One option is to try and monetize a hobby you want to do anyway. I’ve just started to do this with my woodworking/cnc/making hobby. I make art piece wordclocks

One option is to try and monetize a hobby you want to do anyway. I’ve just started to do this with my woodworking/cnc/making hobby. I make art piece wordclocks[0]. I’ve Sold a few with almost no marketing effort. My goal is to sell two per month. Part of my marketing effort is improving visibility on Etsy and so I’ve started selling much less expensive items on Etsy too[1]. They are not so much for the revenue as for the traffic, ratings, and learning how to best use Etsy. These secondary products are all based on things I’ve designed and made for/with my young kids. Two observations: - I’ve really enjoyed the path of developing better processes of how to fabricate things more efficiently - I’ve really enjoyed getting my kids involved with making. It’s fun to observe them thinking about how to make stuff and working with them to figure things out (they are 3 and 6). By monetizing my hobby I can also write off tools I’d like to have. Note that I started pretty low cost using tools at my local makerspace[2]. [0] http://www.finewordclocks.com http://www.finewordclocks.com [1] http://www.etsy.com/shop/FineWordclocks http://www.etsy.com/shop/FineWordclocks [2] http://www.as220.org http://www.as220.org