Who is Chieh Huang? He side hustled his way to extraordinary financial freedom going from employee to entrepreneur. He took a leap of faith by doing the transformation business work out of inspiration or desperation. With a good paying job and doing quite well for himself working for someone else as a traditional employee working in the company, he had a futuristic mindset of running his own business. He understood the awesome power of the Internet, how marketing products and services to the masses online could create a new financial vacuum offering job opportunities, all while earning a handsome, hefty fortune for himself. He went about taking this leap of faith by not only severing ties with his cushy form of employment, but moving back in his parents house and starting a business off of a leap of faith out of his parents garage. The business that competes heavily with Amazon.com, BJs.com, and Costco.com today is known as Boxed.com. Huang started boxed out of his parents garage only making enough money for a yearly salary before hitting it big in three years time. Believe it or not, this was just a “side hustle.” He struggled just like anyone else to get his business off the ground from humble beginnings.
Are you walking around with a business idea in the back of your mind but haven’t yet made it a reality? Are you financially suppressed? Are you working paycheck to paycheck and sick of your employer treating you some type of way because you’re a peculiar person? Are you sick and tired of getting up and going to work in the morning with headaches and back problems? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Guess what? It doesn’t matter what your age is. It doesn’t matter what your education level is. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve been dumped or cheated on in past relationships. It doesn’t matter if you can’t fit in with people for whatever reason. It doesn’t matter if you’re overweight. It doesn’t matter if you’re super skinny. It doesn’t matter if you have acne or itchy skin. It doesn’t matter if you can’t see straight or quite clear and concise sentences. It doesn’t matter if you have sleep apnea. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t finish high school or college. It doesn’t matter whatever your status is. Whatever your status is today, you can use the power of the Internet from the comfort of your home, University, school or library to build a respected online business from scratch. All you need is ambition, humility, a willingness to change your current way of thinking, and most importantly, our long-term vision where you see yourself and your online side hustle in the next 5 to 10 years. If you’re sick and tired of being in employee and want to take power back from your employer and refuse to be in employee for the rest of your life retiring possibly on 30% pension or a 401(k) plan that possibly runs out after a few years, this might be your golden opportunity and time now to get your side hustle going and build your business online to achieving financial freedom and status of side hustle millionaire.
If you're sick and tired of being sick and tired and ready to take the leap of faith and going from day job employee to full-time Internet entrepreneur, follow these five simple steps for online business success:
1. Take a small portion of your earnings and invest in yourself by purchasing domain name and dedicated business web hosting: Blogger.com, Tumblr.com, Typepad.com and WordPress.com are great places to get yourself accustomed to blogging and forming healthy writing habits. The good thing about these networks is they’re absolutely free of charge to join. You can create, publish, then go back and edit your blog anytime of the day. Blogger even allows you to add affiliate advertisements in the sidebar, header or footer of your blog. The other aforementioned blog networks don’t to the best of this site’s knowledge. However, while you can publish it freely to your blog on those free blogging networks, it’s a good idea to always backup your content on your desktop computer or on a USB drive that you keep on your key ring and here’s why. Even if you publish content that is not objectionable and someone wants to be a hater and keep flagging your blog, especially if it’s someone that personally knows you, you’re free blog is now at risk of being deleted for practically no reason. This is why it’s important to back up every blog post you publish on a free blogging network. Once you get accustomed to blogging on a free network and feel you have what it takes in terms of keeping your writing ambition going, you can graduate to the next level of getting your own domain name and dedicated business web hosting “a paid service.”
2. Get more sleep: Sleep is a very important factor not just in keeping your energy levels up to par, but also keeping your thinking on track. Sleep not only helps to increase creative writing and creative thinking, but it also manages your weight and more. If you find yourself struggling with sleep, it’s a good idea to cut off food and drink at least 2 to 3 hours before heading to bed. This way, when you wake up in the morning off of a good night's rest, you can pray first thing in the morning and thank the good Lord Jesus for a new day. Always pray first thing in the morning upon awakening before starting your work day or doing anything throughout the day. After you’re done praying in the morning, then you can start your writing gig and get everything out in rough draft mode using Google.com/docs or Microsoft.com MSWord. A good night's rest will not only help you increase writing clarity, but create lengthy and informative content people will value years to come after finding your posts in Bing.com. Google and YaHoO.com. Afterwhile, you’ll slowly but surely notice that the more sleep you get, the more your ambition will increase to write more content not just every other day, but slowly graduating to creating and publishing content for your self hosted blog everyday. When you create more content for your self hosted WordPress blog on a daily basis, you attract search engines to index your content minutes after you publish it, putting you in the driver seat to earn hordes of free search engine traffic years to come. This is why it’s important to get a good night's rest and sleep more than four hours a day. Most importantly, being that you're steadfast mentally on making that transformation from employee to full-time entrepreneur working online from the comfort of your home or laptop anywhere on the Internet, you’re really going to need to get lots of sleep. This freelance industry requires you as an unwritten rule to have “lots and lots of energy,” in addition to blogging away to your heart's content by creating “lots and lots of content.”
