Some of the cool ideas you’re about to “meet” come from people in an international community of licensed Profiting From Your Passion® coaches.

I hope these ideas inspire you to find and grow your own income-generating idea!

• Get Paid to Share Your Love of Wine
• Get Paid to Imitate the Masters
• Get Paid to Bake Cookies

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Love turning people onto great wine? So did the couple who started a mobile in-home wine tasting service called Winebulance.

People looking for a fun way to learn about wine with their friends can schedule a knowledgeable Wine Consultant to show up at their home in a well-stocked van to educate the gathering on some of the company’s favorite wines.

Revenue comes from wine sales. But the main focus is on having local wine shops pay $2,500 to implement the business model in an exclusive territory. The shop owner can buy, lease, or rent the van.

Coincidentally one of the class exercises in the Profiting From Your Passion® coach training involves a Wine Educator.

The exercise asks students to come up with ways a wine educator could make money. I’m not going to give away all the answers. But here are a few examples to jog your thinking:

• train wait staff at new or established restaurant
• run wine tastings for vineyards
• run tours through wine country
• hold wine pairing events at restaurants

The exercise was inspired by a client who left her draining Silicon Valley job to pursue her love of wines. After re-locating to a less pricey part of California and taking a minimum wage job at a gourmet food and wine shop, the client earned her certificate as a wine educator.

Want to be a Wine Educator?

A quick search uncovered several Wine Educator programs in the UK and Australia.

In the US the Society of Wine Educators is one of several organizations that offer a self-study version with testing sites in various states. Other organizations, like the Culinary Institute of America offer live classes.

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No one actually paid high school senior Julia Reidhead to use acrylic paints to turn a second hand wedding dress into a beautiful Van Gogh inspired prom dress.

Instead the 18-year-old from Mesa, Arizona did it just for fun.

Building on That Idea

But that doesn’t mean Julia – or anyone with an artistic flair – couldn’t make money painting replicas of famous works of art!

You could paint custom lampshades, shower or window curtains, bed spreads, clothing, furniture, walls… virtually any surface.

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If you love to make cookies you could of course open a bake shop. But then you’d have all that overhead.

Instead why not launch a Cookies & Milk Delivery service like this one in Davis, California started by a philosophy major at UC Davis and his recently graduated girlfriend.

The couple bakes the cookies at a downtown commercial kitchen then delivers them still warm along with ice cold milk to their addicted fans.

Building on That Idea

Maybe you don’t live near a large university or aren’t keen on being in the delivery business or have employees?

I can imagine warm cookies and milk working well out of a food truck. If you’re a night person you could park the truck near a busy bar scene.

If you’re not a night owl then find someone who is. That way your asset – the truck – is still earning money while you sleep.

Bake in the morning. Then during lunch time take your cookie truck to playgrounds frequented by preschoolers and their caretakers or large office complexes. Afterward, head to a large high school to catch hungry teens just as school is letting out.

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Make Your Own %&#*#@ Job

Every summer there are millions of aimless teenagers who were unable to find a summer job. But not for lack of trying.

They filled out applications at the mall and at fast food restaurants. But no luck.

It simply never occurs to these teens – OR their parents – to MAKE A JOB.

• Wash cars
• Mow lawns
• Paint fences
• Babysit
• Clean garages
• Sweep the sidewalks in front of store fronts
• Design websites
• Teach adults how to use social media
• Refinish furniture
• Repair computers or lawn mowers

For instance, have you ever tried to find a lawn chair in August? The stores have already moved on to selling snow blowers!

Enter a local kid who used to snag discarded lawn chairs and reweave the seats. Every day he’d have 20 or more on display in front of his house selling at $7-$15 a pop.

In other words — Get Creative!

Can you blame these kids? After all, most adults are astonishingly uncreative about ways to make money that don’t involve getting a job-job.

In most industrialized countries people have lost the ability to connect the dots between a need and a solution we could provide in order to earn money.

Instead we’ve become a nation of occupational sheep.

And the old way is no longer working. So get creative people!

As George Eliot said, “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”

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An idea gives you direction. Without your own idea, you’re destined to watch others pursue their passion while your own life passes you by.

Over the span of 19 years, I’ve helped thousands of aspiring self-bossers just like you to connect the dots between what you love to do and how you can make money at it.

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Now for a limited time you can schedule a personalized Income Generation Idea and Action Planning Strategy Session for the significantly reduced price of just $499.

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Not sure what you love to do?

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Next, get out your calendar and call me at 413-535-5107 eastern time during normal business hours. I’ll do a brief intake and schedule your one hour session.

I’ve taken a lot of career assessment tools and they always end up telling me I’m creative – which I already knew – but they still leave me stumped as to what to DO with my creativity to actually make a living.

Valerie gave me a lot of good ideas that really made me think. She helped me see how many different possibilities there are in the world for us creative types.

Lynette Turner
Los Angeles, CA

I am still trying to catch my breath after our call! I am very satisfied with the way things went… You were giving me ideas, tips and resources until the second our call ended.

Bob Nelson
Chicago, IL

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