289: How to Make $200 an Hour Playing with Kids: An Intro to After School Programs

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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May Najafabadi earned $12,000 in 8 weeks -- working just 1 hour a day. Her side hustle? After school enrichment classes teaching crafts and jewelry making. As a long-time entrepreneur in the e-commerce space, May was used to enrolling her son in these classes to buy herself an extra hour in the afternoons. Over the last couple years though, she wanted to diversify her income away from Amazon and wondered if she could be the one selling those classes instead. May chose arts and crafts, a subject her son enjoyed in first grade but didn’t see available for second grade and above. With no experience working with crafts or teaching children May jumped right in with a lunchtime demonstration and handing out flyers to the kids. “The kids went crazy, they just loved the crafts. It was a big hit,” May said. With her hopes set on 6 or more kids for that first class, May had 18 sign up at $120 each. She soon expanded to larger schools, with larger groups of kids, and hired helpers. She's released a book, a training course, and hosts birthday parties and summer camps, and has hopes of franchising her model. Tune in to hear how May has grown her after school class business and how you may be able to borrow this creative side hustle idea. Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: How to Make $200 an Hour Playing with Kids: An Intro to After School Programs

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0:00.0	Side Houseel Show 289, 200 bucks an hour with after school programs.
0:06.6	What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here?
0:08.3	Welcome to the Side Hustle show because business ideas are everywhere.
0:12.4	In fact, for May, Nagefabody, apologies on the pronunciation there,
0:16.2	her latest business idea came from her son, although kind of in a roundabout way.
0:20.2	May's been an entrepreneur for quite a while in the e-commerce space selling
0:24.5	imported products on Amazon and eBay and to buy herself more time to work on that
0:28.6	business she'd sometimes enroll her son in after-school enrichment programs at his school.
0:34.0	These are on-campus programs usually at elementary schools where kids can stick around for another hour or so to learn extra science or basketball or music or whatever. The kids love them, the parents love
0:44.8	them and the private vendors who put them on and sold them of course love them too. And that's
0:50.4	when the gears started turning for May for an hour a day in the afternoons
0:54.8	instead of buying that time from someone else maybe she should be the one selling it
0:58.8	and diversify her income away from Amazon. Over a recent eight-week period, May's new side hustle,
1:04.5	which she writes about at creative kids crafts.com,
1:08.2	it's kids with the Z crafts with an S,
1:10.1	brought in 12,000 bucks.
1:11.7	Not bad for an hour or two a day, right? So stick around to hear how she got started,
1:15.5	how she's priced and sold her program, and how she's growing this business well beyond just herself.
1:20.4	Notes and links for this one, plus a free PDF highlight reel you can download with all of May's top tips from the call are at
1:25.9	side hustle nation.com slash May. And before we dive in, let me take a moment to thank today's
1:32.2	sponsor Fresh Books.com.
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