3. Increase cardiovascular output on the treadmill and heavily engage in “fasted cardio”: Cardio is good. Most people only look at cardio as a means of losing weight and maintaining a lean body. Truth is, keeping your cardio up to snuff will not only help to keep your weight down and metabolism moving at virtual lightspeed, but it also does good for the mind. With consistent cardio, you can not only sleep better at night as one of many fringe benefits of staying on track with your physical health, but cardio can also increase your ambition to make that leap of faith-transformation from day job employee to full-time entrepreneur. But it starts with effort on your behalf. When you do cardio, not only will your ambition increase, but shall also lose weight slowly but surely, in addition to feeling more inclined to write and publish to your blog as a side hustle. As long as you do your cardio and retain a long-term vision for your side hustle to put you in the prominent position of transitioning from employee to full-time CEO, you’ll achieve your goals when least expected. Staying on track and doing the transformation workout of inspiration or desperation with your cardio creates spontaneous opportunity your mind can’t fathom. In other words, cardio and workouts will work out everything in overall beyond a reasonable doubt, while your pounds keep coming down. And most importantly, when you do fasted cardio which basically means no food or drink in your stomach before getting on the treadmill or stationary bike, after while, your mind and body will start to feel a natural euphoria that’ll really increase your mental turbo to invest more time into your entrepreneurial ventures online. This is why it pays as an unwritten rule to keep your cardio up to snuff.
4. Cut off toxic-unhealthy relationships with anyone including family members so you can think clearly: When your striving for excellence to turn your side hustle into your full-time gig, it’s not a good idea to tell too many people about it. Not everyone is in your corner supporting you, though they smile in your face. Some of phony people who smile in your face and stab you in the back are family members. You can’t go telling everyone about your dreams-passion, and you’re in Kent to go from employee to entrepreneur. Not only you are the likely to say things to discourage you from taking that leap of faith and achieving your goals of being a future online entrepreneur and future side hustle millionaire, but some of these people that are called your friends, family members, coworkers or someone you consider a trusted friend to confide in, these people will possibly turn on you. They don’t have your best interest at heart and will allegedly do what they can to bring you down. If you tell people on your job that you have a dream of starting your own business and looking to start soon, they may try to get you fired by starting things with you or spreading rumors. You may even be reported to your employer for wearing good smelling Cologne to work, using that as a means of having your employment terminated, thus not having the funds you need to make the transition from employee to entrepreneur and starting your online side hustle. If you notice family members or anyone close to you starting to act shady after you possibly told them about starting your own business or have already started your online business, be respectful in making the transformation of cutting them off. Don’t be rude about it in the beginning of severing the relationship. Do it slowly and stay humble. You don’t want anyone turning into a complete enemy and sabotaging your entrepreneurial progress. If family members switched up on you after you told him about starting a business, cut them off. You need time to yourself to think clearly and work on your business without negativity. Never mind the feelings you have for them. Seven that relationship and move forward with your business plans. Remember, the same people that switch up on you and take back their friendship and support are the same people that are standing in-your-face and come running back when they see you doing good with your business. The same people!
5. Get in the mindset of creating content often for your blog: When you’re starting out with blogging in the beginning, you may not know much about the importance of consistent content creation. Consistent creation of content for your blog in excess of 1500 words or more at least 5 to 6 days a week for three years will put you in the driver’s seat to make a successful transition to a full-time online entrepreneur-side Hustler. Getting in the mindset of consistent content creation at first will be a virtual uphill battle. Don’t think in the moment and just write a few sentences and publish to your blog. The reason why you don’t want to do that is because search engines rank your blog based on not just the quality of the content, but the legs of it as well. This is why it’s important to create the informative content for your blog that people will value for years to come. The more you create content consistently and stay in the long term mindset of creating content to empower people and not just the make money online 24 hours a day, you’ll achieve more than just making money and going from employee to entrepreneur. If your content is informative and you stay consistent with content marketing for your blog, people who read your blog posts and feel empowered by it will give you free advertising. They’ll give you free advertising by sharing links to you published blogs on Twitter.com, pinning on Pinterest.com, sharing your content on LinkedIn.com, YouTube.com and Facebook.com. This is free advertising for your blog that you don’t have to pay one red cent or one dollar for. This is why it’s important to stay in a consistent mindset of long-term content marketing. If you create and publish blogs about a particular topic you know about and never get tired of writing, this can be your 100% sole source of income to earning a good living online and never working a regular job ever again in life. Facts!
