Any one know about starting a business with teaching a skill?

Question

i have decided to start my own business in teaching quilting is this a good idea

Answer 1

Susanne Z just gave you a brilliant answer.

Here's why: affilliate programs (especially in "niche" areas--and quilting is considered a "niche" market) have hundreds of other like-minded marketer's who are constantly looking for new products to sell. This exponentially multiplies your marketing effort for the book---in other words--gives you hundreds of "salespeople" vs. you marketing alone.

Affiliates work best for you when they receive 20-30% of the sales price--so take that in consideration.

To expand the "starting a business" idea... (let's go the inexpensive route first)

if you open a shop (what we call a "brick-and-mortar business) there will be overhead, insurance, etc., and it will take a while to reach the "breakeven point"--the point at which it becomes profitable.

If you were to choose to do it online, it's less expensive and

timeline-to-profit is much sooner---and you could do it from home. And yes, you could still TEACH via of written e-courses or even better--video courses, in addition to writing

books.

There are two schools of thought regarding online business.

One is building a site. (inexpensive to expensive)

Another is creating a blog. (free to inexpensive)

If you are just starting out, it will be much simpler and less expensive to create a blog.

A simple Blog Platform that is super-easy to operate is BLOGGER. It is free---and you can get free hosting at Blogspot.com

With Blogger, you can still have readers sign up for your e-courses or newsletter, upload videos for your readers/students, and you can have them download your written material (either free material, or purchased from you--

earning you income).

There is more than likely someone within your family that could give you some feedback about blogging, since it is widely popular---someone in your family (or someone you know) blogs. Just ask around.

If you decide to write some reports or desire to write a book to sell online, here's an idea:

since most downloadable books, reports, papers, etc are created in PDF, you could do this yourself free if you download the latest version of OpenOffice (http://openoffice.org). OpenOffice works just like a Word document creator, except you can convert the document to PDF without purchasing the $400 Adobe Platform.

OpenOffice is free and simple to use.

Information is in high demand, especially in niche markets, so teaching via books or ecourses should work for you.

Just create a little book, offer it up to affiliate sales, sell it also from your blog.

Gaining experience through this will also set you up for later website efforts---but first, do it the inexpensive method (via blogging), then after you create income, invest in website avenues.

Check out the link Susanne Z mentioned, get the book in affiliate hands (also market it yourself), get your blog up and going....and NEVER give up! Keep learning and improving..

Yes, you have an outstanding idea there!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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you have to join some affiliate programs to do that.

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