How To Transform Your Talent Into A Money-Making Business
Emmanuel Nnaemeka
CIO
Never do for free what you can do for a fee. The truth is that we are all gifted with one talent or another. These talents that are embedded in us are those things we can do easily when others are finding it very difficult to do. It could be painting, playing soccer, chess game, painting, writing, pottery, dancing, solving mathematics with ease, architecture, cooking and baking, and so much more.
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The beauty of it all is that we all have gifts that we naturally excel at. Most times, we do them for fun or free. Unfortunately, many people aren’t earning a fee from these things they do for free.
According to Henry Ford, “if you make your talent your work, you will never have to work a day in your life.” Besides, our talents are meant to make us wealthy, just like it has made many soccer stars, singers, and even professionals. In this article, I am going to show you how to transform your talents into a money-spinning venture.
Assess Your Talents
As a person, there is every possibility that you are multi-talented. However, to achieve so much from your gifts, you have to identify the talents that you can transform into a money-spinning venture. Furthermore, if you are having a hard time identifying your talents, you might need to ask family and friends to help you with that. You can mail them, asking if they have identified some of your strengths. You can mail six to seven people. Select from the dominant identified talents. That is, if one of your strengths appeared in more than three or four places. You can as well do this by yourself by paying close attention to your strengths.
Spot Profitable Areas
After discovering your talents, the next step is to identify how they can be transformed into a solution, a product, or a service that can earn you an income. Alright, using myself as an example, I was able to identify my artistic skills and I began to tilt towards arts and crafts. Also, I discovered that I was very good with penmanship; I began to look for how to make money by designing cards for Valentine’s Day and Christmas seasons. After identification of talents, the next step is to identify your niche. All that is required is to be confident in your talents.
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Package Your Talents Into Solutions, Services, Or Products
After discovering your talents, create a business out of them. You can do this by identifying problems your talents can solve. If you are gifted in teaching mathematics with ease, you can start up an online tutorial class on Mathematics and Physics. There are a lot of people who are dummies in Maths. You can cash in on this and create a YouTube class. Furthermore, you can as well choose to work as an in-home tutor. All you need to do is to identify parents with kids who are finding it difficult to cope with maths. And you can also write a book that explains all the formulas in the simplest terms. If you are good with caregiving or you find it easy with housekeeping and taking care of people, you can choose your work as a nanny. All you need to do is to package your services. You can have your complimentary card, websites, and social media pages.
Create Opportunities By Marketing Yourself
Nothing happens in obscurity. It is very important that you market yourself and what you do to people. If you want to create a link between your talents and opportunities, endeavour to market yourself. For example, if you are a footballer, and you desire to play on the big stage, then you must go for screening, join an academy, a local club or link up with scouts. If you are a creative writer, then you need to join a writers’ community, go for workshops, seminars, and network with other talents. Also, you need to start a writing blog or write short stories on your social media platform, especially Facebook. The whole goal is to get the right opportunities that can take you to the next level.
Keep Improving On Your Talents
Another way to make money out of your talent is by improving daily. There are various ways to improve on your talents. As an artist, I spend approximately six hours learning new techniques on YouTube. Always narrow your focus on one talent and create expertise in it. You can develop your talents by reading about them, watching them on YouTube, or signing up for a physical class. You can also create an avenue for meeting industry leaders in your niche so that you can see how you can become a worthy ally.
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