#2492 - Q&A: “Will my online course cannibalize my freelancing biz?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K 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.
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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.
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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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