Property News · September 30, 2017

From passion to profit: turn your hobby into a business


Earning money from doing what you love is something a lot of us aspire to. We speak to five people actually living the dreamWhen Hannah Dale was made redundant at the start of the 2007 financial crisis she was three months pregnant. “I had little money, my mother was diagnosed with cancer and soon I had a baby to look after,” she says. Her hobby, watercolour painting, gave her a much-needed feeling of release. “I could switch off my brain when I painted. It was therapeutic and relaxing.”She started selling her paintings to local shops in Lincolnshire, but discovered she was earning the equivalent of £1 an hour after costs and commissions. Then she realised she could make a lot more money if she printed her designs on greetings cards. “That was a lightbulb moment for me because it was scalable.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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