150: 5 Steps to Turn a Hobby Into a Business

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Three years ago, Bryn and her business partner Brooke had each made less $500 from their photography hobby -- far less than they'd spent on equipment. Fast forward to this year, and they shot more than a dozen weddings and booked top-line revenue in excess of $40,000. Listen in to hear what happened in between. Remember, every professional starts as an amateur, and there are parallels in this conversation I think will apply to any freelance service-based side hustle.

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0:00.0	Side Hustle Show 150.
0:02.4	Five steps to turn your hobby into a business.
0:05.2	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show.
0:08.8	Where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn their
0:11.8	side hustle dreams into reality.
0:14.0	Because your 9 to 5 may make you a living, but your 5 to 9 makes you alive.
0:19.0	And now your host, Nick Loper. Nick Loper.
0:24.0	All right, Merry Christmas.
0:28.0	Nick Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle Show.
0:30.0	Today's guest joins us by request by popular demand.
0:35.0	It's my favorite side hustler of all time with apologies of course to all the other guests who have shared awesome stories.
0:43.7	Of course, I'm talking by my beautiful bride, Bryn is here today.
0:47.8	And before we get into it, we have an announcement to make.
0:51.4	I am excited and excited slash terrified to say we have a new addition to the
0:57.6	side hustle family on the way coming next next month actually so about a month from now about a month from today we're
1:06.3	starting to be in the final countdown final free count mode so we thought hey we
1:10.7	better record this before there is a screaming baby in the background so
1:15.2	we're excited so it's a new adventure so Bryn is a mechanical engineer with an artistic
1:21.1	side today we're going to talk about five steps to turn a hobby into a business.
1:26.0	And of course, you know, to turn a hobby into a business starts with a hobby.
1:31.0	And as a couple of listeners pointed out after the episode I did with John
1:34.3	Rata, hey of course it helps if your hobby is something like app development or writing, you know, that's an easy
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