This article is also the last one in my whole series. I'll talk about how to start a sideline life and keep the cash flow flowing.
After working for a few years, on the one hand, we need more time for our families when we get married, on the other hand, the real estate momentum weakened at that time, and the overall income of the production department was not as good as before. It was an expedient measure to transfer from technical posts to administrative posts. Since there is no hope of promotion because of money and freedom, it is better to use the extra time to broaden my career, so I began to plan a sideline and look for other sources of cash flow besides salary and wealth management, and later directly invested in an education company.
No matter how small an individual is, there is also a mode of making money. As an office worker, he usually develops sideline business in three directions: specialty, hobby and his own resources.
First of all, I have special skills: I have two good sisters. One is a junior high school English teacher who usually works as an English teaching assistant and translator. The other is good at designing and doing the front-end of the Internet. In addition to receiving front-end projects in his spare time, he will also take photos with friends on weekends. You can list your majors and skills one by one, and then compare them one by one, and choose one that is better than the average person to expand your part-time job. Because you are good at it, it is not too difficult to do it, and the cost performance is relatively high.
Special skills can develop sideline from two aspects, one is to take projects in spare time, the other is to provide services through valuable information, personal experience and professional knowledge, forming an information gap of low buying and high selling.
Taking projects in spare time is the most popular sideline: some friends who are good at software development, Logo UI design, copywriting planning, film and television post-production and other skills can choose to take outsourcing projects on Witkey websites such as Pig Bajie. Com, Witkey China, Yipin Witkey; Friends who specialize in IT can search the professional Internet software outsourcing service platforms such as Yunwalker, Mashi and Jiefang to see if there are any suitable projects. Some friends are gifted at languages and are good at English, small languages and so on. Then you can take the translation job on websites such as Fisherman and Ali Translation. If the game is played smoothly, it can help those who want high-end equipment but have no time to do it. 58 City, Yipin Witkey and China Online Game Service Network all have modules for training. Driving well is also a skill. In addition to Didi and Didi's list, you can also try to do driving sparring, e-driving, Didi driving, driving school one-stop sparring, 58 sparring and so on. I have met two part-time car owners, one is mainly engaged in insurance, and the other runs a fitness club. Both of them said that doing part-time jobs is not only to earn some money, but more importantly, they can take this opportunity to meet customers and expand their business. In short, if you have any skills, you can search for part-time jobs and add relevant keywords. With this idea, you will definitely find a part-time website or APP that suits you to make money.
In addition to taking projects in my spare time, there is also a way to realize special skills, that is, using information to buy low and sell high. If you have in-depth accumulation in a certain field, professional knowledge or experience, and are good at systematically summarizing these knowledge and experience, then you can completely package them into a product, such as online courses, knowledge payment, paid questions and answers, and so on. Taobao University, Netease Cloud Classroom, Tencent Classroom and Baidu Pass Class are all good online course websites. For example, if you are good at PPT, you can record PPT video courses, upload them to these websites, and make your own course pricing. If you are particularly good at IT, you can try massive open online courses college, geek college, wheat college and so on. If you are a teacher, you can choose who to study with in your spare time. There is also a K 12 education module in Baidu Biography Class, which can also make money by helping students answer questions on tutors and wenti birds. Similarly, medical friends can answer questions or give lectures on Dr. Lilac and Dr. Chunyu. By the way, doctors, teachers, lawyers and other professions, it is best to try again when opening up sideline business, so as not to cause unnecessary disputes.
Then there are hobbies: some people will say, I have neither skills nor resources, so I can't do sideline business? Of course not. You can start with hobbies. My current colleague loves baking. At first, she just baked it for her husband and children at home. Later, on the Mid-Autumn Festival, she made moon cakes for everyone around her. Everyone thought it was delicious, so she started selling her own baked cakes on WeChat. There is also a friend who makes Ejiao cakes. He wanted to eat it himself. Later, friends around me liked to do sideline business through their circle of friends. Because of hygiene and sufficient materials, word-of-mouth communication is getting better and better. Some people will say that although I am interested in something, I am not good at it. What should I do? I will tell you three words: "Go and learn". I know a young lady who works as a full-time cashier in an enterprise. Because she likes makeup, she signed up for a training class and worked part-time as a bride and makeup on weekends. With the word of mouth from the clients she knows, she is very busy now, and many people can't make an appointment with her. You see, this young lady didn't have good skills and resources, but through hard study and practice, she not only turned her hobbies into skills, but also gained more and more rich network resources. Everything depends on whether you want to change and act. If you always dislike money, don't want to study, or go home in the late stage of lazy cancer, you will probably be poor in this life.
Finally, it is your own resources: this resource can be a source of goods, a flow, a personal relationship and so on. Let's start with the source of goods. Selling products with goods has a unique advantage. Generally, it starts with e-commerce and WeChat business. At present, the three most mainstream e-commerce platforms are still Taobao, JD.COM and Pinduoduo. Relatively speaking, Pinduoduo has a lower threshold and traffic support, which is more suitable for newcomers. Followed by traffic. Everyone knows the power of traffic. With traffic, it can be achieved. Not only can you sell your own products, but you can also cooperate with brand partners to earn advertising fees and distribute them together. Traffic is also a huge resource, so we must make good use of it.
My college classmates have a paper factory at home, and the primary source of goods has a price advantage, which can better control the product quality and after-sales service. She tried e-commerce while studying, and now she has developed from a sideline to a main business. Let me add one more sentence here. If you didn't accumulate particularly useful resources in your family and student days, don't ignore full-time work at this stage. Going to work is also an excellent way to get resources. For example, the customers, suppliers and partners you contact in your daily work are all good resources, and sometimes time is also a kind of resource. Personally, I have a great advantage in my current job: stable work, harmonious interpersonal relationship, and working hours allow me to do sideline work, which makes full use of this advantage.
Well, writing here, I put my six-year experience in saving money back and output the above ten items, talked about many practical methods and skills, and introduced many software apps, but after all, the technology and products will be constantly updated. Maybe some products I mentioned will be taken off the shelves soon, and some preferential activities will be closed, but the underlying logic of how to make money, how to manage money and how to save money remains unchanged. What you have to do is to build a suitable one according to your own ideas, instead of following the gourd painting gourd ladle. In practice, I also hope that you can do the following two things:
The first is to maintain continuous learning ability. One thing I have been insisting on all these years is to keep learning. At the beginning, I read a lot of miscellaneous books and took various online courses, such as marketing copywriting, financial investment and time management. I felt that all the good things were for learning. As time goes by, more and more notes are recorded and more and more materials are collected. I have learned a lot, but I can't remember anything when I actually use it. Later, I overheard a short lecture, in which I said that I should learn to build my own knowledge framework and connect all the knowledge. Looking back at myself, it turns out that the things I typed before were too messy, like headless flies, and I felt "learned, never learned". I began to sort out scattered knowledge, set up a personal knowledge framework, put any new knowledge into the corresponding framework, and constantly optimize and improve it. This is a step-by-step process. With continuous learning, the framework will become richer and richer. It is closely related to the ability to make money in the future. This is the source of the cognitive gap between people. This thing is the core competitiveness. No matter what happens around me, it will always be my thing, something that others can't take away.
The second is to learn to actively search and tap more cash flow. No matter what you do, you can't do without search. Some small ways to save money are found by yourself and friends around you, and some are learned by active search. Poor access to information and cognitive ability, in addition to great contacts, is also achieved through continuous active search and learning.
You are not chasing millions alone, because I am running, too.