How to Earn Money Teaching Your Talent

Have a niche in singing or mechanics? AARP expert Kerry Hannon shares job search secrets on how to make money using natural talents.
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You need to have a hobby, skill, talent, or profession that can be shared or taught to others. Then start by looking for opportunities to teach it in the local

On countless occasions, you've likely said to yourself "I wish I knew how to do ______." Then, of course, life got in the way and you put it off until you could find the time. Maybe you wanted to become fluent in a language, learn a new instrument, start performing your house repairs, or a master a myriad of other skills. With the vast amount of knowledge online, you're now your only excuse. Here are the top ten most highly desired skills that you can teach yourself—and should.
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For someone who lives and breathes music, teaching it can be an awesome way to earn money doing what you love. In Becoming A Music Teacher: The Art of Sharing Your Talent, award-winning educator and founder of mikeslessons.com, Mike Johnston, will show you how to get started. Teaching music is a great way to monetize your musical knowledge, but it takes a lot more than raw information to effectively guide others. In this class, Mike will teach you the art of delivering information in a concise, actionable way that makes complex ideas easily digestible. You’ll learn techniques for engaging students and presenting information in a way that holds their attention while helping them actually retain what you teach them. You’ll also dig into the business end of teaching. Monetizing teaching is more complex than hanging up a sign in your local guitar center – Mike will cover how to find and keep paying students. If you want to share your passion for music with others and make money while doing it, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn how to do it the right way from world's #1 online drum teacher.

Good Idea: use your talents to sell a product and earn a little extra money. Big Problem: you don’t think you have any marketable talents. Didn’t you know that everyone has a talent? It’s true and I can prove it. Do you know how to speak your native language? You do? Great! You can earn […]
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"Live your passion. Do what you love. Help people. The rest takes care of itself." - Anonymous Important Context Note: The below is a free lesson from Live Your Legend's award-winning Live Off Your Passion Guided-Discovery career course. The lesson is part of one of our more advanced modules on "Profiting from Your Passion."  A lot of readers have been able to use the below actions to make at least some money from their passion within a day or two, no joke. I hope it helps... ******* Creating Money from Passion... I recently watched a 20/20 episode called Generation Youtube. I was so inspired I could hardly sleep. It was the ultimate adrenaline shot of what's possible. (Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the online recording of it anymore, but try Googling it and see if you have better luck - it's very worth your 38 minutes.) The show got me thinking, there are so many freakin' ways to make money from things that interest you. In fact, do you know what the most important ingredient

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