6. Be passionate about your business: Most people will start businesses, online or off-line, tend to lose their drive to achieve full-time entrepreneur status, likely to return to the day job scene. They surrender their power by going to work for an employer who pays them a virtual can of beans. They doubt their ability to prosper in online or off-line entrepreneurship and don’t want to take the risk by believing in themselves and doing the transformation business work. The beauty of the Internet is, once you own your own domain name and have a dedicated web hosting business plan intact, all you need to do is install WordPress on your dedicated Web server, pick a topic for your blog that’ll never get tired talking about, and get in that laser focused side hustle mindset. That laser-focus long-term side hustle mindset with the intention of achieving the future status of “side hustle millionaire.” If you’re one of many people that find yourself peculiar enough to not fit in with the average day job workforce crowd and feel your calling to entrepreneurship, just know in the back of your mind it’s never too late unleash your entrepreneurial passion and start your online side hustle “with no delay.” Getting organized is about taking passion, transforming it into a business, staying organized, and looking to the future by achieving your goals and making things consistently coming to fruition. Are you listening? Passion equals profits and unlimited business growth. If you believe in nothing yourself, it’s more than financially rewarding to get started now even in the most challenging time of your life. You can be passionate online with your business blog and still write like a dog at the same time. Even if you’re writing skills are not up 100% to perfection, keep writing.
7. Don’t expect to earn big bucks online for the first 2 to 3 years: This is where many people are likely to throw in the towel too soon. They know the Internet is a virtual gold mine for making money 24 hours a day. Many people think just because they start up online and start posting content right away, the big bucks automatically start coming in. That’s certainly not the case. Even though the online industry of freelancing can make anyone a side hustle millionaire, you still have to do the transformation business work out of inspiration or desperation by creating [lots and lots of content]. Doing the transformation work of creating lots and lots of content and engaging in long-term content marketing can put a person looking to start a side hustle in the driver's seat to earning big bucks in the next 2 to 3 years. In the meantime, you’re going to earn pennies on the dollar starting out from scratch. All you need to know is “affiliate marketing and blogging side hustles” are today’s new new stable employment. But you have to commit yourself wholeheartedly to making the Internet work by creating quality content for your blog. If you focus on creating quality content and not making big bucks online for the first couple of years and consistently create content for your blog without looking at the money aspect for a very good while, you’ll be able to earn quite decent money to the point of never having to punch the time clock, nor stand in line with other employees to login. Online freelancing-side hustles are the true test of your faith to see what you’re made of. Only the dedicated, ambitious entrepreneurs last in this line of work and showing the world who has the true “side hustle business muscle.”
8. Focus on relationships not the money: Creating quality content for people is bonding to your target blog reading audience. Your content starts a relationship with the blog readers who take time to view it. This is why it’s important not to write gibberish and establish your blogging business reputation through your unique style of writing. Many people tend to look at the financial aspect at first which is a huge mistake. The relationship is most important. Why? Relationships are what motivate people to keep coming back for more. If you create and publish stale content, people are going to share your content most likely and give you a bad reputation through word-of-mouth online. The end result of that is decreased possibility of earning ad revenue from ads alongside your blog content. You don’t want that. What you want to do is create quality content by valuing your blog readers to the point of keeping a positive relationship connected and sharing something useful with them through your published blogs. Besides, this is the whole purpose of your blogging side hustle, and turning your side hustle hopes and dreams into your full-time gig with the intent of going from employee to full-time CEO-entrepreneur.
'Side Hustling from Employee to Entrepreneur Requires Patience'
Hopefully, this post gave you something to think about. Remember, Rome wasn't built overnight. It doesn’t matter if you’re 60 or 70 years old and don’t have a pension. As long as you have a computer and an Internet connection or access to a computer from a public location and a desire to start an online business as a side hustle and growing it to your full-time money making gig, you can achieve it. It’s all in your mind. If you believe you could make the transformation from employee to entrepreneur and turn a side hustle into a business that’ll make you money decades from now, why not get started today? The only person holding you back is you and your way of thinking. Now’s the time to prove everyone wrong who’s doubting your ability to run a business and get that side hustle going.
Chieh Huang did it. So can you!