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Side Hustle School

#2492 - Q&A: “Will my online course cannibalize my freelancing biz?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Diversification is key to financial stability, but could it harm your primary income source? In this episode, a listener seeks help balancing freelancing with an online course offering. Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week. Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Email: [email protected] Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions Connect on Twitter: @chrisguillebeau Connect on Instagram: @193countries Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I've been hearing from a lot of freelancers recently, shout out to everybody who is doing

0:14.5

freelance service work, and let's see, recently we talked about invoicing, we talked about

0:19.5

some tax advice.

0:21.1

Today, interesting angle, someone's wondering if their online course, the online course

0:26.2

that they want to make, is going to cannibalize the freelancing biz.

0:31.0

So with an online course, you're often trying to educate people, train people specifically

0:36.0

to do something perhaps that you might have done for them otherwise.

0:40.1

At least that's what we've got here.

0:42.3

This is Sarah from Boston.

0:44.1

She's trying to figure out, okay, I've got this course coming up.

0:46.7

I love the idea of having passive income, but I also have a branding design freelance

0:50.8

business, which is how I've made my money, or at least my side hustle money, maybe full-time

0:55.8

business and not sure for the past few years.

0:58.6

So how can I do this in a way that actually advances my interests instead of constraining

1:03.4

or limiting them?

1:04.8

So I love it.

1:05.8

Let's look at it.

1:06.8

Stick around.

1:07.8

After the break, we're going to explore how to diversify without deluding your primary

1:11.0

hustle, or it could be as a means of evolution, but the point is, how do you do it in a way

1:15.8

that doesn't negatively impact you?

1:18.2

Good question.

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