Will Work for Fun: Three Simple Steps for Turning Any Hobby or Interest Into Cash
Will Work for Fun: Three Simple Steps for Turning Any Hobby or Interest Into Cash
Will Work for Fun presents a simple three-step process for turning your favorite hobby or interest into a reliable source of income. Why stay trapped in a job you hate, when you could turn your fun into your job? No matter what your interests are, Alan Bechtold will show you how to what you love into a real moneymaking career. Packed with stories, examples, exercises, and links to online resources, Will Work for Fun is the cure for another dull day at the office.
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4 Stars Really Good Book
I like this book. It opens your eyes to new ideas and things I never would have thought of. You should check it out.
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Will Work for Fun: Three Simple Steps for Turning Any Hobby or Interest Into Cash
This is not only fun to read due to Alan Bechtold’s unique
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5 Stars One of the best
Very well written, inspiring, encouraging, lots of great info and ideas. A great book for you if you want to do your own thing and get out of job slavery. Makes my personal “Top 5 Books of 2008″ list. Get this, read it, do it.
5 Stars Work for Fun: Not quite as simple as it says on the title, but definitely doable — and a worthy goal
I love this book. It’s very inspiring, and it provides an outstanding overview of one major aspect of the internet marketing field — from the perspective of someone who’s been in it for both fun and profit for longer than the internet even officially existed.
When Alan Bechtold says “Fun,” he means it. And he spends a good part of the book laying out the process of how to find the subject area that excites you that also provides you with a market interested in buying your products — eventually.
The idea is this: if you have fun doing what you’re doing, it’s not really work. And if there are longish hours involved, at least initially, you may not mind all that much — after all, it’s fun and something you’re passionate about. All true, of course, at least to a point.
When Bechtold says “3 simple steps,” he’s correct on one hand (they really aren’t rocket science), yet I wonder how many people’s idea of “simple step” includes “write book” or “write sales letter.”
Okay, so the simple steps aren’t quick steps necessarily, and getting them all done properly can take a while.
Then again, this isn’t a get-rich-quick book, but one on finding a way to make a living while pursuing your passions. Not that the possibility of riches isn’t also there, but the focus isn’t on rich so much as on fun. Making a comfortable living is definitely part of the plan though, so he’s got us covered there.
The three-step process is also not quite as tedious as it may seem at first. We’re given a number of short-cuts that do make things a whole lot easier than it would seem from the “write book” step.
In fact, writing that book can be a lot less work than you’d expect, and Bechtold provides the step-by-step instructions on possible ways to do it very quickly and easily, without much writing at all.
The instructions are embedded in an ongoing storyline, where we follow 3 cubicle slaves from their J-O-B-S to liberation as they turn their hobbies and passions into incomes. It makes for entertaining reading and it also makes the potentially abstract process really come to live. Especially when it comes to Jenny and her Strawbarbie Barbie doll custom clothes, who is the primary example and whose progress is spelled out in great detail.
Can it work? A particularly inspiring aspect of the book: several profiles of people who have actually successfully achieved their work for fun lifestyles. It shows that Bechtold’s system is not just theory but that it really can be done.
4 Stars Fun and informational
There is a growing number of books on online information marketing, but this one is unique in that it uses a real life example to illustrate his ideas. He takes you through the process of identifying your interests, passions and hobbies as well as determining if they are viable money-makers. Then he presents the steps to take it from idea to income.
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