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You now feel the need to start a hustle on the side. But then you ask yourself, how do acquire a product to sell?

Well, there are basically two ways you can go about it. One, you create your own product and sell it. And two, sell others’ products.

*I am using the word “product” to refer to a product and service.

*In this post, we shall briefly cover the way no#1 – creating your own product.

* Way no#2 shall be covered in the next post.

Way No#1: Creating your own product

There are also two ways of creating your own product;

You can create a product on your own OR outsource the creative process to another party.

#1: Creating a product with your own “mind and hands”

There are thousands upon thousands of products you can create with “your own mind and hands”.

American-Romanian Physicist, Nicola Tesla, placed huge emphasis on employing the “mind” ahead of “hands” to creating a product. 

This is what he said;

“My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain” 

And I like it.

Bulleted below are examples of hustles you can directly create with your hands and mind.

• Produce cabbage through organic gardening
• Write an ebook
• Rear and supply pigs at your farm holding to slaughter houses
• Invent a device
• Create a computer game
• Prepare and sell food for children’s parties on weekends
• Freeze and mold ice cubes and blocks
• Run a carpet cleaning service after hours
• Outsource translation service for your translation firm from Fiverr.com
• And there are many more…

#2: Outsourcing the creative process of your side hustle product

It may be that you are held up at work or you have not technical skills to pull off the product you desire as your side hustle, leaving you with the option to outsource the service.

If you know exactly want and can design specifications for what you want, others can create products for you.

Below are examples of hustles whose creative process you can outsource.

• Use ghost writers to write your book. I have read somewhere on Wikipedia that some of Donald Trump’s books were actually written by ghost writers
• Hire a web developer to create SaaS product for you.
• Engage a factory in China or elsewhere to manufacture t-shirts for you
• Hire a chick incubation company to supply your side hustle with baby chickens

Thank you for reading.

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