomitable spirit and love for what I do.
Interest is always the best teacher, do what you like, feel happiness and a sense of accomplishment in it, extend all kinds of things in these things, and like more new things. Then we can do more, and there are more places to develop sideline business.
What is the experience of having many sideline businesses? You won't know until you experience it yourself.
I hope my experience can inspire you, and I wish you all an early success!